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It is common to encounter selective angles from which representations significant divisions between quantitative and are presented, not least because these qualitative approaches — an expression of representations are often subject to the power Human Geography identity according to and control of the global political economy, methodological choice rather than substantive which increasingly seems to trade on sign- focus or theoretical viewpoint.

They help us to think about methods. While quantitative research through some of the recurring questions can produce explanation and prediction, and and issues involved in understanding the qualitative research can produce meaning interconnections of people and places, and they and understanding, these methodological help us to place ourselves in the picture as well.

However, mixed methods including Human Geographies of everyday life. Those feelings I had as a seventeen year old still Yet they still ring true to me today. I enjoyed animate my interest in Geography. I know Geography as a subject, and decided to do it for much more about the subject now, but I still a degree at university, because through think my views then located something very Geography I got to hear about, see pictures of, close to its heart.

They home in on a and maybe even go to a lot of different places. First, in exploration, and more virtually in the form of the emphasis on the distinctive characters of slide shows and reportage. Why did I think that particular places, they highlight the idea of the was a good thing? I valued the pleasures of local. And third, spending time in a place, getting a feel for it, central to this interest in both the local and finding out about it. A lot of my most powerful global is an emphasis on difference between memories and attachments were with places places and people.

This chapter examines the of various sorts, from the house I grew up in, relations between these three ideas: But can still be, for geographers. However, it also I also thought it was important to learn about argues for critical reflection. Notions of the areas of the world and people of which I would local, the global and difference are not as otherwise be largely ignorant.

I was both simple and obvious as they might at first seem. If we fail to do problems needed responses. Most obviously, this is the case through ways of thinking and acting. So, places and the differences why ideas of the local and the global have been between them can be seen to exist and have so important to Human Geography. I then set real effects.

I call But the local also matters in a second way. Spatial variations do not only exist. They are valued, or seen as a good thing, not least by Human Geographers. Sometimes this is expressed as a celebration of difference: To start with the local, it, and and so on ; or out of a pleasure gleaned from associated notions such as place and region, experiencing variety and the unexpected. And sometimes this ; Gilbert, In his thoughtful book environmentally sustainable livelihoods The Betweeness of Place, Nick Entrikin Schumacher, , or at least an appeal to argued that geographers have been interested in the local as a way of living more lightly on the local for three interrelated reasons.

Despite the in all such arguments the local does not just homogenizing ambitions attributed to the likes matter. Life chances are materially affected by the lottery of location. Whether you The third importance attached to the local happen to be born in Lagos or London or Los within Human Geography, according to Angeles, or indeed in Compton or Beverly Entrikin, involves a concern with the impact Hills, has an impact on the kind, and even of the local on the kinds of understanding or length, of life you can expect.

And location is knowledges that geographers themselves not just something we encounter and deal with. Developed in the seventeenth century, the Mercator world map is ideal for exploration as a constant bearing appears as a straight line, but this is achieved by distorting sizes, which makes tropical regions look far smaller than they actually are. In part this involves to break out of purely local knowledges a scepticism towards general theories that through appeals to global awareness.

Let me draw out four. Figure only know about localities, they produce local 1. Here, a is characterized by a concern with both the local world vision matters not only in order to rectify and the global. Here, attention to local differences. But, the local and thinking globally is essential not only to the global can also be seen as two sides of the recognize the scale of these problems but also same coin.

So, how we on CO2 emissions. To illustrate, I will review three schematic more directly to these relations between the accounts of local—global relations: They can, I want to as mosaic, the world as system, and the world as suggest, be thought of in a number of different network see Figure 1.

Mosaic about how estate agents and others seeking value in the property market such as retail One very popular way of thinking about location analysts or gentrifiers, map out cities Human Geographies is in terms of a mosaic. For more on the use of GIS, in a broader global pattern. This way of seeing location decision making, and this sort of the world can be drawn out at a number of mapping, see Chapter It is perhaps most obvious Move up to the supranational scale, and again at the level of the nation-state.

The global is divided distinctive pieces of an international mosaic; up through reference to the compass points: At other times and built environments. Or it may for a fuller discussion. But the mosaic is only be distinctive continental economic, political, one possible way of framing local—global cultural units that are identified and contrasted geographies and it is a very particular framing, in what Lewis and Wigen call a with its own preoccupations and blind spots. Asia and Asians Three features are especially important. First, framed as different to Europe and Europeans, the mosaic puts an emphasis on boundaries and North America and North Americans as borders.

