Material politics : disputes along the pipeline
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Material politics : disputes along the pipeline
(RGS-IBG book series)
Wiley Blackwell, 2013
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 202-234) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In Material Politics, author Andrew Barry reveals that as we are beginning to attend to the importance of materials in political life, materials has become increasingly bound up with the production of information about their performance, origins, and impact.
Presents an original theoretical approach to political geography by revealing the paradoxical relationship between materials and politics
Explores how political disputes have come to revolve not around objects in isolation, but objects that are entangled in ever growing quantities of information about their performance, origins, and impact
Studies the example of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline - a fascinating experiment in transparency and corporate social responsibility - and its wide-spread negative political impact
Capitalizes on the growing interdisciplinary interest, especially within geography and social theory, about the critical role of material artefacts in political life
Table of Contents
Series Editors' Preface viii
List of Figures and Tables ix
Acknowledgements x
Abbreviations xiii
1 Introduction 1
2 The Georgian Route: Between Political and Physical Geography 31
3 Transparency ' s Witness 57
4 Ethical Performances 75
5 The Affected Public 95
6 Visible Impacts 116
7 Material Politics 137
8 Economy and the Archive 154
9 Conclusions 177
Notes 187
References 202
Index
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