ISBN:
9781786600134
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (303 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Series Statement:
Geopolitical Bodies, Material Worlds Series
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
304.2
Keywords:
Environmental geography-Case studies
;
Geopolitics-Case studies
Abstract:
Provides a focus on the planet's elements, environments, and edges, to extend our understanding of territory to the dynamic, contentious spaces of contemporary politics.
Abstract:
Territory Beyond Terra -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- Part I: Elements Preface -- 2 Earth | A Grain of Sand Against a World of Territory: Experiences of Sand and Sandscapes in China -- 3 Air | Spacing the Atmosphere: The Politics of Territorialising Air -- 4 Water | Order and the Offshore: The Territories of Deep-Water Oil Production -- 5 Fire | Pyropolitics for a Planet of Fire -- Part II: Environments Preface -- 6 Mudflats | Fluid Terrain: Climate Contestations in the Mudflats of the Bolivian Highlands -- 7 Floodplains | Where Sheets of Water Intersect: Infrastructural Culture - From Flooding to Hydropower in Winnipeg, Manitoba -- 8 Cities | Mare Magnum: Urbanisation of Land and Sea -- 9 Ice | Placing Territory on Ice: Militarisation, Measurement and Murder in the High Arctic -- Part III: Edges Preface -- 10 Bodies | The Body of the Drowned: Convicts and Shipwrecks -- 11 Boats | Settler Colonial Territorial Imaginaries: Maritime Mobilities and the "Tow-Backs" of Asylum Seekers -- 12 Shores | Sharks, Nets and More-Than-Human Territory in Eastern Australia -- 13 Seabeds | Sub-Marine Territory: Living and Working on the Seafloor During the Sealab II Experiment -- References -- Index -- About the Authors.
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