Amenity migrants, animals and ambivalent natures: More-than-human encounters at home in the rural residential estate

Gillon, Charles

doi:10.1016/j.jrurstud.2014.09.005

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“…Wilson's () research on enlivening and depleting encounters with unfamiliar others in spaces of transit is exemplary, building on earlier work by Laurier and Philo (), who explore the political possibilities of “light touch” contact with strangers. Others have attended to unexpected encounters in the home created through the mobility of non‐human others (Gillon, ). The second concerns encounters over distance (Conradson & McKay, ).…”

Section: Mobilising Disorientationmentioning

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Disoriented geographies: Undoing relations, encountering limits

Bissell

Gorman‐Murray

2019

Trans Inst British Geog

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This paper develops the concept of disorientation as a constitutive but overlooked dimension of mobile life, and it explores the significance of disorientation for geographical thought. Conceptually, the paper argues that disorientation is a productive geographical concept for acknowledging how, at times, bodies can lose their orienting relations to other bodies, to actions, and to situations. These losses are explored through the themes of incomprehension, confusion, and disintegration, respectively. Substantively, through research with mobile worker households in Australia, the paper expands our understanding of geographies of mobility by interrogating non-traditional but increasingly common living scenarios created by intensified mobility. Methodologically, the paper develops a narrative approach to presenting the richly complex experiences of "left behind" mobile worker partners through impressionistic interview portraits. Disciplinarily, contributing to ongoing debates in geography on relationality and encounter, the paper provides a counterbalance to the dominant focus on relation construction, and it opens up space for thinking differently about what, exactly, is being encountered in disorienting experiences. that helped to sharpen our argument. A previous version of this paper was presented at the Department of Geography and Earth Sciences at Aberystwyth University and we are grateful to the seminar attendees for their useful comments. ORCID David Bissellhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-0964-186X

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Section: Mobilising Disorientationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Disoriented geographies: Undoing relations, encountering limits

Bissell

Gorman‐Murray

2019

Trans Inst British Geog

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“…Viewing homemaking as more-than-human exposes collaboration with, and resistance to, human intentions (see Ginn, 2014; Head and Muir, 2006; Hitchings, 2003). Studies attentive to animals and plants have shown how encounters are filtered through moral classifications of belonging: whether in attachment to companion animals (Power, 2009b) or native animals and plants that are portended to belong in home spaces (Gillon, 2014; Head and Muir, 2006; Power, 2009a); or detachment from ‘uncomfortable’ companions that subvert and disgust (Ginn, 2014). In spite of this human ordering, in practice nonhumans are shown to be ‘creative presences’ (Whatmore, 2002: 35), lively, inventive, and ‘recalcitrant’ (Braun, 2008) to prescribed regimes of belonging.…”

Section: Home Cultures Of Nature and More-than-human Homemakingmentioning

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“…Power (2009bPower ( : 1031 discusses the more-than-human home as a 'distributed and processual' achievement between humans, nonhumans, and materials: 'irrevocably bound to the various affordances and capacities of the materials, objects, animals and rhythms that inhabit and shape the house-as-home, as it is to the capacities, rhythms and cultures of the human resident'. At home the cast of actors includes, but is not limited to, 'native' animals (Power, 2009a;Gillon, 2014) and plants (Head and Muir, 2006), and also to things less furry, planty, and plainly obvious: for example, slugs (Ginn, 2014), water (Kaika, 2004), and those that are miniscule and invisible: decaying forces and chemical reactions (Edensor, 2011;Power, 2009b).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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“…By way of example we examine how houses in coastal places are composed and sustained, through close attention to homemaking practices, materials, and economic rationalities. To grasp the lived, everyday negotiation of coastal conditions, we draw on cultural geographies of home that recognise homemaking as a more-than-human endeavour: as imagined , in Western domestic cultures that see home as a site for fastidiously masking, controlling, and excluding certain forms of nature (Davison, 2016; Dowling and Power, 2013; Gillon and Gibbs, 2018; Kaika, 2004); and as lived and practiced , in recognising and following more-than-human encounters at home that work with and against prominent domestic imaginaries (Gillon, 2014; Ginn, 2014; Head and Muir, 2006; Hitchings, 2003; Power, 2009a). In this paper these encounters are given voice by way of house design, material selection, and the everyday maintenance work that residents undertake so a coastal home can endure in place.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Coastal homemaking: Navigating housing ideals, home realities, and more-than-human processes

Gillon

Gibbs

2018

Environ Plan D

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As urban populations expand, high natural amenity locales-forests, bushland, and coasts-are being transformed into highly desired, lucrative locations for new housing. This paper examines what it means to live in such an environment, tallying between the realised dream of that lifestyle and the everyday challenges (financial and labour) of navigating the elements at home. To do so, we bring two conceptual approaches into conversation: cultural geographies of home and homemaking, recognising home as a more-than-human process; and architecturally inflected geographies of buildings, attendant to building materials and socio-technical practices of maintenance and repair. Drawing on semi-structured walking interviews with 24 residents of a new coastal housing development in southern Sydney, Australia, the paper examines how coastal conditions and elements accelerate material decay, inciting and directing everyday homemaking practices: both proactive, in material selection, and reactive, in cleaning, repairing, maintaining, and replacing. We conclude by considering the differing economic rationalities of navigating the elements, and subsequent implications for household sustainability.

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“…While it is important to attend critically to the manner in which we, as researchers, represent the empirical realities that we work in and with, it would be a conceptual regression to, for example, throw out the baby of detailed commodity chain and network analysis with the bathwater of (so‐called) partial and static representations that may in some ways be redolent of structuralist political economy. Other research that has adopted a relational, ‘more‐than‐human’ ontology to rural geography topics in Australia over the review period can be found in Gillon () in relation to rural residential developments and Phillips's () discussion of the agronomic and economic significance of bees.…”

Section: Farming and Regional Development In An Era Of Multifunctionamentioning

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Australasian Rural Geographies: At the Core, in the Antipodes?

Argent

2015

Geographical Research

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This paper reviews ‘Antipodean’ rural geography research published over the period 2012–2014 inclusive. A broad, inclusive stance was adopted to what should be regarded as Antipodean rural geography. Key publication outlets were identified and scanned for what were deemed to be relevant paper titles and abstracts, then the institutional and disciplinary affiliations of authors, bearing in mind a general concern for ‘rural issues’. The review concentrates on the prominent themes of the recent mining boom and its externalities, new perspectives on agrarian and regional development, and population issues. Australasian rural geographers have not only become adept at ‘writing back’ to the centre but have played leading roles in the intellectual development of the sub‐discipline and cognate areas (e.g. rural sociology). Indeed, at least in the short period covered by this review and in the admittedly selective scope of that survey, Australian and New Zealand rural geographers have been at the forefront in advancing the sub‐discipline internationally. In doing so, they have not only placed the discussion of Australasian rural issues within a global context but have further refined the philosophical and conceptual approaches and tools used. In important respects, then, Australasian rural geographers are very much at the core of the international project of contemporary rural geography. Moreover, they have made – and continue to make – important contributions to the broader discipline of human geography.

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Amenity migrants, animals and ambivalent natures: More-than-human encounters at home in the rural residential estate

Cited by 18 publications

References 48 publications

Disoriented geographies: Undoing relations, encountering limits

Disoriented geographies: Undoing relations, encountering limits

Coastal homemaking: Navigating housing ideals, home realities, and more-than-human processes

Australasian Rural Geographies: At the Core, in the Antipodes?

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