Geographical difference is seen in different to Africa and Africans, and so on. Second, these areas are from geopolitical thought to popular culture. That is, each piece mosaic has been so influential see Gregory, of the mosaic is seen as having distinctive Third, this means that any intrusions Figure 1.

This might seem an obvious sign of one could think about claims that human homogenizing Americanization. In the extensive chat about this see Chapter 41 for more on migration. In geographical mosaic, no matter how many particular, viewers liked the way it dramatized scales it is imagined at. So, average qualities of an area to all its inhabitants.

If we think about distinctive Trinidadian sensibility. To use a popular local expression, migrate around the world see Chapter 28 on Miller suggests that all of these global products economic globalization. The world is not a differentiation. To be fair, mobilities, we cannot assume that the opening there are many positive elements to the notion up of local places to global forces necessarily of the geographical mosaic. We have to think about how the mosaic and its logic of each different thing in idea of difference is being constructed and its own different place to the most brutal used.

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In the case of the mosaic, all too often conclusions. Difference is locked into The idea of a world made up of different a geography of territories and borders. It is geographical areas is commonplace and is framed in terms of insiders and outsiders. However, while not without understands and recognizes differences by its merits — in particular its recognition of simplifying them and their location. This way difference — the mosaic is but one way of seeing the world is not so much a description of thinking about local—global relations, and of it as a powerful way of claiming and it can be deeply problematic because of how it attributing difference in spatial terms.

It also tends to construct global-scale processes as destructive to that local diversity. For example, local differences are not inevitably destroyed by global level processes; in fact they are often produced through them. To put it bluntly, maybe An alternative way of thinking about we need to think less about Europe and the local—global relations is to see local differences Philippines separately, and rather more about as produced by a global system.

That is, the whether Europe is rich precisely because the differences between places are not seen as a Philippines are poor. That is a very simplistic consequence of their internal qualities but as a assertion but it has its virtues. It sensitizes us to result of their location within the wider world. In emphasizing how innate but made systemically. We need to global relations actively produce differences understand the processes and powers that make between places it reorients our efforts away it.

I have been intimating at this kind of from just documenting diversity Europe and argument already. We might, for example, the USA are like this, the Philippines are like argue that the very idea of a geographical that and towards understanding the processes mosaic is a framework that makes difference, of that differentiation.

However, perhaps the best examples Central to such efforts of understanding how of this argument come from within and why differences are produced at the development studies and through attempts global scale has been work focused on the to understand the extreme differences that world-system. Here the world is treated as characterize our world. At the heart of its operations is the capitalist world One way of thinking about the differences economy. This is how Jim Blaut puts it, in and inequalities in wealth and life chances arguing against the idea of a special European between different parts of the world would character that has led to its relative economic be to identify internal characteristics that success: So, we could say and many do that Europe and North America are so Capitalism arose as a world-scale process: Capitalism became innovation they have shown since the time of concentrated in Europe because colonialism the Industrial Revolution or due to longer-term gave Europeans the power both to advantages conferred by temperate climates and develop their own society and to prevent the early adoption of agriculture.

And then we development from occurring elsewhere. What this A more concrete example may help to show the kind of explanation ignores, though, is the fact importance, and limits, of this systemic view that Europe and the Philippines are not just of local—global relations. That example is the separate places, they are places with long world coconut market as portrayed by James histories of interconnection through world Boyce It is possible, then, that Europe and the Philippines Boyce notes two main things about the global are so different because of these relationships coconut trade in the period — Low Understanding either of these facts requires a rewards for this agricultural production reflect global systemic focus.

That is, it is the products in the US market until The world trading within the Philippines allowed actions that system not only differentiates through an made these inequalities greater still. Declining international division of industries you grow global terms of trade were experienced coconuts, we have petro-chemicals , it particularly severely and responded to in discriminates in relation to the value of these particularly unproductive ways, because of the activities. Local processes, as well as However, as well as stressing the global relations global processes, played their part in the that have stimulated Filipino coconut impoverishment of coconut producers.

In particular, he relations and the political—economic structures stresses how the local trading relationships of each. Under the guise of concern for places cannot simply be understood through small producers, the Marcos regime reorganized comparison. Differences are made through the industry to concentrate power in the hands relations between places, as well as within of a single entity that controlled raw material them.

This concentration was in turn global interrelations, local agencies and their used to reward a few close political associates, production of geographical differences. Thus, existing be applied more generally too. They are produced by systems of global relations between places. It should investigate the processes of differentiation through which diversity and inequality are produced. In the model of the system, the global is portrayed as a If we think of the world in terms of networks, set of relations through which local differences then we see local places as gaining their are produced, and the emphasis is less on different characters through their distinctive collection and comparison than on connection.

