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....<<<Read More>>>...
