Edited with text by Sascha Mikloweit. Text by Saima Ashipala, Paul Basu, Charmaine Gamxamus, Johannes Giebel, Elizabeth Grosz, Maria-Oo Haihambo, Selby Hearth, et al.
Rock by rock, this dazzling volume invites us to engage with a progressively nuanced reading of geology’s history and its lasting colonial legacy
Upending the traditional institutional trope of minerals neatly organized in glass cabinets, Transpositional Geologies discards traditional scientific classification and instead focuses on each specimen’s sociopolitical properties of extraction, destruction and dispossession.
STATUS: Forthcoming | 10/7/2025
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Published by Kerber. Edited with text by Sascha Mikloweit. Text by Saima Ashipala, Paul Basu, Charmaine Gamxamus, Johannes Giebel, Elizabeth Grosz, Maria-Oo Haihambo, Selby Hearth, et al.
Rock by rock, this dazzling volume invites us to engage with a progressively nuanced reading of geology’s history and its lasting colonial legacy
Upending the traditional institutional trope of minerals neatly organized in glass cabinets, Transpositional Geologies discards traditional scientific classification and instead focuses on each specimen’s sociopolitical properties of extraction, destruction and dispossession.