In In this final section I want to take the idea of turn, we begin to see how the global is less connection further. In consequence, we may connection. Not only do we need to globalize need to view the local and the global not as the local, but we also need to localize the different scales small and large but as two ways global, understanding the global as something of approaching these networks, in which the other than a single entity or system. In highly influential arguments, the a classic early intimation of such an approach.

Whether thinking about a metropolitan electronic and virtual forms, routed through urban neighbourhood or a seemingly isolated the casino economies of major international rural village, Massey argued that localities gain financial centres in New York, Hong Kong, their different, specific characters through Tokyo and London.

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Massey has since developed this and product distributions. Many argument within her book For Space , a flows, many networks, often interconnected but wider theorization of how Human Geography possessing their own distinct geographies. So, approaches core concepts such as space and for example, money moves across national place. It is a pretty ordinary place, north-west of the centre of London. Under the railway bridge the newspaper stand sells papers from every county of what my neighbours, many of whom come from there, still often call the Irish Free State.

Thread your way through the often stationary traffic. On the door a notice announces a forthcoming concert at Wembley Arena: This is just the beginnings of a sketch from immediate impressions but a proper analysis could be done, of the links between Kilburn and the world. It is or ought to be impossible even to begin thinking about Kilburn High Road without bringing into play half the world and a considerable amount of British imperialist history. The village church itself links this quiet place into a religion which had its birth in the Middle East, and arrived here via Rome.

The come together and sometimes clash as the second approach is most commonly called trajectories producing different places. ANT has been widely interrelated mobilities of people, things and influential within Human Geography, but for ideas. At its heart are explorations of the our purposes here it is most important for how dialectics between fixity and fluidity. Contesting the idea that the global is a ; When you eat a banana reach of the connections that they have to other you become directly connected into a host of sites.

But Cook is also interested in the disconnections these fruit networks enact. Cognitive and emotional distances are made between the people and places that have these fruit in common. The banana or papaya eater knows the farm worker only as an invisible producer or as Figure 1. Caribbean labourer or the oppressed third Credit: Faced with such these places and their differences into networks, the task of Human Geography being. Third, the local — the specific place, with its distinctive it is debatable whether these processes of qualities — and the global: Rather, they may operate Three general arguments have informed the through the multiple networks that constitute discussion here.

First, that appeals to ideas of both the local and the global. Tracing out these diversity — a global collection of many locals — networks offers a particularly fruitful way of may be problematic: Second, that rather than diversity geographies. What are the strengths and weaknesses of seeing the world as made up of a mosaic of diverse places and peoples? Why are some places, like the USA, so rich and other places, like the Philippines, so poor? The Guilford Press, 50— and — It is worth attempting a read of this for its powerful restatement of a world-systemic approach.

Popular Music, Identity and Place. This is a book that surveys the geographies of popular music, exploring how they combine economic, cultural and political dynamics. I suggest it here because its approach is explicitly framed around seeing the geographies of music as simultaneously global and local, so it provides a great case study if you want to get a sense of how those dual emphases of Human Geography can be combined in practice.

Space, Place and Gender. There are lots of ideas in it about globalizing the local and localizing the global and it is very accessible. How do the fundamental to the experiences of those who differences between groups and individuals occupy, access and are excluded from certain within society map on to, reflect and reinforce spaces. The examples selected are not unique or spatial categories? Do the qualities of different even unusual. They speak of everyday situations places affect how society uses, enjoys and and lives and are drawn from mainstream even accesses those places?

And perhaps geographical topics, underlining the centrality more challengingly — why do some social of the relationship between society and space to characteristics seem to have a much stronger the whole of Human Geography. While we may have on society and space long agreed that Human Geography is about The three phases that will be discussed are this central relationship between space and spatial order and the mapping of social place, how we have chosen to study it has been characteristics; society, space and power; and the subject of much more variation and debate.

A concern with measuring and which such power relations underpinned the predicting the spatial ordering of human organization of space — became a central behaviour dominated Human Geography concern of Human Geography from the s. Much has been written of the most notably Marxist approaches, to show influence of this phase in the development of how space was a product of social forces geography and of the emphasis placed on the and to explain the processes whereby identity identification of scientific laws to explain and difference was reflected in patterns of the spatial organization of human behaviour spatial inequality.

