Rethinking the subject, reimagining worlds

Ruddick, Susan

doi:10.1177/2043820617717847

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“…It is simultaneously an epoch, epistemological style, and an ontological condition (Ginn 2017). Within Canadian geography, posthumanist analyses have drawn on varied sub-disciplines, theories, and philosophical underpinnings including Indigenous knowledges (Sundberg 2014;Hoogeveen 2016;Yates et al 2017;Vannini and Vannini 2019); feminist performativity theory (Geiger and Hovorka 2015;Mathews 2018); (neo)vitalism philosophies (Ruddick 2010); non-/more-than-representational theories (Hall and Wilton 2016;Andrews 2018b;Vannini and Vannini 2018); Foucauldian analyses of governmentality theory on biopolitics and biopower (e.g., Blue and Rock 2011;Collard 2012); queer theory (e.g., Nash and Gorman-Murray 2017); and assemblage and actor-network theories (e.g., Lepawsky and Mather 2011;Andrews 2018a;Evans et al 2019). Moreover, "rhizomatic networks" of posthuman theoretical knowledge in Canadian geography have been cultivated in and around various institutions.…”

Section: Posthumanism In Canadian Geographymentioning

confidence: 99%

The understated turn: Emerging interests and themes in Canadian posthumanist geography

Asker

Andrews

2020

Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes

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• Posthumanism is a broad, understated, yet strongly emerging tradition in Canadian geography. • Five key empirical fields are emerging, each demonstrating how posthumanism can be applied to Canadian empirical contexts. • Future research attention could be paid to a range of issues in Canadian geography and beyond, including the geographies of geographical knowledge production. Posthumanist geography is a broad tradition incorporating a range of intersecting theoretical approaches including assemblage theory, actor-network theory, new materialisms, affect theory, neo-vitalism, political ecology, postphenomenology, and non-representational theory-as well as contributions from a number of theoretically progressive subject fields such as new mobilities, relational thinking, sensory and performance studies, biosocial and biopolitics studies, and science and technology studies. The specificities of and differences between these traditions and fields aside, common to posthumanism is a scepticism of human exceptionalism. Here, the sovereign human subject is decentred, and in doing so, posthumanist work acknowledges the agencies of a full array of human and non-human actors and forces. Recognizing that there are important "geographies to (the discipline of) geography," this paper identifies and reviews some of the key posthumanist interests and themes that have emerged over recent years quietly and organically in Canadian geography, namely posthumanist (i) Indigenous geographies; (ii) animal and natures geographies; (iii) health, wellbeing, and disability geographies; (iv) affective and atmospheric geographies; and (v) non-representational and creative methodologies. The paper concludes with some thoughts on the nature and strengths of Canadian posthumanist geography, and on some possibilities for future advancement.

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Section: Posthumanism In Canadian Geographymentioning

confidence: 99%

The understated turn: Emerging interests and themes in Canadian posthumanist geography

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Andrews

2020

Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes

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“…In a recent special issue on the subject of affective ecologies and conservation, Singh (2018) notes that while the turn towards affect theory in geography and related disciplines has grown exponentially in the past two decades, a concern remains that ''the affective turn can lead to an apolitical focus on biophysical processes or on proximate attachments that neglect the complex histories, cultures, and issues of conflict and incompatibility'' (2). Approaching photovoice as a means of attuning to conservation's affects also becomes a means of responding to criticisms that more-than-human and posthuman-inflected research ignores pressing questions of politics and justice in favor of attention to the affects of individual beings and the ''liveliness'' of things (for a review of these debates, see Braun, 2015;Fraser, 1997;Panelli, 2010;Ruddick, 2010Ruddick, , 2017Singh, 2018).…”

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On coming into animal presence with photovoice

