Material Politics: Disputes Along the Pipeline

In Material Politics, author Andrew Barry reveals that aswe are beginning to attend to the importance of materials inpolitical life, materials has become increasingly bound up with theproduction of information about their performance, origins, andimpact.

• Presents an original theoretical approach to politicalgeography by revealing the paradoxical relationship betweenmaterials and politics
• Explores how political disputes have come to revolve not aroundobjects in isolation, but objects that are entangled in evergrowing 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 corporatesocial responsibility - and its wide-spread negativepolitical impact
• Capitalizes on the growing interdisciplinary interest, especially within geography and social theory, about the criticalrole of material artefacts in political life