This development in the see Johnston, Here it is important to conceptualization of socio-spatial relations was appreciate the ways in which this scientific particularly significant in research on economic approach resulted in the classification of social restructuring in the UK and the USA in the characteristics and a belief that understanding s. It provided a new understanding of the socio-spatial relations emerged through the spatial distribution of wealth and jobs across systematic and often very detailed mapping of regions, countries and even globally, and of the key population variables.

It also showed, as Massey Social geography was dominated by the idea asserted, the relevance of geography to political of social segregation, showing, through the debate about inequality. Later, concerns grew mapping of characteristics such as race, income, about the assumed dominance of class within housing occupation and how different social radical approaches to the study of society and groups were clustered in, for example, different space. Feminist geographers, in particular, residential areas see Peach, This was a argued that they were failing to recognize the form of social area analysis which thrived on differing experience of men and women and the development of computer mapping were thus blind to the gendered nature of the techniques and on the growing availability of relationship between society and space Bowlby forms of population data such as census and et al.

Such concerns labour market statistics. This kind of geography gave rise to a number of geographical studies became increasingly criticized, however, for of the varying employment experiences of being more concerned with the organization of men and women within regions, communities social patterns than with their explanation and and households McDowell and Massey, for a view of space that assumed neat, fixed Work showed how women were often and objective social ordering. In addition, it disadvantaged within the labour market and, became clear that social area analysis only because of different roles and responsibilities, really included certain social characteristics not able to make the same employment choices those easily mapped and traditionally seen as as men.

Geographers argued, as a result of important , neglecting many that were less easy such work, that the spatial division of labour to study e. Central to social patterns. At this time a major area of played out over space led to a richer and more social geographical research focusing on nuanced geography. It was still a geography, identity became firmly established, notably in however, in which places were seen to reflect the respect to the marginalization of certain groups social characteristics of those who occupied and individuals from particular spaces and them.

Geographers had got much better at places this issue is developed further in showing the subtleties and shifts in the Chapter It became remained effectively a container for social increasingly asserted that difference. While progress had certainly been just as social identities [were] no longer made in moving away from a kind of spatial regarded as fixed categories but. The first was the new ways that were never fixed but always in the sensitivity to the variations between human process of becoming. The summarised in Table 2.

Geographers became interested in what was termed the co-construction of society and space. Will we now discuss in more detail, and particular people in particular places. The idea through the use of examples, how the that space is an active agent in the ways in relationship between society and space has which social relations evolve and play out is come to be understood by geographers as co- now fundamental to geographical study. We can turn to research from almost ways can act to exclude some and protect every area of Human Geography to illustrate others.

These values and understanding of the spaces of the and assumptions drive ideas about which rural plays through the characteristics identities and behaviours we might deem to be and organization of rural society and the appropriate and comfortable in place in those day-to-day ways in which people live their lives. These ideas may shift over time lifestyles have recognized the power of taken- — they may, as we shall see later, be contested, for-granted assumptions about rurality. In but they are often powerful and hard to resist. Such both individual identity and the more general strong expectations of community can prove a operation of the rural community.

Constructions of rural something they had experienced in previous community, as witnessed in many geographical urban places of residence. It ensured people studies see Bell, M. This construction of space of the rural community was socially rural community can support racist behaviour, constructed in line with past understandings as has been shown through studies of the and associated contemporary behaviour to be a experiences of black people and the attitudes of place of friendship and cooperation.

This, in white residents see Hubbard, ; Jay, They have also been and the exclusion of other users of the space concerned with the associated social changes helps to cement the relationship between city to the city and how we use and feel about centre space and drinking. This has, inevitably, included Some studies of this relationship between city contemporary concerns about the behaviour of centres and aggressive and alcohol-fuelled those using urban entertainment spaces and, behaviour have argued that it has reinforced in particular, how city centres have become both spaces and associated identities as constructed as exclusionary spaces, dominated masculine Figure 2.

Charting that its reputation as a party city. They line the research illustrates the different approaches that roads through the city centre to St Mary were introduced at the start of the chapter. As an ambulance public spaces was widely seen as a failure of flashes by, three men are arguing loudly about planning and of the design of buildings and where to go next.

The level of aggression rises spaces — dangerous spaces were believed to be until one stomps off swearing loudly at the the outcome of a development process that other two, who throw something at his back ignored the particular needs of women and which smashes into the gutter. Moreover, the of vulnerability within patriarchal or normalization of aggressive and drunken male-dominated societies. More recently, behaviour is seen to reinforce the drinking however, with the interest in spaces as socially culture.

