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Materialist returns: practising cultural geography in and for a more-than-human world
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This paper surveys the return to materialist concerns in the work of a new generation of cultural geographers informed by their engagements with science and technology studies and performance studies, on the one hand, and by their worldly involvements in the politically charged climate of relations between science and society on the other. It argues that these efforts centre on new ways of approaching the vital nexus between the bio (life) and the geo (earth), or the ‘livingness’ of the world, in a context in which the modality of life is politically and technologically molten. It identifies some of the major innovations in theory, style and application associated with this work and some of the key challenges that it poses for the practice of cultural geography. Thinking is neither a line drawn between subject and object nor a revolving of one around the other. Rather thinking takes place in the relationship of territory and earth... involving a gradual but thorough displacement from text to territory.1
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- Authors
- Whatmore, S.
- Venue
- cultural geographies
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2006-10
- Volume
- 13
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 600-609
- ISSN
- 0967-4608 (ISSN-L)
- 1474-4740
- 1477-0881
- OpenAlex
- W2054351251
- Cited by
- 1,219
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 249.31
- Type
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- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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