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On Geography and Materiality

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  • Ben Anderson

    (Department of Geography, Durham University, Science Laboratories, South Road, Durham DH1 3LE, England)

  • John Wylie

    (Department of Geography, University of Exeter, The Queen's Drive, Exeter EX4 4QJ, England)

Abstract

In the context of human geography's encounter with the problematics that surround matter and materiality, this paper offers a principle that works towards a distinctive material imagination. This principle states that our image of matter should be multiplied, so that it can be attended to as taking place with the properties and capacities of any element or state. We elaborate this principle through three substantive discussions of materiality as turbulent , as interrogative , and as excessive. In doing so we draw upon, in turn, forms of relational materialism associated with actor-network theory, the postphenomenologies of Lingis, the animate or enchanted materialism developed by Bennett, and the figurative and affective (im)materialities of Deleuze. The conclusion clarifies why we do not call for geography to be ‘rematerialised’.

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  • Ben Anderson & John Wylie, 2009. "On Geography and Materiality," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 41(2), pages 318-335, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envira:v:41:y:2009:i:2:p:318-335
    DOI: 10.1068/a3940
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    1. Jeffries, Jayne M., 2018. "Negotiating acquired spinal conditions: Recovery with/in bodily materiality and fluids," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 211(C), pages 61-69.
    2. Rioux, Sébastien, 2014. "Food quality and the circulation time of commodities: lessons from the British milk trade 1845–1914," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 38(C), pages 114-121.

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