Pub Date : 2024-01-28DOI: 10.1177/14744740241227442
Joanna Kocsis
This essay combines text and images in the style of a graphic novel to animate the lively and dynamic processes of a qualitative research approach that I call the collective creation of performed fiction. This is a form of projective storytelling in which participants draw on their own experiences to create and perform composite stories. Using fiction helps them avoid revealing sensitive details of their personal lives. The examples shared here are drawn from a long-term engagement with a group of youth in Old Havana, Cuba, where historic geopolitical tensions and emergent economic crises are interrupting the imagined futures of the young. This brief contribution documents key differences between three creative mediums used in this work (street theatre, film and animation), and addresses their varied capacities to mitigate the risks of self-disclosure.
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Pub Date : 2024-01-10DOI: 10.1177/14744740231223179
Anamik Saha
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Pub Date : 2024-01-09DOI: 10.1177/14744740231223183
Milo Newman
Recent literature in cultural geography, and elsewhere, has productively applied a spectral lens to the subject of extinction, revealing its hauntological aspects. In this article I expand on this, exploring the spectral effects of the diminishments that precede extinction. This is articulated via an extinction story detailing the steep decline in numbers of arctic terns (pickies) returning to the island of Papa Westray in Orkney, Scotland, to breed. Drawing on memories of their past abundance, this narrative discloses how the spectre of these birds’ waning numbers haunts the island’s places and more-than-human inhabitants. Through the specifics of this example I develop a conceptualisation of the spectral more-than that lies at the heart of such decline, revealing how the ghosts invoked by extinction and biotic diminishment multiply across the relational complexity of local ecology.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-26DOI: 10.1177/14744740231218014
P. Vannini, April S. Vannini
There are eight underwater hotels in the world. Drawing from our on-site observations and reflections, in this paper we discuss how one of them, Singapore’s Equarius Hotel, may at first be understood as a heterotopia – a concept coined by Michel Foucault to denote a fully realized utopia. However, we will argue that our original concept of alloútopia (from the Greek alloú, for elsewhere, and topia, for place) is better suited to make sense of the more-than-human dynamics shaping underwater hotel rooms and the human-animal encounters taking place therein. We develop our original concept by drawing from contemporary geographical literature on heterotopias, and more-than-human geographies of aquatic animal encounters. We further outline the usefulness of the concept for a variety of applications across tourist geographies and more-than-human geographies.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-30DOI: 10.1177/14744740231215508
Aaron Bradshaw
Despite their ubiquity and ecological heterogeneity, non-pathogenic microorganisms are often lacking in accounts of more-than-human and other-than-human urbanisms. This article focuses on the use of digital technologies as practice for sensing and encountering unglamorous microbial ecologies emerging in a polluted urban river in East London. The River Lea has a dense industrial history, but today it is a site of post-industrial disuse, uneven development and burgeoning urban ecologies. In an easily bypassed segment of this urban river, microbial ecosystems bloom in and out of existence, reflecting a confluence of urban political ecological, hydrological and microbiological dynamics. These ecosystems are generally overlooked in accounts of urban ecological value, and are often framed as uncharismatic, accidental or even invasive. The aim of this work is to provide an alternative rendering of these slimy micro-ecologies. To this end, two digital approaches are explored: deployment of in situ micro-videography and attention to historical satellite imagery of the urban ecosystem. Microscopic approaches configure embodied, sensory, aesthetic and speculative encounters with microbial ecologies in urban space. In their temporal configuration, historical satellite approaches glimpse the machinations of urban political ecological dynamics as they contribute to the emergence of, and intersect with, recombinant urban ecosystems. These methods provide tools for cultural geographers studying how urban organisation affects ecological diversity, and for expanding geographic investigation into the more-than-human cultures of overlooked, unglamorous and uncharismatic urban lifeforms.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-29DOI: 10.1177/14744740231215511
Sofia Zaragocin Carvajal
Repair is about doing, (re)doing, and materiality. This plenary makes it very clear that repair means taking action, building relations, and a continuous attention to the material. The authors stress the methods of land-as-pedagogy, Black place making and the afterlives of slavery as political and cultural practices. The emphasis is on action and building relations that sustain the materiality of repair. I’d like to take up the four intersecting points mentioned in this paper that can act as a roadmap for geographers and others who are looking to do repair.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-29DOI: 10.1177/14744740231215512
Iona Nixon, Jeremy J Schmidt
This paper develops the concept of multispecies thought through a study of dog-walking in a public park in Lancaster, England. It draws on cybernetic ideas from Bateson, Peircean semiotics and von Uexküll’s umwelten to explore how multispecies worlds come into being in the spaces of the park, and amongst humans, dogs, leads, toys and other things. It focuses on how an understanding of multispecies thought can be discerned that is not only specific to the situated relations in dog-walks, but also constituted through routines that foster new capacities between specific bodies. In this way, we come to understand multispecies worlds as located at the sites where specific, associated worlds are co-produced by dogs and humans yet reducible to neither. We use the examples of lead-walking and play with balls and frisbees to show how semiotic relations are co-produced across species. Building on previous work, we confront species-defined notions of capacity and thought and look instead at how the indexical relations of multispecies thinking offers liberatory potential.
本文通过对英国兰开斯特一个公共公园遛狗活动的研究，提出了多物种思想的概念。本文借鉴贝特森的控制论思想、皮尔斯符号学和 von Uexküll 的 "世界"（umwelten）理论，探讨了多物种世界是如何在公园的空间中以及在人、狗、牵引绳、玩具和其他事物之间形成的。研究的重点是如何理解多物种思想，这种思想不仅与遛狗活动中的情景关系相关，而且还通过促进特定身体之间新能力的常规活动而形成。通过这种方式，我们将多物种世界理解为位于狗和人类共同创造的特定、相关世界的场所，但又不能还原为任何一方。我们以牵着狗走路以及玩球和飞盘为例，说明符号关系是如何跨物种共同产生的。在以往工作的基础上，我们正视物种定义的能力和思维概念，转而研究多物种思维的索引关系如何提供解放潜力。
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