PhD: Geosocial Worlds & Territorial Politics in Latin America

What does it mean to live with the Earth and not simply on it? Join this PhD exploring geosocial worlds in Latin America.

Geological processes are often treated as background conditions to human life: inert and lifeless subterranean realms of rock, magma, tectonic plates, or mineral formations are often conceived as static objects rather than dynamic sociopolitical forces. Yet recent debates in geological anthropology invite us to think differently and consider how geologies are intrinsically entangled with histories and lived realities of inequality, violence, and resistance.

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Drawing on recent debates in geological anthropology, this PhD project will explore how geologies can be approached as active constituents of everyday life in Latin America. It interrogates the knowability and unknowability of underground realms by examining how histories of power and forms of violence are embedded in Earth's...