This emphasis on the and how geography has moved from simply interdependence of identity and place has mapping social characteristics in space to seeing helped in understanding the more nuanced and space as bound up in how those characteristics complex relationship between the aggressive are distributed and performed. We have seen spaces of the night time economy and the that identities may become excluded from performance of gender — particularly the spaces to which they do not belong and also different and very fluid circumstances under how space itself can take on particular qualities which both men and women experience such through the presence or absence of different spaces as dangerous and threatening Pain, identities.

What is very important to stress ; Kern, ; Wesely and Gaarder, They are not fixed but made and re-made and while some Thirdspace relationships between society and space may be acknowledged, like the rural community, to be Throughout this chapter, examples from across a product of historic associations, they are still Human Geography have been used to explore constantly being negotiated and performed. They have shown how different ways of approaching It is this negotiation that needs particular the relationship between people and place can emphasis in this final section of the chapter.

Indeed, writing in the conceptualizations of space as follows: Writing as a black, Challenges to the use of these dichotomies feminist activist, hooks talks in her came in particular from post-colonial and book Yearning of the marginalization of feminist research in geography. Such research African-American subjectivities and their place questioned the construction of knowledge, on the periphery of American political and arguing the need to contest and destabilize intellectual life. According to hooks, this the privileging of what were seen as western, marginality can be used to provide a space, masculine forms of knowledge, and to develop simultaneously material and symbolic, from alternative approaches which recognized the which to challenge the dominant power of the varying and hybrid nature of identity and mainstream and give voice to the ideas, beliefs experience.

Critically, the reworking it into a space of resistance. There are many examples formation of counter-hegemonic cultural we can draw on where space and place give practice to identify the spaces where we begin expression to what may be seen as a challenge the process of re-vision. For many of us, to conventional dualisms, enabling us to look that moment requires pushing against beyond existing categories. Thirdspace oppressive boundaries set by race, sex and class recognizes not only the complex nature of domination.

For me this space of radical identity but also the often contradictory ways openness is a margin — a profound edge. It also hooks, The studies provide a very which they interact. Blunt and Rose argue the need post-colonialism. Many other examples have to deconstruct the binary opposition between also made use of the concept in articulating a colonizer and colonized and in re-thinking the resistance to accepted binary subject positions varying subject positions of women and the and to the spatial politics of oppression.

Take, fixity of constructions of otherness. The for example, the occupation of certain spaces chapters in the book show the complicated by gay, lesbian and bisexual people in gay relationship between gender, race and class pride marches see Figure 2. Such marches and how the subject positions of women in reflect a desire to question and subvert the Figure 2. Notions of belonging, community and exclusion are all central to the understanding of the relationship between society and space. Conclusion differentiation of social and economic characteristics to studies that represented social The study of the relationship between society constructions of space and, finally, studies and space by geographers has developed over that challenged dominant socio-spatial time through the different phases outlined in constructions and focused on space as a form the chapter.

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This development has been of resistance. Some would suggest that such a presented, perhaps rather misleadingly in the development has allowed geographers to think chapter, as a rather neat sequence — primarily to of space in a different way. We have moved assist understanding. In reality, however, it has from thinking of space as simply containing or not been a case of one approach replacing reflecting social difference to being a part of another but rather there has been a shift over how that difference is constructed, performed time from geographical studies that sought and contested.

Why did geographers become dissatisfied with the mapping of spatial patterns and how did they seek to address the limitations of such approaches? What is meant by the term thirdspace and why might we associate this concept with feelings of hope? Nature and Morality in a Country Village. University of Chicago Press. This is a book about a rural community, and provides a detailed examination of how constructions of rural space are formulated and contested by those living and visiting the countryside.

It is helpful in illustrating the idea of the co-construction of space and society as discussed in the chapter. The Extraordinary Geographies of Everyday Life. A series of very accessible chapters that talk about both the way geographers have understood space and also how different identities have experienced everyday space at the local level.

This book explores different spaces of sexual identity, the assumptions and challenges that surround the relationship between sex and space. A challenging book but one which provides a critical discussion of the concept of thirdspace as first used by geographers. Take a close look at the that we stuff in our mouths ingredients listed. And source, sort or standard?

What geographies which one was it? Breakfast, lunch or dinner? If does it disclose? Or discretely pull a veil you can stomach it, then pause for a minute over? Elspeth Probyn offers a few and just remember what you chewed up and quick pointers for the more inquisitive swallowed. Whether it was a smorgasbord or a geographer-eater: And while you go about Mine just gurgled while I edible corn, soya are being turned into wrote these words.

