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Steve
Steve Hinchliffe
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> Relational geographies: taking stock
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> CFP: AAG 2011 Seattle April 12th-16th
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> Session organisers: Jamie Lorimer (Kings College London), Kathryn Yusoff (Exeter)
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> This session seeks to draw together researchers concerned with mapping different ways of relating to the nonhuman world. It is clear that the millennial diagnosis of relational ontologies e.g. (Whatmore 1999) – and associated epistemologies, ethics and politics – was but the first step for a geographical project that seeks to witness and evoke ways of living well with nonhumans. Nature, Society, Science and Humanity have been diagnosed as emergent and unstable forms, but the question still remains: what next? It is not analytically or politically sufficient just to identify relationality and/or vitality and detections of hybridity can swiftly become banal (Braun 2008). Recent work in this field has seen a healthy proliferation of efforts to address these challenges and deficiencies to the relation turn. This work is differentiated at turns by
> theoretical frameworks and empirical foci. It has sparked interests in affirmative relations, characterised for example by generosity, hope, friendship, enchantment, care, companionship or conviviality (Anderson 2006; Bennett 2001; Bingham 2006; Clark 2007; Hinchliffe 2008; Hinchliffe & Whatmore 2006; Lorimer 2010a), along with more troubling relations of excess, fear, hatred and violence (Thrift 2005; Yusoff 2009, 2010). We have also learnt of comedy, curiosity and the merits of confusion (Davies 2007; Lorimer 2010b). This panoply of modes
> of relating are mediated through material assemblages and draw on a full range of sensory knowledges. This diversification has accompanied the broadening of the focus of nonhuman geography away from long-standing concerns for domestic species and uninhabited landscapes to examine a wider array of nonhuman forms and processes – including urban wildlife, mosquitoes, tsunamis and microbes, to name just a few.
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> This session seeks to take stock of these ‘multinatural’ and ‘cosmopolitical’ geographies, to both begin to draw together some common themes and to critically interrogate the import and future potentials of the relational turn. Accordingly, we would encourage papers that address:
> - the practices associated with a particular mode of relating
> - the political-ethical potential of different modes of relating
> - frictions at the interface of different modes of relating
> - the difference that nonhuman difference makes to relations
> - different relational figures and affects – parasites, symbiosis, affinity, love, violence,
> ingestion, inheritance
> - difficult or non-relations
> - the limitations of relations as the analytical fulcrum for critical analysis
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> We encourage papers rich in empirical material and experimental methods with both
> contemporary and historical foci.
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> If you are interested in participating, please contact Jamie Lorimer ([log in to unmask]) and Kathryn Yusoff ([log in to unmask])
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> References
> Anderson B 2006 Becoming and being hopeful: towards a theory of affect Environment and Planning D-Society & Space 24 733-752
> Bennett J 2001 The enchantment of modern life: attachments, crossings, and ethics Princeton University Press, Princeton
> Bingham N 2006 Bees, butterflies, and bacteria: Biotechnology and the politics of nonhuman friendship Environment and Planning A 38 483-498
> Braun B 2008 Environmental issues: inventive life Progress in Human Geography 32 667-679
> Clark N 2007 Living through the tsunami: Vulnerability and generosity on a volatile earth Geoforum 38 1127-1139
> Davies G 2007 The funny business of biotechnology: Better living through chemistry comedy Geoforum 38 221-223
> Hinchliffe S 2008 Reconstituting nature conservation: Towards a careful political ecology Geoforum 39 88-97
> Hinchliffe S and Whatmore S 2006 Living cities: towards a politics of conviviality Science as Culture 15 123-138
> Lorimer J 2010a Elephants as companion species: the lively biogeographies of elephant conservation in Sri Lanka Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 35 491–506
> Lorimer J 2010b Moving image methodologies for more-than-human geographies Cultural Geographies 17 237-258
> Thrift N 2005 But malice aforethought: Cities and the natural history of hatred Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 30 133-150
> Whatmore S 1999 Hybrid Geographies: Rethinking the 'Human' in Human Geography in al. MDe ed Human Geography Today, Polity, London 22-39
> Yusoff K 2009 Excess, catastrophe, and climate change Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 27 1010-1029
> Yusoff, K 2010 Biopolitical Economies and the Political Aesthetics of Climate Change. Theory, Culture and Society 27(2/3), 73-99
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