Geologic Life: Inhuman Intimacies and the Geophysics of Race

In Geologic Life, Kathryn Yusoff theorizes the processes by which race and racialization emerged geologically. Examining both...
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Geologic Life: Inhuman Intimacies and the Geophysics of Race by Yusoff, Kathryn

Geologic Life: Inhuman Intimacies and the Geophysics of Race

BD$87.99

Geologic Life: Inhuman Intimacies and the Geophysics of Race

BD$87.99
Author: Kathryn Yusoff
Format: Paperback
Language: English
In Geologic Life, Kathryn Yusoff theorizes the processes by which race and racialization emerged geologically. Examining both the history of geology as a discipline and ongoing mineral and resource extraction, Yusoff locates forms of imperial geology embedded in Western and Enlightenment thought and highlights how it creates anti-Black, anti-Indigenous, and anti-Brown environmental and racial injustices. Throughout, she outlines how the disciplines of geology and geography---and their conventions: surveying, identifying, classifying, valuing, and extracting-established and perpetuated colonial practices that ordered the world and people along a racial axis. Examining the conceptualization of the inhuman as political, geophysical, and paleontological, Yusoff unearths an apartheid of materiality as distinct geospatial forms. This colonial practice of geology organized and underpinned racialized accounts of space and time in ways that materially made Anthropocene Earth. At the same time, Yusoff turns to Caribbean, Indigenous, and Black thought to chart a parallel geologic epistemology of the "earth-bound" that challenges what and who the humanities have chosen to overlook in its stories of the earth. By reconsidering the material epistemologies of the earth as an on-going geotrauma in colonial afterlives, Yusoff demonstrates that race is as much a geological formation as a biological one.

Author: Kathryn Yusoff
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 05/10/2024
Pages: 608
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.77lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.23d
ISBN: 9781478030300

About the Author
Kathryn Yusoff is Professor of Inhuman Geography at Queen Mary University of London and author of A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None.

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