A resurgent interest in the geo has emerged as a central concern across human geography, critical international relations and social theory. At the same time, the geosciences are increasingly the focus of significant input of capital and expertise across the world. This has resulted in a suite of important research into the socio-political constitution of the geo, or earth, across a number of disciplines. Some of this work has been inspired by work on biopolitics to articulate envisaged energies and materialities of planet Earth. Other work has begun to recover interests in the ‘Geo’ from late nineteenth century geographical, anthropological and political thought, and examined their legacies for modern processes of discipline-formation. This has questioned the political consequences of earth-thinking. Further work has sought to investigate the socio-political provenance of issues such as climate change and the extraction of natural resources, and their imbrication within scientific controversies. Taken together, these competing discourses indicate a moment in which thinking about the Geo is undertaking rapid transformation in ways not seen since, at least, the late nineteenth century.

However, for a variety of reasons, these scholarly communities are rarely in dialogue. This proposal is for an intensive, interdisciplinary, residential workshop that will bring together leading figures and emerging voices to interrogate these issues. Attendees have been identified across the relevant disciplines, together with a number of possible alternates.