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First call for papers: RGS-IBG 2018 Annual Conference, Cardiff; 28 - 31 August 2018.
Conference Theme: Geographical landscapes / changing landscapes of geography.
Session Title: Landscape, Becoming and Time. Past, present and future uses of the dwelling concept in Human Geography and beyond.
Co-sponsored by the Rural Geography Research Group and the History and Philosophy of Geography Research Group.
Convenors: Owain Jones, Bath Spa University [log in to unmask] ; Dan Keech, CCRI, University of Gloucestershire [log in to unmask]
The Dwelling concept was set out by Heidegger in the essay Building, Dwelling, Thinking, this being one of seven essays in the work Poetry, Language, Thought (1959). It was an intrinsically geographic concept insofar as it was about how people were in-the-world through landscape, time, memory, culture, mortality, and spirituality. Dwelling accounts for enfolded space and time in qualitative, experiential terms of becoming-through-experience – ‘poetic habituation’. It was, according to Malpas’s detailed study of Heidegger’s Topology (2008), a central motif of his later work which challenged rationalism, modernity, and scientism. Dwelling had an influence of the humanistic/ phenomenological geographies of the 1970s and 1980s (e.g. Tuan 1977 Seamon 1993) and has since persisted as an approach within geography and related disciplines. This was further significantly shaped by Tim Ingold’s development of the Dwelling approach (1993, 1995, 2000, 2011), introducing the idea of taskscape, and with foci on practice, relationality, non-human agency. This refreshed version of dwelling, which left behind some of the more obscure, or even problematic aspects of Heideggerian dwelling, was taken up with renewed enthusiasm by the new cultural geographies of the 1990s, which sought more performative and even post-structurally infused accounts of becoming-in-place and landscape (Thrift 1999; Cloke and Jones 2001; Wylie 2003; Harrison 2007; Schatzki 2007). Ingold latterly cast doubt on his use of dwelling as a cornerstone of thinking of becoming, turning more to notions of lines and meshworks (2011), but it still remains in use as a concept across the discipline. It now cross-cuts with questions/issues such as affect, migration, displacement, mobility, tourism, and toxicity. Indeed, new interpretations of dwelling seem highly relevant in relation the normalisation of social, political and ecological turbulence (even trauma). This may indicate that geographical identities, (multiple-)belongings and ecological (co-) consciousness need to be iteratively built up in form of lived layerings which are mobile, and even ecstatic forms of flourishing (Rigby 2010).
Papers, and or other creative forms, are sought on dwelling and/as:
Landscape / place
Mobility
Tourism
Gendered
In the Anthropocene
Toxic
Migration / conflict
Displacement
Rural / urban
Ecstatic
Affective
Fearful
Deadline for submitting 200 word abstracts is 9th February 2018
(200 word Session Abstract for Programme
Dwelling was set out by Heidegger in Building, Dwelling, Thinking (1959). It was an intrinsically geographic concept, exploring being in-the-world through landscape, time, memory, culture, mortality, and spirituality. Dwelling accounts for enfolded space and time in qualitative, experiential terms of becoming-through-experience – ‘poetic habituation’ and challenged rationalism, modernity, scientism (Malpas 2008). Dwelling had an influence of the humanistic/ phenomenological geographies of the 1970s and 1980s (e.g. Tuan 1977, Seamon 1993) and was further shaped by Ingold’s use (1993, 1995, 2000, 2011), with foci on taskscape, practice, relationality, non-human agency. This refreshed version, which shed some of the more obscure/problematic aspects of Heideggerian dwelling, was taken up in new cultural geographies of the 1990s, which sought more performative and post-structurally infused accounts of becoming-in-place and landscape (Thrift 1999, Cloke and Jones 2001, Wylie 2003, Harrison 2007, Schatzki 2007). Ingold reconsidered his use of dwelling as a cornerstone of becoming (2011), but it remains in use as a concept across the discipline. Interpretations of dwelling seem relevant in relation to the normalisation of socio-political and ecological turbulence, geographical identities, (multiple-)belongings and ecological (co-) consciousness to be iteratively built up in lived layerings that are mobile, and even ecstatic forms of flourishing (Rigby 2010).
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