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SUMMARY:CCHG series: Political Geology Workshop - Andrew Barry (UCL)\, Nig
 el Clark (Lancaster)
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DESCRIPTION:The emerging interest in political geology within geography ha
 s opened up exciting possibilities for rethinking the intersections of geo
 logy with society and politics. While it has emerged in conversation with 
 the traditions of political ecology and geopolitics\, it lay its stress on
  the geological as such. It is about the rocks\, minerals\, crust\, and du
 st at the centre of politics and society. It looks at how they are wrapped
  together\, torn apart\, and set in motion through each other. It’s conc
 ern is with how lively geologies like volcanoes and earthquakes gather pol
 itical contestation and dreams around them\, how the cracks in stone walls
  fold in property law and the precarious careers of shady mayors. Geologis
 ts too are part of this story because they are political operators not onl
 y for energy companies and the extractive industries but also the neo-libe
 ral knowledge machines of universities. If they were the 19th century stor
 y tellers of the Terrans and the terrestrial long durée\, time-frame shat
 tering priests\, what myths of the earth do geologists tell today? How do 
 they and others carry rocks\, smuggle and transform them into pictures and
  maps\, the formation of groups\, make them public and fight over them? An
 d what of the practices that refuse to let rocks\, the ground\, our minera
 l brothers and sisters\, be dead\, but instead violent\, angry\, sometimes
  gentle but usually sneaky players in struggles against an all too human p
 olitics. Who lets the geos resist Man-the-Political-Animal surrounded by t
 he natural world like it’s a theatre backdrop? Political geology puts th
 e geos back in the geopolitics. It collapses the scenography and lets the 
 world in.
LOCATION:Seminar Room\, Department of Geography
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