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Re-conceptualising political landscapes after the material turn: a typology of material events

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  • Martijn Duineveld
  • Kristof Van Assche
  • Raoul Beunen

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This paper conceptualises and categorises the various relationships between materiality, discursive construction of landscapes and collective action. Building on both post-structuralist and non-representational geography, and incorporating insights from social systems theory and from evolutionary governance theory, we present a perspective on materiality as shaping landscapes, communities and cultures through different pathways. These pathways might involve the construction of landscape concepts and can potentially affect collective choice in political landscapes of actors and institutions. Five types of material events are distinguished: silent, whispering, vigorous, fading and deadly events. These events constitute the spectrum in which materiality and changes in materiality affect communication and action. Such conceptualisation and categorisations help to avoid setting up a harsh distinction between matter and discourse, or a simple choice for one over the other as ontologically prior.

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  • Martijn Duineveld & Kristof Van Assche & Raoul Beunen, 2017. "Re-conceptualising political landscapes after the material turn: a typology of material events," Landscape Research, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 42(4), pages 375-384, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:clarxx:v:42:y:2017:i:4:p:375-384
    DOI: 10.1080/01426397.2017.1290791
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    1. Raoul Beunen & Kristof Van Assche & Monica Gruezmacher, 2022. "Evolutionary Perspectives on Environmental Governance: Strategy and the Co-Construction of Governance, Community, and Environment," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(16), pages 1-18, August.
    2. Kristof Van Assche & Martijn Duineveld & Monica Gruezmacher & Raoul Beunen, 2021. "Steering as Path Creation: Leadership and the Art of Managing Dependencies and Reality Effects," Politics and Governance, Cogitatio Press, vol. 9(2), pages 369-380.

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