Back in the days when I was at school, we used to study a subject called ‘Human Geography’ which taught us all about mankind’s impact on the environment, in terms of the effects of creating and maintaining cities, industry and farmlands. Recently, the amused British media discovered there was an entirely new geographical subdiscipline now available to students instead, called ‘Inhuman Geography’, whose first known professor, Kathryn Yusoff, is currently employed at the (formerly) prestigious Queen Mary University of London.
Ironically, Yusoff appears to be a human herself, at least approximately so, but mocking media write-ups of her latest textbook for students, Geologic Life: Inhuman Intimacies and the Geophysics of Race, reveal she does not necessarily write like one. Her basic idea is that geology itself is racist, being linked indelibly to “white supremacy” as its earliest main theorists, like Sir Charles Lyell, were those dreaded white European Christian males of the pre-modern colonial era.
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