Geopoetics: Storytelling against mastery

Nassar, Aya

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“…A contributor to the ‘Disembodied Territories’ project, Nassar (2021: no PN), re-imagined mapping, space, power, and coloniality using poetry, as it is a ‘practice that is attuned to the political act of destabilising rather than shoring off self’ (see also Said, 1994, 1999). As Last (2017) illustrates, drawing on Ménil (1978), poetics can be a means of expressing concepts and can be critical ways of reaching new audiences providing a framework to address landscapes in new ways (see also, Megrane, 2021).…”

Section: A Creative (Re)turn To Landscape In Geographymentioning

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Reimagining landscape: Materiality, decoloniality, and creativity

Mason,

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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: A Creative (Re)turn To Landscape In Geographymentioning

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Reimagining landscape: Materiality, decoloniality, and creativity

Mason,

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2023

Progress in Human Geography

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“…Serres's hybrid texts fall within what is becoming known as the ‘geopoetic field’ (Magrane, 2021, p. 9) which aspires to perform ‘critical–creative work’ (Magrane, 2021, p. 10). Geopoetics, for Aya Nassar, might help academia to become, and to be seen as, ‘a playground’ (2021, p. 28), a place ‘to unthink mastery on the matter‐narrative threshold.’ (2021, p. 29). This is the essence of Serres.…”

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Michel Serres, ‘a legend for us to read our world,’ or just a geographer?

Hayes

2022

Geography Compass

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In pondering the purpose and relevance of the thought of the French philosopher, Michel Serres, this article surveys recent secondary literature about his works in geography, social science, literary and humanities subjects. Where they are thought to be helpful, the article includes some biographical details. It first discusses Serres's prescience as a philosopher of the ecological and climate crises and the Anthropocene. It then considers his democratization of knowledge and knowledge making by analysing aspects of his particular narrative style which was designed to both speak across academic disciplinary boundaries and communicate with wider demographics. Notable amongst the latter are the symbolic mythical, human and more-than-human stock characters that recurred in his thought, speech and writings. The article then gathers together the topographical features and locations which serve as metaphors in his works. Lastly, it considers Serres's legacy as a philosopher of the digital age.

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“…Discomfort is "a politically fertile affect" (Singh 2018, 152). I have been thinking with Julietta Singh's articulation of "cultivating discomfort" particularly as she reflects on it as an ambivalent relation to the material world we seek to master and order (Nassar 2020(Nassar , 2021Singh 2018). For Singh, who draws on Jamaica Kincaid and Sara Ahmed, discomfort is an inheritance; we find it in our histories, memories, and spaces.…”

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Geopoetics as Disruptive Aesthetics: Vignettes from Cairo

Nassar

2021

GeoHumanities

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In this paper, I perform an approach for a material and affective geography of the postcolonial city that is developed from within the spaces of Cairo and its archives. I propose storytelling the city through its geopoetics, where geopoetics emphasizes the elemental materiality of space. Taking inspiration from Angela Last (2017), geopoetics in this essay denotes disruptive aesthetics: intersection between word, aesthetics, and the geophysical materiality. This essay proceeds with a series of personal vignettes based on fieldwork in Cairo, Egypt. What if the narrative of downtown Cairo as a paradigmatic starting point in its history was explored through its consumption in fire? What if dust-the banal and irritating feature of the city is made central in probing its affective making and breaking? The essay is concerned with the ways through which we narrate and make meaning of this megacity of the Middle East. *** An aesthetics of the earth? In the half-starved dust of Africas? In the mud of flooded Asias? In epidemics, masked forms of exploitation, flies buzz-bombing the skeleton skins of children? In the frozen silence of the Andes? In the rains uprooting favelas and shantytowns? In the scrub and scree of Bantu lands? In flowers encircling necks and ukuleles? In mud huts crowning goldmines? In city sewers? In haggard aboriginal wind? In red-light districts? In drunken indiscriminate consumption? In the noose? The cabin? Night with no candle? Yes. But an aesthetics of disruption and intrusion. -Édouard Glissant, Poetics of RelationThis essay proceeds through a series of fragmented vignettes that I have accumulated along the process of thinking about Cairo as a postcolonial city. From the onset, I hope to undo the authoritative 'I propose' that inhabit the essay's introduction. The propositions I make aremore appropriately-a set of tangled practices that help me work through some discomforts GeoHumanities, 00(00) 2021, 1-9

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Geopoetics: Storytelling against mastery

Cited by 9 publications

References 11 publications

Reimagining landscape: Materiality, decoloniality, and creativity

Reimagining landscape: Materiality, decoloniality, and creativity

Michel Serres, ‘a legend for us to read our world,’ or just a geographer?

Geopoetics as Disruptive Aesthetics: Vignettes from Cairo

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