And, as one The experience gets odder still if, only of the most virulent forms of globalization, momentarily, you re-cast universal human there is a seemingly endless circulation of actions — like eating — as being, well, a little bit food scares about things we had thought out of the ordinary Bennett, Keep the that turn mad, eggs that are bad.

What did you scoop from inside the foil casing Half a century ago, Claude Levi-Strauss, or plastic wrap? And what belly of the beast. You might well have eaten about me? By some sorts of judgement, that one kind of flesh quite possibly without even stance makes me a contradiction in terms. The answer is simple cooking. If so, then this could just be conditions of our existence here on Earth. Or, it could be that the absence of forgotten. The attitudes we choice, at some stage earlier in your life, to hold about the lives and the deaths of millions consciously limit the range of foodstuffs that of non-human animals, specifically reared to be you consume.

Possibly this is because you find you powerful ideas bundled up in there and still have to suppress strong carnivorous urges emotions that can pack a punch. And, when it for a certain taste, tang and texture. For many comes to the central concern of this chapter, among us, the first bite taken from a bacon roll the edibility of non-human animals might be is hard to beat, whatever the time of day. A tumbledown world is widely predicted and non-human agency projected, rather than a perfect one. Elements As geographers today are coming to realize, it of it have even arrived early.

Such a project has the placing in question generally accepted potential to radically alter the way that you orthodoxies about ontology, that is to say the configure the everyday world around you, in very nature and reality of existence. According ways reaching far beyond the bounds of our to post-human principles, rather than bodies introductory exercise about personal patterns or matter being conceived in terms of fixed, of consumption, and that demand new essential states, their properties are instead to mind-maps to navigate by.

Rethinking relations be understood as vital and always in flux. To has real kinds of analytical and material acknowledge this restlessness and vitality is also consequence, redrawing what we understand as to accept that non-human entities have real and the very constitution, and the basic boundaries, significant agency. If these words back, to spread virally or with volatility, to already begin to read like a significant challenge undermine the great certainties of human will, to generally accepted values — by decentring our to evade or corrupt original designs, or simply separate condition as human beings — then that to move beyond our full control.

Depending on your view, they hold of a world populated by post-human entities, significant promise or pose real threats. As scientific visionaries plan possible used to tell us why we are the way we are. These are really big considerations to appreciation of organisms and physical take on. Should some reassurance be necessary phenomena as things with an individual as we delve deeper into the world of human existence, identifiably separate and sealed, and non-human relations, it might prove is being buffeted about.

The future is no helpful if I elaborate on a new typology of longer the heady stuff of science fiction as it non-humans and hybrid entities. Just to begin, numbered here would be the entire animal kingdom, all fauna inclusive of birds, fish and insects. Every kind of flora too: But then what of living things that are less easily mapped upon, or tracked across a landscape, operating at a micro or molecular scale, perhaps internal to bodies? They need accounting for too. So the geography unfolding is one also inclusive of the bacteria and the bacillus, the germ and the genetically modified life form.

After all, in the twenty-first century, the pervasive presence of biotechnology has begun to normalize to a degree where public attitudes seem increasingly tolerant or unquestioning about the most Figure 3. Biotech text and image of all sorts of animals, real and innovations range from crops of Canola, imaginary, monstrous and fabulous.

British Library digest plant phosphorous more efficiently and less toxically. For a start, this will mean reconfiguring some standard disciplinary labels and accepted classificatory terms — those first enshrined in school classrooms and still in common usage in university lecture theatres. So, what happens if we expand the domain of our given subject Figure 3. Non-human agency Pistorius runs using Cheetah Flex-Foot carbon flourishes, in everything from the yeasts that rise fibre transtibial artificial limbs, fitted below in bread to fruit crops that fall from trees, in the tides generating supplies of renewable energy to the pulses that transmit electrical power to industrial destinations and domestic households Bennett, The more-than-human realm must also take in genetic data and chemical compounds, the classic experimental apparatus of pipettes and petri dishes, through to laser-guided neuroscience.

It must take in the host of machines, mechanical and digital from robot milking machines for dairy cows to unmanned military drones. It must encompass software environments from android apps to iClouds and online social networks now so very deeply programmed into the fabrics and rhythms of life as to sometimes seem inseparable from the very core of existence.

