Down to Earth: Geosocialities and Geopolitics

• Published in: Environmental Humanities
• Main Authors: Pálsson, Gísli, Swanson, Heather Anne
• Other Authors: Félags- og mannvísindadeild (HÍ), Faculty of Social and Human Sciences (UI), Félagsvísindasvið (HÍ), School of Social Sciences (UI), Háskóli Íslands, University of Iceland
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Duke University Press 2016
• Subjects: Geosociality; Geopolitics; Salmon; Biomineralization; Volcanoes; Lava; Nature culture; Landfræðistjórnmál; Lax; Eldfjöll; Hraun; Menning; Arctic; Cadena; Iceland
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11815/292; https://doi.org/10.1215/22011919-3664202

“Nature” and “social life” tended to be separated by Enlightenment thinkers, setting the stage for a long-standing tension between geology and social-cultural theory. Such a division suppressed the liveliness that humans have often attributed to material things. Several scholars and artists, many of...