Aesthetics of Geopower
Contested Planetary Imaginaries
$195.50
- Hardcover
304 pages
- Release Date
31 January 2027
Summary
This volume attends to geopower: the forces, both human and nonhuman, that are shaping and emanating from the earth. In a present marked by planetary ecological derangement, escalating geopolitical competition, and growing resistance to extractive regimes, it theorises the ways in which geopower intersects with aesthetics, taken expansively to include operational imaging, sensed materiality and embodied perception.
Bringing together sixteen interdisciplinary specialists, the collectio…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781399562010 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1399562010 |
| Author: | Simon Ferdinand, Colin Sterling |
| Publisher: | Edinburgh University Press |
| Imprint: | Edinburgh University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 31 January 2027 |
| Dimensions: | 156mm x 234mm |
| Series: | Geotheory |
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Critics Review
A globally expansive yet creatively hopeful analysis of local strategies of resistance - many through art making - challenging the techniques of geological extraction and transformation inevitably remaking the earth and its underground, airborne and watery resources. This book makes clear that we need to radically rethink these relations to the earth. – Elizabeth Grosz, Duke University
Simon Ferdinand
Simon Ferdinand is a Veni Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Literary and Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam, where he writes on the politics and poetics of mapping and cultural visions of the whole earth. Simon is the author of a monograph, Mapping Beyond Measure: Art, Cartography, and the Space of Global Modernity (University of Nebraska Press, 2019), and coeditor of Heterotopia and Globalisation in the Twenty-First Century (Routledge, 2020) and Other Globes: Past and Peripheral Imaginations of Globalization (Palgrave, 2019). Alongside his research, which is currently funded by the Dutch Research Council, Simon runs English Academic Editing, which supports scholars preparing research for publication.
Colin Sterling is Senior Lecturer in Heritage, Museums and the Environment at the University of Amsterdam. His research explores the social, political and ecological dimensions of heritage and museums in the past and the present. He is the author of Heritage, Photography, and the Affective Past (Routledge, 2020) and co-editor of Deterritorializing the Future: Heritage in, of and after the Anthropocene (Open Humanities Press, 2020). Colin has published over fifty articles, essays, book chapters, reviews and other texts in peer-reviewed journals, edited volumes, exhibition catalogues and magazines. His research has been funded by – amongst others – the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council, Horizon Europe, the British Academy, and the Dutch Research Council. He is editor of the journal Museums & Social Issues.
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