In certain instances, transplanted or implanted Figure 3. Hi-tech prosthetics, bodies maintaining stabilities in heart-rate or fitted to his kneecaps, enable him to compete at the mood , or they can work as sensory fixes and highest levels of international track competition with anatomical add-ons, augmenting the capacities able-bodied athletes.

In , his personal best for and competencies of naturally evolved human running m stands at In the process, he troubles depend on trans-species fusions to rebuild, internationally accepted rules, set to ensure regenerate and replace parts of bodies. Sporting arbitrators and authorities are questions need to be asked about the possible anxious that the pioneering design of his extent of this experiment in relational thinking.

Is it a case of everything able-bodied athletes. Perhaps the Bladerunner and the kitchen sink? Is it yet might perform superhuman feats, rewrite actually possible to differentiate between sorts the record books and win the human race. Surely, of necessity, there must be Hybrid anatomical designs are not always so some spatial and temporal limits established, glamorous or so quick to grab headlines.

Where and how a patient the option of a cow bone implant to place spatial limits around the interactions as part of a surgical procedure for fusing a of human and non-human is an important replacement denture to a remaining tooth root. Arguably, it is along the threshold of sociology and philosophy. This section will begin that task by Ingold ; has had a telling effect. The subjects of these prevailing environmental theories concerned relations range all the way from wolves with ontological hybridity and fluidity.

Sometimes concerned with animals of extended communities of humans and as symbolic representations and sometimes as non-humans serve to remind us that not substantial lively things, this work ensured that — everything is new under the sun. Geographers whatever the nature of the relation encountered — have taken these ideas on different travels, matters of social power and moral—ethical exploring nearby worlds and familiar concern were kept to the fore.

Such studies of landscapes, the kinds found in fruit orchards inter-species relations have since extended to Jones and Cloke, and among herd include other kinds of non-human agencies animals Lorimer, , showing the meshing and biotechnical assemblages. They consider influential in geography. By this provocation, Latour means to as to include animal lives. Biopower captures expose something he believes has been hiding the human will to regulate conditions of living in plain sight for centuries.

Namely, that the and the nature of life itself. Anxieties non-human beings, involved in spatially also remain about what ultimately is bound distributed interactions, normally through to remain unknowable, since for all the socially equivalent conditions. In the following section, between actors and agents and intermediary I want to turn the focus of attention to an objects and technologies.

It is attentive to a alternative kind of experiment told as a true social realm made up of networks, circulations animal story that will provide some imaginative and translations. It has been applied, rather like resources to work through these ethical and a helpful tool or template, to all manner of moral conundrums. Some geographers have taken up his toolkit, art—agriculture—advocacy using it to explain the ways that water vole assemblage conservation happens Hinchliffe et al. Well, in the British countryside Woods, and sort of. Truth be told, this most traditional how elephants were hunted in the British kind of transaction took place by more modern Empire Lorimer and Whatmore, What results from this eleven piglets born to a sow on a family-run melding together of social, natural and piggery in Kent, England.

You can see technical environments? Bruno Latour has the invoice No. Over the next 20 In so doing, he aims to provide the practical months, Herbert amassed an archive of field impetus for a new social ideal, where emerging and farm recordings that track the lifecycle of sciences and technologies can be subject to the pig, all the way from birth to slaughter public scrutiny, and as a consequence become to plate.

As his purchase steadily put on the more transparent. To animal-rights activism and animal husbandry, different degrees, this work still struggles with travelling all the way from farm to fork, and concerns raised about anthropomorphism, or then to places beyond. Accidental Records Ltd Date: Nor is he a existing samples in their work. He is a musician — critically that sounds should come live-from-life. I can describe the real in the frame of used in his recordings. On The also disorienting and disturbing.

Plat Du expression and occupying unexpected spaces. Jour, another activist album, contains one track The album artwork see Figure 3. It is a musical portrait of of by-products derived from body parts pig an animal bred, ultimately, for human trotter candelabra, pig fat candles, a pigskin consumption. In the process, Herbert attempts drum. The drum was one of the percussion various things: So is it a recording to relish? You can decide for yourself by listening at: I should be honest. Spliced through the crunchy beats and melodic blips are classic farmyard sounds hay shuffling under foot and trotter , darker echoing squeals, distorted grunts, a chorus of competing snorts and oinks, mechanical clunks and clangs, a medley of manipulated scraping, sucking, sipping and slurping sounds, a knife being sharpened then cleaned, perhaps?

