Politicizing ontology

Joronen, Mikko; Häkli, Jouni

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“…Taking the fact that the geographical literature on ontological politics has created a muddled set of contributions, some of which have even fallen into the trap of "everything political" (see Joronen and Häkli 2016), I want to address that with the notion of ontological politics I refer to the reception of the ways in which the world is already revealed to us. My aim is thus not to extend the question of politics to cover the radical symmetry between human and non-human (e.g.…”

Section: Relational Topology or The Ontological Politics Of Relating?mentioning

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Politics of Being–Related: on Onto–Topologies and “Coming Events”

Joronen

2016

Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography

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JOROnEn, M. (2016): 'Politics of being-related: on ontotopologies and "coming events"', Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography 98 (2): 97-107.ABSRACT. This article grows from a discontent with the equation of topology to relational thinking in the recent geographical literature operating under the rubric of post-mathematical topology. In order to find a more subtle way for comprehending topology, the article shows that there exists an entirely different tradition of topological thought, which is explicitly connected to the problematic around the notion of ontology. An alternative approach is suggested, where not only the relational constitution of topology is properly taken into account, but where an in-depth reading of the ontological aspect is offered. Instead of fabricating another "ontology of topology", the article argues that it is the ontology itself, which takes place topologically, that is, it is place-bound. By relying on Heidegger's insight about the bond between place (topos) and being (ontology), the article proposes an approach that is concentrated on the manifold modes through which topological relations are ontologically revealed, ordered, and defined. It acknowledges three topological tensions -thing-gathering, gathering-revealing, and concealing-revealing -in order to highlight the structure of the place in which the question of ontology, and ontological politics are entwined.

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Politics of Being–Related: on Onto–Topologies and “Coming Events”

Joronen

2016

Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography

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“…What the authors refer to is a fundamental shift in how knowledge claims are no longer grounded on epistemic questioning, but rather upon ontological access to reality itself. Simply put, the proponents of the turn to ontology propose that our (modernist) conceptions of the world are ontologically false, and thereby most of the theoretical constructs set to analyze it are obsolete, the human subject included (Blaser, 2014;Joronen & Häkli 2016).…”

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“…I begin by outlining the conceptual contours of citizenship and civil society in political geography, with their recent posthumanist extensions. I then move on to briefly discuss how posthumanism has emerged in human geography as a strategy of embedding conceptual work within ontological premises -what could be called the ontologisation of social theory (Barnett, 2008;Joronen & Häkli 2016). In general, I view this as a move from engagement with existing knowledge claims to the promotion of radically new conceptions and accounts of the world (Anderson, 2014;Bessire & Bond, 2014).…”

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The subject of citizenship – Can there be a posthuman civil society?

Häkli

2018

Political Geography

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In this article, I discuss the notion of agency and its relationship to our understanding of acts of citizenship embedded in civil society. I focus particularly on the strain under which the idea of human agency has fallen in the context of posthumanist thinking. By building on critical interrogations of posthumanist thought, I shed light on the consequences of distributed agency on thinking about citizenship and civil society, and particularly the normative underpinnings of agency framed in these terms. In particular I show that the idea of responsibility should be further elaborated upon before we can meaningfully consider citizenship in (more than) posthumanist terms. I conclude by briefly outlining a possibility for overcoming the ontological contradiction between humanist and posthumanist thought as a promising move towards rethinking citizenship and civil society in a more-than-posthuman world.

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“…I put together several such stories, forming them into a set of descriptions, which I further use to pave the way for a discussion of a mode of government they unfold: namely, the one based on precarious waiting of rights in the theaters of recognition. Rather than predefining a theoretical framework -an approach particularly problematic due to the dangers of ontological 'closures', 'path-dependencies' and 'colonial ways of being ' (See Blaser, 2014;Joronen and Häkli, 2016;Sundberg, 2014) -the conceptualization of governmental logic(s) stems from the events these stories gradually unfold. Such acknowledgement of the 'stories of others' is not merely an ethical responsibility of the researcher, but indebtedness that brings our own vulnerability to the fore -that is, our fundamental reliance on the stories others tell (Rose, 2016: 12).…”

Section: Waiting the Right That Never Comes: Permits Procedures And mentioning

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Spaces of waiting: Politics of precarious recognition in the occupied West Bank

Joronen

2017

Environ Plan D

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This paper is an attempt to explicate a peculiar logic of government Israeli state apparatuses use to control the Palestinian population and colonize the West Bank; namely, the one of slowness, delay and waiting. To understand the operational logic of such governing, I suggest the conditions of recognizing Palestinian rights, their theatric performance by the Israeli state apparatuses, and the maintaining of precarity among Palestinians are the critical aspects to expand. By looking at the West Bank sites close to expanding Israeli settlements, I show how this mode of governing operates by recognizing the Palestinian right to claim justice, security and governance without actualization of these rights, therefore directing Palestinian resistance and sense of injustice to support the theatric functions of settler colonial state. Hence, theaters of recognition are created, the ones that ceremoniously keep administrative, legal and security processes functional, but through the slow processing, stalling and endless piling up of decisions, regulations, requirements and security exceptions do not alleviate the induced precarities.

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Politicizing ontology

Cited by 79 publications

References 98 publications

Politics of Being–Related: on Onto–Topologies and “Coming Events”

Politics of Being–Related: on Onto–Topologies and “Coming Events”

The subject of citizenship – Can there be a posthuman civil society?

Spaces of waiting: Politics of precarious recognition in the occupied West Bank

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