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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810815203321

Autore

Barry Andrew <1960->

Titolo

Material politics : disputes along the pipeline / / Andrew Barry

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, West Sussex : , : Wiley-Blackwell, , 2013

ISBN

1-118-52909-X

1-118-52910-3

1-118-52906-5

1-118-52912-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (260 p.)

Collana

RGS-IBS book series

Classificazione

SCI030000

Disciplina

320.1/2

Soggetti

Geopolitics

Materials - Political aspects

Material culture - Political aspects

Petroleum pipelines - Political aspects

International economic relations - Political aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Material Politics: Disputes Along the Pipeline; Copyright; Contents; Series Editors' Preface; Figures and Tables; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; Making Things Political; Governing Materials; An Experiment in Transparency and Responsibility; The Georgian Route; The Archive; Overview of the Chapters; 2 The Georgian Route: Between Political and Physical Geography; Political Fieldwork; Geopolitics, Oil, the Caucasus; Physical Geography; The Pipeline Regime; Conclusion: Political Knowledge; 3 Transparency's Witness; Resource Curse; Disclosure; Assembling Civil Society

A Public Experiment4 Ethical Performances; Ethics and Business; Ethics, Politics and the Logic of Abduction; Art, Research and Politics; Conclusions: Ethics and Knowledge Controversies; 5 The Affected Public; Disclosure; Affected Communities; Points and Corridors; A Disputed Public; Conclusions: From Affected Communities to Material Impacts; 6 Visible Impacts; Landslides; Vibration; Impact and Action; Circulations of Impact; 7 Material Politics; Metals; Politics; Itinerant Practices; 8 Economy and the Archive; Interference; Compensation



System; Accounting for Labour; Multiple Histories

9 ConclusionsGeopolitical Fieldwork; The Limits of Transparency; Material Politics; Coda; Notes; 1 Introduction; 2 The Georgian Route: Between Political and Physical Geography; 3 Transparency's Witness; 4 Ethical Performances; 5 The Affected Public; 6 Visible Impacts; 7 Material Politics; 8 Economy and the Archive; 9 Conclusions; References; Film, Television, Video and Photography; Documents, Reports and Publicity Material; Index

Sommario/riassunto

"Presents an original theoretical approach to political geography by revealing the paradoxical relationship between materials and politics"--