Adam Bobbette
Biographic Data
| ID | 995340 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adam Bobbette |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adam |
| FAMILY NAME | Bobbette |
| SIGNATURE | BOBBETTE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Glasgow |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9014-5726 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Notes on the politics of political geology
No abstract available
Unstable Grounds: Volcanology, Politics, and Knowledge in the Twentieth Century
This Focus section introductory essay makes a case for new histories of volcano science. While studies of individual volcanoes are pervasive and well known, the twentieth-century history of volcanology remains largely written by practitioners. The essays in this focus section—written by scholars with specialisms in the history of science, the environment, culture, agriculture, and geography—draw out the wider significance of volcano science in a …
The Political Geology of Volcanology: Starting from Indonesia
In this essay I outline core themes in the political geology of twentieth-century volcano science. The essay explores volcano science at the intersection of cross-disciplinary preoccupations with the role of the earth sciences in shaping the social and environmental crises of the present and how to find a way out of them. The essay then turns to volcanology in Indonesia at the turn of the twentieth century to destabilize persistent narratives in …
Priests in the observatory: Rethinking climate science and religion in a warming world
This essay considers the possibilities of re-thinking what a climate change observatory might be. Rather than reproducing science as usual, climate change observatories assembled with faith institutions, might open new potential for experimental environmental knowledge practices. The essay examines these ideas through an account of an experimental environmental observatory based in churches in the Solomon Islands
New Earth Histories: Geo-Cosmologies and the Making of the Modern World
Geopoetics
This article presents an alternative political history of recent planetary thought through an examination of geopoetics rooted in the colonial politics of Indonesia and Cold War geosciences. This history reveals how geopoetics has not been marginal or critical of dominant scientific narratives but has been central to the development of modern theories of the earth. The article traces the roots of that history in colonial Indonesia through debates…
Decolonizing Geology: A Discussion
Decolonizing geology was a discussion held on July 3, 2020, hosted by the New Earth Histories Research Program at the University of New South Wales. It was moderated by Adam Bobbette and included Ruth Gamble (La Trobe University), Cin-Ty Lee (Rice University), and Christopher Wilson (Flinders University). The discussion was about how researchers from different fields—history, earth sciences, and archeology—understand the relationship between geol…
Political Geology: Active Stratigraphies and the Making of Life
Political Geology: An Introduction
Priests on the Shore: Climate Change and the Anglican Church of Melanesia
This paper argues that discourses of climate change in the Solomon Islands are being significantly shaped by legacies of Anglican conversion. To understand how climate change is made meaningful therefore means being attentive to the histories and geographies of conversion. Climate change in the Solomon Islands is not only a physical process but a negotiation between new material realities and a Christian cosmos. This paper demonstrates how climat…
Political Geology: Active Stratigraphies and the Making of Life
Contortions of the unconsolidated: Hong Kong, landslides and the production of urban grounds
This paper makes a case for the analysis of urban grounds as urbanizing agents at the intersections of the material and cultural. Through a case study of four decades of landslide management in Hong Kong, it casts new light on the role of urban nature as a participant in the generation of urban forms and conceptions of city life. It demonstrates the active role of anticipation, its differential distribution and materialization through a close stu…
Decolonizing Geology: A Discussion
Decolonizing geology was a discussion held on July 3, 2020, hosted by the New Earth Histories Research Program at the University of New South Wales. It was moderated by Adam Bobbette and included Ruth Gamble (La Trobe University), Cin-Ty Lee (Rice University), and Christopher Wilson (Flinders University). The discussion was about how researchers from different fields—history, earth sciences, and archeology—understand the relationship between geol…
New Earth Histories: Geo-Cosmologies and the Making of the Modern World
Contortions of the unconsolidated: Hong Kong, landslides and the production of urban grounds
This paper makes a case for the analysis of urban grounds as urbanizing agents at the intersections of the material and cultural. Through a case study of four decades of landslide management in Hong Kong, it casts new light on the role of urban nature as a participant in the generation of urban forms and conceptions of city life. It demonstrates the active role of anticipation, its differential distribution and materialization through a close stu…
Priests on the Shore: Climate Change and the Anglican Church of Melanesia
This paper argues that discourses of climate change in the Solomon Islands are being significantly shaped by legacies of Anglican conversion. To understand how climate change is made meaningful therefore means being attentive to the histories and geographies of conversion. Climate change in the Solomon Islands is not only a physical process but a negotiation between new material realities and a Christian cosmos. This paper demonstrates how climat…
Contortions of the unconsolidated: Hong Kong, landslides and the production of urban grounds
This paper makes a case for the analysis of urban grounds as urbanizing agents at the intersections of the material and cultural. Through a case study of four decades of landslide management in Hong Kong, it casts new light on the role of urban nature as a participant in the generation of urban forms and conceptions of city life. It demonstrates the active role of anticipation, its differential distribution and materialization through a close stu…
Political Geology: Active Stratigraphies and the Making of Life
Political Geology: Active Stratigraphies and the Making of Life
Political Geology: An Introduction
Priests on the Shore: Climate Change and the Anglican Church of Melanesia
This paper argues that discourses of climate change in the Solomon Islands are being significantly shaped by legacies of Anglican conversion. To understand how climate change is made meaningful therefore means being attentive to the histories and geographies of conversion. Climate change in the Solomon Islands is not only a physical process but a negotiation between new material realities and a Christian cosmos. This paper demonstrates how climat…
Decolonizing Geology: A Discussion
Decolonizing geology was a discussion held on July 3, 2020, hosted by the New Earth Histories Research Program at the University of New South Wales. It was moderated by Adam Bobbette and included Ruth Gamble (La Trobe University), Cin-Ty Lee (Rice University), and Christopher Wilson (Flinders University). The discussion was about how researchers from different fields—history, earth sciences, and archeology—understand the relationship between geol…
Priests in the observatory: Rethinking climate science and religion in a warming world
This essay considers the possibilities of re-thinking what a climate change observatory might be. Rather than reproducing science as usual, climate change observatories assembled with faith institutions, might open new potential for experimental environmental knowledge practices. The essay examines these ideas through an account of an experimental environmental observatory based in churches in the Solomon Islands
New Earth Histories: Geo-Cosmologies and the Making of the Modern World
Geopoetics
This article presents an alternative political history of recent planetary thought through an examination of geopoetics rooted in the colonial politics of Indonesia and Cold War geosciences. This history reveals how geopoetics has not been marginal or critical of dominant scientific narratives but has been central to the development of modern theories of the earth. The article traces the roots of that history in colonial Indonesia through debates…
Unstable Grounds: Volcanology, Politics, and Knowledge in the Twentieth Century
This Focus section introductory essay makes a case for new histories of volcano science. While studies of individual volcanoes are pervasive and well known, the twentieth-century history of volcanology remains largely written by practitioners. The essays in this focus section—written by scholars with specialisms in the history of science, the environment, culture, agriculture, and geography—draw out the wider significance of volcano science in a …
The Political Geology of Volcanology: Starting from Indonesia
In this essay I outline core themes in the political geology of twentieth-century volcano science. The essay explores volcano science at the intersection of cross-disciplinary preoccupations with the role of the earth sciences in shaping the social and environmental crises of the present and how to find a way out of them. The essay then turns to volcanology in Indonesia at the turn of the twentieth century to destabilize persistent narratives in …
Notes on the politics of political geology
No abstract available
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