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Speculative Geographies

Ethics, Technologies, Aesthetics

Herausgegeben: Williams, Nina; Keating, Thomas

Beschreibung

This book explores how speculative thinking is shaping how we relate to our entangled social, mental, and environmental ecologies. It examines how speculative philosophies and concepts are changing geographical research methods and techniques, whilst also developing how speculative thinking transforms the way human, non-human, and more-than-human things are conceptualised in research practices across the social sciences, arts, and humanities. Offering the first dedicated compendium of geographical engagements with speculation and speculative thinking, the chapters in this edited collection advance debates about how affective, imperceptible, and infra-sensible qualities of environments might be written about through alternative registers and ontologies of experience. Organised around the themes of Ethics, Technologies, and Aesthetics, the book will appeal to those engaging with architecture, Black political theory, fiction, cinema, children's geographies, biotechnologies, philosophy, rural studies, arts practice, and nuclear waste studies as speculative research practices appropriate for addressing contemporary ecological problems.
Chapters 1, 3 and 4 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Autor

Nina Williams is Lecturer in Cultural Geography at UNSW Canberra, Australia. Nina's research explores conceptual innovations in the fields of nonrepresentational theory, process philosophy speculative thinking and post-humanism. A central pursuit in Nina's research is to amplify aesthetics and creativity as salient modes of sensing and engaging geographic work. Thomas Keating is a researcher in Technology and Social Change at Linköping University, Sweden. Thomas' research engages with problems posed by human-technology relationships. He has published on Gilbert Simondon (Cultural Geographies), post-humanism (Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers), and speculative empiricism with Didier Debaise (Theory, Culture & Society).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / RMIT University / Springer Nature Singapore / Springer, Berlin / Swansea Univer
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-981-19-0690-9
• 1st edition 2022
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. November 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 153mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 533g
• ISBN-13: 9789811906909
• ISBN-10: 9811906904
• Artikelnr.: 63353272

Rezensionen

"Speculative Geographies is a powerful appeal to new kinds of earth-writing. It is a timely ... edited collection exploring the growing influence of speculative theory in geography, as well as the under-acknowledged importance of geography in speculative theory. ... the volume is a landmark contribution to this emerging field. ... Speculative Geographies will be a key touchstone for contemporary thinking on the philosophies, ethics, and methods of geographical practice." (Julian Brigstocke, Social & Cultural Geography, June 10, 2024)