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TY - JOUR
T1 - Politics of Strata
AU - Clark, Nigel Halcomb
N1 - The final, definitive version of this article has been published in the Journal, Theory, Culture & Society, 34 (2-3), 2017, © SAGE Publications Ltd, 2017 by SAGE Publications Ltd at the Theory, Culture & Society page: http://journals.sagepub.com/home/tcs on SAGE Journals Online: http://journals.sagepub.com/
PY - 2017/3
Y1 - 2017/3
N2 - Modern western political thought revolves around globality, focusing on the partitioning and the connecting up of the earth’s surface. But climate change and the Anthropocene thesis raise pressing questions about human interchange with the geological and temporal depths of the earth. Drawing on contemporary earth science and the geophilosophy of Deleuze and Guattari, this article explores how geological strata are emerging as provocations for political issue formation. The first section reviews the emergence – and eventual turn away from – concern with `revolutions of the earth’ during the 18-19thC discovery of `geohistory’. The second section looks at the subterranean world both as an object of `downward’ looking territorial imperatives and as the ultimate power source of all socio-political life. The third section weighs up the prospects of `earth system governance’. The paper rounds up with some general thoughts about the possibilities of`negotiating strata’ in more generative and judicious ways.
AB - Modern western political thought revolves around globality, focusing on the partitioning and the connecting up of the earth’s surface. But climate change and the Anthropocene thesis raise pressing questions about human interchange with the geological and temporal depths of the earth. Drawing on contemporary earth science and the geophilosophy of Deleuze and Guattari, this article explores how geological strata are emerging as provocations for political issue formation. The first section reviews the emergence – and eventual turn away from – concern with `revolutions of the earth’ during the 18-19thC discovery of `geohistory’. The second section looks at the subterranean world both as an object of `downward’ looking territorial imperatives and as the ultimate power source of all socio-political life. The third section weighs up the prospects of `earth system governance’. The paper rounds up with some general thoughts about the possibilities of`negotiating strata’ in more generative and judicious ways.
KW - geopolitics
KW - Deleuze and Guattari
KW - Anthropocene
KW - earth system governance
KW - vertical territory
KW - earth science
KW - geohistory
U2 - 10.1177/0263276416667538
DO - 10.1177/0263276416667538
M3 - Journal article
VL - 34
SP - 211
EP - 231
JO - Theory, Culture and Society
JF - Theory, Culture and Society
SN - 0263-2764
IS - 2-3
ER -