ISBN:
9781478025054
,
9781478020073
Language:
English
Pages:
xx, 224 Seiten
,
Illustrationen, 1 Karte
Series Statement:
Political geology in Java
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Bobbette, Adam, 1980- Pulse of the earth
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Bobbette, Adam, 1980 - The pulse of the earth
Keywords:
Historical geology
;
Religion and science History 19th century
;
Geology History 19th century
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Asian Studies
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Java
;
Politische Geografie
Abstract:
"In The Pulse of the Earth Adam Bobbette tells the story of how modern theories of the earth emerged from the slopes of Indonesia's volcanoes. Beginning in the late nineteenth century, scientists became concerned with protecting the colonial plantation economy from the unpredictable bursts and shudders of volcanoes. Bobbette follows Javanese knowledge traditions, colonial geologists, volcanologists, mystics, Theosophists, orientalists, and revolutionaries, to show how the earth sciences originate from a fusion of Western and non-Western cosmology, theology, anthropology, and geology. Drawing on archival research, interviews, and fieldwork on Javanese volcanoes and in scientific observatories, he explores how Indonesian Islam shaped the theory of plate tectonics, how Dutch colonial volcanologists learned to see the earth in new ways from Javanese spiritual traditions, and how new scientific technologies radically recast notions of the human body, distance, and the earth. In this way, Bobbette decenters the significance of Western scientists to expand our understanding of the evolution of planetary thought and rethinks the politics of geological knowledge"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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