Margulies

2019

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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Methodological advancement within more-than-human geography lags behind its theorization. As an intervention into the promise of visual methods for enlivening more-than-human geographies, I describe working with a photographic practice for exploring geographies of encounter between humans, the animals they care for, and wild animals. This is presented through discussing a collaborative project employing photovoice to explore wildlife conservation politics in a landscape where both humans and animals have the capacity to kill, and be killed, by one another. Through engaging with photographs and text produced over the course of six months by six individuals living in close proximity to Bandipur National Park in Karnataka, India, I explore entangled relations between humans and animals and the production of more-than-human hierarchies. I consider the potential of a visual method for practicing more-than-human geographies as an exploration of affective encounters. This paper contributes to on-going discussions and debates on decolonizing more-than-human geographies. More specifically, I suggest photovoice as one means by which more-than-human geographies can remain critically engaged with and speak out against enactments of injustice and violent legacies of colonialism that reach across species divides.

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“…The interventions that follow explore some techniques for moving forward with these key tenets in a research setting. This is significant in the current climate of political and ecological crises; in the geographic literature, it is becoming increasingly apparent that such Anthropocenic concerns require a fresh approach to ecological thought that extends “collaborations far beyond the realm of human relationships” (Ruddick, , p. 120). Our minor contribution is in further emphasising in each of the following papers how forces and processes can be brought into collaboration beyond a particular humanist reduction of subjectivity, that is, before a reasoning subject as the master of making sense and outlining actions.…”

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confidence: 99%

Practising post‐humanism in geographical research

Williams

Patchett

Lapworth

et al. 2019

Trans Inst British Geog

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Post-humanist theories shaping contemporary geographic research have unsettled the privileged position of the "human" as a common reference to apprehend social life. This decentring of the human demands that we rethink our expectations of, and approaches to, methodological practice and the traditional distinctions made between the theoretical and the empirical. In this introduction and the following interventions, we explore how a material situatedness and attention to nonhuman agencies within post-humanist thought complement and extend existing methodological innovations within human geography. We do so with reference to a series of Masters workshopsa somewhat overlooked space of research-creationeach of which explored the implications of post-humanism on methodological practice. The introduction concludes with three key tenets that were followed in each of the individual workshops, and which set out an ethos for practising post-humanism more broadly. K E Y W O R D S experimentation, geographic method, Masters workshops, nonhuman intensities, post-humanist theory, theory/practice divide 1 | PRACTISING POST-HUMANISM: WHY NOW?Recently, there has been a push to explore more experimental orientations to the "doing" of research and to develop practices that problematise methodological assumptions pertaining to rigour, reliability, and representation within geography (Dowling et al., 2016(Dowling et al., , 2017(Dowling et al., , 2018Vannini, 2015;Whatmore, 2006). In this paper we contribute to these exciting debates by engaging with the way post-humanist theoretical innovations shaping contemporary human geography require us to rethink the empirical demands and methodological responsibilities of geographical research. In bringing the material and affective registers of social life to the fore, post-humanist theories have the potential to reconfigure our relation to research practices in ways that trouble the traditional distinction between the theoretical and the empirical. It is in this potential for capturing novel aspects of contemporary social and cultural life, in excess of human durations, that we situate our concern for the practice of post-humanism within human geography.Responding to the call to experiment methodologically, the turn to more-than-human geographies has done much to broaden the remit of contemporary research to include the agency of the nonhuman in shaping social life. As Bastian et al. (2016, p. 2) note, a key concern here is "to take nonhuman life, and the entanglements of human/nonhuman life seriously" in the production of geographical knowledge. This concern is precisely about the challenge of attending to diverse nonhuman agencies in ways that demand different approaches to the act of doing geographical research. In turning to the relationship between post-humanism and geographical research (Braun,

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Rethinking the subject, reimagining worlds

Cited by 60 publications

References 45 publications

The understated turn: Emerging interests and themes in Canadian posthumanist geography

The understated turn: Emerging interests and themes in Canadian posthumanist geography

On coming into animal presence with photovoice

Practising post‐humanism in geographical research

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