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Hybrid Geographies: Rethinking the ‘Human’ in Human Geography

Authors: Sarah Whatmore;

Hybrid Geographies: Rethinking the ‘Human’ in Human Geography

Abstract

This chapter discusses some key dimensions of a hybrid geography which recognizes agency as a relational achievement, involving the creative presence of organic beings, technological devices and discursive codes. It focuses on the spatial implications of the kind of approach, illustrated through a consideration of contemporary (re)configurings of wildlife – a category of 'nonhumans' most thoroughly outcast from the conventional compass of social life, social science and human geography. Human geography thus finds itself at an important juncture in its critical engagement with the question of nature. Nature is the always already crafted product of human interpretation. Critical analysis of this inescapably mediated Nature becomes fixed on the social hierarchies and discursive conventions and devices of Nature's inscription by landscape paintings, TV nature programmes and computer models. There is undoubtedly a generous measure of caricature in embattled depiction of the treatment of Nature/nature in social theory which serves primarily to reaffirm intellectual prejudices and identities.

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influence
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