Introduction to special issue on critical physical geography

Lave, Rebecca

doi:10.1177/0309133315608006

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“…Some of the most vocal critics of ESS and its ways of knowing, representing, and intervening in earth‐society relations come from (critical) human geography, where there is a long tradition of focusing on the topics that ESS backgrounds: to expose the role of power and value choices in the history of human interaction with earth systems. However, this central focus on the very things ESS omits—human agency, and the ways social/political contexts shape choices in how to respond to environmental changes—has, historically, been combined with insufficient attention to the ‘material roots’ of the resulting socio‐environment, i.e., the role(s) played by the physical environment in societal changes . Reflecting an awareness of this imbalance, a ‘material turn’ or ‘renaturalization’ in the social sciences in general and critical human geography in particular has been unfolding since the early 1990s as an attempt to redress the lack of attention to the physical environment.…”

Section: Ess and Its Criticsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The categories and the classification are inspired by Guba and Lincoln and Patterson and Williams . Castree argues that critical human geographers adopt a position in between both fields: ontological objectivity and epistemological subjectivity. In socio‐hydrology social processes are reduced to (quantitative or qualitative) measurable variables; in hydrosocial research natural factors are viewed as (political) constructs and contextual to societal developments.…”

Section: Toward Meaningful Conversations About Watermentioning

confidence: 99%

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Socio‐hydrology and hydrosocial analysis: toward dialogues across disciplines

2016

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In this study, we review the ways in which water has recently been conceptualized by both natural and social scientists as either hydro-social or sociohydrological. We do this in order to discuss whether and how they can be compatible, in order to enable dialogue across disciplines that seek to address the ecological and social challenges related to the complex human/ water interactions. Through our review, we document the emergence of these specific terminologies, identify how these terms-and the conceptualizations they represent-relate to each other, and suggest what opportunities there are for building further interdisciplinary approaches to understanding water and society. Specifically, we review the recent rise in socio-hydrology amongst natural scientists/hydrologists to put this in discussion with a much longer tradition in social sciences of seeing water as both natural and social. We identify what the paradigms are in both conceptualizations in order to assess what their respective focus is, and what they omit. Our purpose is not to judge competing claims. Rather we want to assess the knowledge claims made in both paradigms: what can we learn when we employ these different approaches, what different rationales for action do they suggest, and what scope exists for collaboration. We conclude that there is scope in combining both approaches without a need to antagonistically question their respective fundamental assumptions, and playing to the strengths of each: the rich case study narratives produced by hydrosocial research can be the basis for the conceptual and quantitative modeling of socio-hydrology.

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Section: Ess and Its Criticsmentioning

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Socio‐hydrology and hydrosocial analysis: toward dialogues across disciplines

2016

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“…But those divisional boundaries and barriers are under siege from a number of positions. In particular, the arrival of the Anthropocene as a critical area of interest and the inauguration of critical physical geography (Lave, 2015;Tadaki, 2015) promise to open up a space for critical legal physical -or environmentalgeographies.…”

Section: Physical and Other-than-human Worldsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Legal geography III

Delaney

2016

Progress in Human Geography

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In the past year scholars have extended the reach of legal geography to a number of previously neglected areas of interest. Among these are non-Western, non-common law places; the sphere of the international, particularly the law of war; and the physical, other-than-human worlds. As they ventured into these areas legal geographers have also initiated or strengthened convergences with other critical projects such as political ecology, critical strands of international legal scholarship, legal anthropology, critical physical geography and critical animal studies.

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“…Lave et al () and Lave () have advanced the case for a critical physical geography. They note that, as physical geographers, we rarely embrace the fact that there exist reflexive relations between human society and the natural environment.…”

Section: The “Real World” As Perceived By Physical Geographersmentioning

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Physical geographers’ understanding of the real world

Slaymaker

2016

Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes

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Key Messages In spite of the major successes of logical positivism in experimental science, the philosophy of positivism alone restricts physical geographers’ understanding of the real world. Roy Bhaskar's version of critical realism has the potential to expand physical geographers’ understanding of the real world. Critical realism can resolve the nature/culture binary and bring ethical concerns over systemic injustices into the purview of physical geography.

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Introduction to special issue on critical physical geography

Cited by 49 publications

References 30 publications

Socio‐hydrology and hydrosocial analysis: toward dialogues across disciplines

Socio‐hydrology and hydrosocial analysis: toward dialogues across disciplines

Legal geography III

Physical geographers’ understanding of the real world

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