Geography sculpts the future, or: escaping—and falling back into—the tyranny of absolute space

Mitchell, Don

doi:10.1080/00393274.2021.1916990

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“…‘Landscape rises from the dead’, Mitchell (2021: 147) observed recently. Historically pushed to the margins of the discipline, landscape has once again become a significant cultural thematic for geographers.…”

Section: What Does It Mean To Reimagine Landscape?mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This is a time in which geography as an academic discipline is confronting its colonial and racist pasts, and terms ubiquitous to geography, such as landscape, need to be interrogated within this necessary critical turn in the discipline. Geography requires for Mitchell (2021: 136), the ‘re-introduction of landscape’ as the key mediating spatial form. Landscape is increasingly being used to address larger questions central to the discipline.…”

Section: What Does It Mean To Reimagine Landscape?mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…We explore the work landscape is doing for geography in this article and consider how landscape could be put to work in decolonising geography. Landscape ‘sculpts the future’, as Mitchell (2021: 150) puts it, and landscape research today questions landscape to engage with intermeshing challenges in our contemporary socio-environmental epoch (see e.g. Brand, 2022).…”

Section: What Does It Mean To Reimagine Landscape?mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Mitchell (2021: 151) has recently argued for a return to landscape as the key mediating spatial form in geography, forcefully stating that ‘new futures are sculpted out of old landscapes’. Yet historically, as Dang (2021: 1004) sets out, ‘landscape has been used as a disciplinary tool to facilitate the control of land and to naturalise colonial hegemonies, including the cultural framing of art through art and architecture’.…”

Section: Decolonising Geography Through the Landscapementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Anti-racist, anti-colonial ecologies and geographies in landscape acknowledge the violence which results from the overlapping ills of colonialism, imperialism, and racial capitalism (see Tilley et al, 2022). This new landscape research acknowledges colonial, imperial and racial violence, which undermines the very ability of the landscape to support life (see Mitchell, 2021: 151). Landscape in our reading is more than an image or indeed a built environment.…”

Section: Decolonising Geography Through the Landscapementioning

confidence: 99%

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Reimagining landscape: Materiality, decoloniality, and creativity

Mason,

Riding

2023

Progress in Human Geography

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Geographers have been engaging with landscape since the beginning of the modern discipline of geography. A series of concurrent turns have taken place in human geography in recent years that are influencing the ways in which geographers approach landscape. We take forward new material, decolonial, and creative shifts in the discipline to reimagine landscape. Landscape is a geographical concept that has historically excluded a range of other voices and perspectives. To build a radically inclusive agenda for landscape research in geography, we put forward a generative conceptualisation of landscape that brings together (i) materiality; (ii) decoloniality; and (iii) creativity.

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Section: What Does It Mean To Reimagine Landscape?mentioning

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Section: What Does It Mean To Reimagine Landscape?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: What Does It Mean To Reimagine Landscape?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Decolonising Geography Through the Landscapementioning

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Section: Decolonising Geography Through the Landscapementioning

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Reimagining landscape: Materiality, decoloniality, and creativity

Mason,

Riding

2023

Progress in Human Geography

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Antinomies of the gig economy: The annihilation of space by time or the annihilation of time by space?

Butler,

Zampoukos,

Mitchell

2024

Population Space and Place

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This paper concerns migrants in Sweden working in various types of on and offline gig work. It explores how the temporal and spatial flexibility afforded to gig customers is predicated on temporal and spatial inflexibility for workers. The argument moves discussions beyond relational space by promoting a more fully dialectical view of space that understands it as simultaneously relational, relative, and absolute. Without such a view of space—which understands that space is not always open and fluid but just as often closed and fixed—it is impossible to understand the specific relations of labour that structure gig work, particularly offline gig work in such ways as to provide maximal flexibility for customers. This paper shows that the Marxian adage concerning how, in capitalism, space is annihilated by time, does not always hold. For workers doing cleaning and delivery gig work, the converse is oftentimes truer: time is annihilated by space. Gig workers—and even more so migrant gig workers crowded in the above‐mentioned industries—experience the annihilation of time by space through the dual mandate that they must be available “just‐in‐time” and “just‐in‐place” to produce the spatiotemporal flexibility upon which the gig companies base their model and their success.

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