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Materialist returns: practising cultural geography in and for a more-than-human world

Materialist returns: practising cultural geography in and for a more-than-human world This paper surveys the return to materialist concerns in the work of a new generationof cultural geographers informed by their engagements with science and technologystudies and performance studies, on the one hand, and by their worldly involvementsin the politically charged climate of relations between science and society on theother. It argues that these efforts centre on new ways of approaching the vitalnexus between the bio (life) and the geo (earth), or the‘livingness’ of the world, in a context in which the modality oflife is politically and technologically molten. It identifies some of the majorinnovations in theory, style and application associated with this work and some ofthe 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 onearound the other. Rather thinking takes place in the relationship of territory andearth... involving a gradual but thorough displacement from text to territory.1 http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Cultural Geographies SAGE

Materialist returns: practising cultural geography in and for a more-than-human world

Cultural Geographies , Volume 13 (4): 10 – Oct 1, 2006

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1474-4740
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1477-0881
DOI
10.1191/1474474006cgj377oa
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Abstract

This paper surveys the return to materialist concerns in the work of a new generationof cultural geographers informed by their engagements with science and technologystudies and performance studies, on the one hand, and by their worldly involvementsin the politically charged climate of relations between science and society on theother. It argues that these efforts centre on new ways of approaching the vitalnexus between the bio (life) and the geo (earth), or the‘livingness’ of the world, in a context in which the modality oflife is politically and technologically molten. It identifies some of the majorinnovations in theory, style and application associated with this work and some ofthe 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 onearound the other. Rather thinking takes place in the relationship of territory andearth... involving a gradual but thorough displacement from text to territory.1

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Cultural GeographiesSAGE

Published: Oct 1, 2006

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