1st Edition
by Andrew Barry (Author)
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
