Social geography(ies) III

Casino, Vincent J. Del

doi:10.1177/0309132516681702

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“…It references the failures of the past, but when and what the future will bring remains uncertain across the world. Researching COVID‐19 is thus a Sisyphean task in which analysis and interpretation are constantly being upended and inverted by events (Will, 2020), as well as the ‘bug’ itself (Del Casino Jr, 2018). Yet, at the same time, COVID‐19 should, as Sparke and Anguelov rightfully argue, be ‘contextualised geographically’, especially given how the pandemic has unearthed an array of ‘uneven geographies’ (Sparke & Anguelov, 2020, p. 498).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Humanitarian inversions:COVID‐19 as crisis

Herrick

Kelly

Soulard

2022

Trans Inst British Geog

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COVID‐19 is a multi‐spectral crisis that has added an acute layer over a panoply of complex emergencies across the world. In the process, it has not only exposed actually‐existing emergencies, but also exacerbated them as the global gaze has turned inward. As a crisis, COVID‐19 straddles and challenges the boundaries between humanitarianism, development and global health – the frames and categories through which emergencies are so often understood and intervened upon. Reflection on these fundamental categories is, we argue, an important geographical endeavour. Drawing on Geoffrey Bowker’s analytical lens of the ‘infrastructural inversion’, we explore how humanitarianism has been upended by Covid‐19 along two axes that are of core concern to geographers: (1) the spatial; and (2) the temporal. We first contextualise current debates on the humanitarian endeavour and its future within recent geographical research. We then set out the complex structure by which COVID‐19 has been both imagined and intervened upon as a humanitarian emergency. In so doing, we then pave the way for a deeper empirical analysis of the spatial and temporal inversions that have been brought forth by COVID‐19. The paper concludes by examining the conceptual value of the ‘inversion’ in developing geographical research agendas better attuned to the increasing porosity of humanitarianism, development and global health.

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Humanitarian inversions:COVID‐19 as crisis

Herrick

Kelly

Soulard

2022

Trans Inst British Geog

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“…Other troubled relationships with non-human companions have been explained elsewhere, either as pathogens, microbes and viruses (Crosby, 2004; Del Casino, 2018; Guthman, 2019; Paxson, 2008), slugs (Ginn, 2014) or mosquitoes and other insects (Beisel, 2010; Beisel et al, 2013) – creatures that have been defined as stubborn (Marder, 2013), monstrous (Ginn, 2014), or fugitive (Robbins, 2004b). Weeds, and all the species with undomesticated lives, pose ethical, technical, or health barriers to the advance of human social life; they ‘shout challenges to stability’ (Tsing, 2017: 4).…”

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Weeds in action: Vegetal political ecology of unwanted plants

Argüelles

March

2021

Progress in Human Geography

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This paper presents a vegetal political ecology of weeds. Weeds have barely been analysed in the burgeoning field of ‘more-than-human’ scholarship, this despite their ubiquity and considerable impact on human social life. We review how geographical scholarship has represented weeds’ material and political status: mostly as invasive plants, annoying species in private gardens and spontaneous vegetation in urbanized landscapes. Then, bringing together weed science, agronomic science and the critical geography of agriculture, we show how weeds ecology, weeds management and the environmental problems which weeds are entangled have critically shaped the industrial agriculture paradigm. Three main arguments emerging from our analysis open up new research avenues: weeds’ disruptive character might shape our understanding of human-plant relationships; human-weeds relation in agriculture have non-trivial socio-economic and political implications; and more-than-human approaches, such as vegetal political ecology, might challenge dominant modes of considering and practicing agriculture.

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“…More-than-human geographies contribute insightful assemblage-based case studies, including Sundberg’s (2011) examination of cats, desert thornscrub, and border security personnel in the southwestern USA and Lorimer’s (2010) exploration of bacteria and viruses linking elephants and humans in Sri Lanka. Del Casino (2016) reviews the relations between bugs (insects, viruses, bacteria, parasites) and humans via management strategies, molecular interventions, and biosocial relations. These case studies extend studies of the nonhuman and bring micro-organisms, plants, and technologies into the study of human-animal relations (Smart and Smart, 2012).…”

Section: Animal Networkmentioning

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Animal geographies III: Species relations of power

Hovorka

2018

Progress in Human Geography

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In this final report on animal geographies, I address species relations of power. These relations reflect the relative power held by various animal groups, as expressed in their circumstances and experiences and as mediated through human-animal dynamics. Investigating the breadth and complexity of these power dynamics is important given that we live in a multispecies world and we continue to seek avenues for de-centring ‘the human’ in theory and practice. Animal geographies offer scholarly tools through which to explore, unpack, and interrogate multispecies hierarchical networks. The result is a holistic, in-depth view of relations of power that illuminates how animal social groups are bound up with humans, as well as with other animals, in ways that produce and reproduce species-based differences and inequalities.

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Social geography(ies) III

Cited by 11 publications

References 44 publications

Humanitarian inversions:COVID‐19 as crisis

Humanitarian inversions:COVID‐19 as crisis

Weeds in action: Vegetal political ecology of unwanted plants

Animal geographies III: Species relations of power

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