The company with pigs during field recordings at a piggery. The pig is now dead. He described the shows as an alternative kind of remembrance service, the music built from memories of the ghost-pig, and backed by slide projections from its former life a bit like a farm-family album. Digital and material technologies were crucial to the spectacle of pig re-presentation. Performances centred on the Figure 3.

It is played by plucking and pulling, actions that activate a Audience participation was encouraged. As a series of sound modules. Part way through the finale, taste samples were dished out to the set, a chef joined the musicians on stage. The most curious on the dance floor, an act sizzling sound of pork frying was amplified.

Instead there will be local geographies of reaction, ranging from opposition to enchantment. Between global meat industry. Quite possibly it was, in its short life. But for all the creaturely wonder creaturely wonder and engendered, ultimately this single animal animal welfare befell the same fate.

Her unflinching account of a foodstuffs Highmore, Pork is a The pig carcass is put in hot water at 60 key foodstuff catering to growing appetites and degrees Celsius to loosen its hairs. The pig is shifting dietary patterns among the expanding wet and slippery when it comes out of the populations of Asia. As well as pork, UK We might feel like we know that script.

But exports of live breeding pigs to China are being what stuff really matters here? It seems that stepped up. As sentient keep the production line going, supplemented human-animals we feel the suffering of others. What we have here are sites, flows establishing a new relational ethics that can and things in the shape of farming practices, encompass more of life that is more-than- health protocols, live animals, trade emissaries, human. We must also acknowledge that these rendered meat, food safety officers and bodily relational ethics will shift in shape and fluids all on the move around the globe.

For expression, according to the multiple beings Emma Roe, this is a situation raising critical enrolled into their constitution and the locally issues around standards of animal welfare and global spaces in which they keep on taking about the material realities of agri-industrial place. What parts of the post-human condition are you comfortable about, and what bits make you most concerned?

What happens to your normal daily round of work and leisure activities if you try to rethink them as assemblages of hybrid entities, enrolled together by relations and connections? Discuss whether the concept of more-than-human geographies might have significant implications for physical geography.

Read through a daily newspaper online or hard copy and try to identify an article or feature that is concerned with something that poses a challenge to the idea of sealed-in human and non-human entities. Geoforum 34 4 — A short commentary piece that throws open the possibility of thinking about the world as populated by monsters, old and new.

Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 24 4 — A paper that explores how it is possible to entwine the life stories of the humans and animals that make up a herd and the place of indigenous knowledge systems in this social arrangement.

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Non-Representational Theories and Geography. A book chapter offering a detailed and insightful consideration of the ethics of the meat industry. It draws on fieldwork findings from inside the slaughterhouse and leaves very little to the imagination. An excellent, radical and influential book that explains the theoretical conditions for thinking of geographies as hybrid.

Alternatively, courtesy of Micachu, you can listen to an EP of dancefloor-friendly remixes of original One Pig tracks. Rapid changes opposition to the old and the traditional. In post-Roman Europe the could claim to be qualitatively different from term modernus was used to distinguish a previous ones. Stephen Kern, for instance, Christian present from a pagan past Johnston summarizes the changes that were taking place et al. Towards the end of the eighteenth innovations including the telephone, century, the term modern acquired another wireless, telegraph, x-ray, cinema, bicycle, meaning, this time denoting a qualitative automobile and airplane established the and not just a chronological difference from material foundation for this reorientation; pervious eras.

To live in a modern age denoted independent cultural developments such not just newness but also progress and as the stream of consciousness novel, betterment. Linked to the Enlightenment psychoanalysis, Cubism, and the theory search for rational scientific thought, the idea of relativity shaped consciousness directly. Their artistic, cultural and movement which significantly did not label aesthetic expression was called modernism.

So, itself as another stage in modernity. Instead it while ideas of being modern can be traced back self-consciously proclaimed itself to be several centuries, notions of modernity and postmodern — to be different from, and modernism coalesced around a very particular moving beyond modernity. In the arts and twentieth-century experience — one to be literature, in philosophy and in the social especially found in the emerging cosmopolitan sciences, postmodernism and postmodernity urban centres of Berlin, Paris and New York.

The houses we live in, the offices to trace the continuities and discontinuities and factories we work in, the chairs we sit on between the modern and the postmodern and and the tables we sit at, and the graphic design to sketch how geography and geographers have we see around us — on shop fronts and in been influenced by, and in turn influenced, newspapers and magazines — have all been both movements. To be modern is to find ourselves in an environment that promises us adventure, power, joy, growth, transformation of ourselves and the world — and, at the same time, that threatens to destroy everything we have, everything we know, everything we are.

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