EAN: 9783735609717

Bilder-Quelle: averdo

If you enter an institutional mineralogical collection you typically encounter glass cabinets organized by classification systems according to material properties. Yet each mineral carries with it a history of extraction destruction (dis)possession and global relations. Transpositional Geologies localizes such collections as indices of the afterlife of colonialism and proposes an evolving political geology reading mineral specimens as objects of "culture" rather than of "nature." Capturing his five-year artistic engagement and cultural collaboration in Namibia and Germany Sascha Mikloweit brings together international voices from fields including anthropology critical theory geology history museum studies philosophy poetry public administration-and the perspectives of boltwoodite cerussite or smithsonite. Rock by rock this exquisitely designed volume invites us to engage with a progressively nuanced reading of geology's history: its epistemic violence omissions and racial regimes and how the lasting residues of its colonial legacies continue to shape our present-day extractive realities.

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