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On Geography and Materiality

Anderson, B.; Wylie, J.

Authors

J. Wylie



Abstract

In the context of human geography’s encounter with the problematics that surround matter and materiality, this paper offers a principle that works towards a distinctive material imagination. This principle states that our image of matter should be multiplied, so that it can be attended to as taking place with the properties and capacities of any element or state. We elaborate this principle through three substantive discussions of materiality as turbulent, as interrogative, and as excessive. In doing so we draw upon, in turn, forms of relational materialism associated with actor-network theory, the postphenomenologies of Lingis, the animate or enchanted materialism developed by Bennett, and the figurative and affective (im)materialities of Deleuze. The conclusion clarifies why we do not call for geography to be ‘rematerialised’.

Citation

Anderson, B., & Wylie, J. (2009). On Geography and Materiality. Environment and Planning A, 41(2), 318-335. https://doi.org/10.1068/a3940

Journal Article Type Article
Publication Date Jan 1, 2009
Deposit Date Mar 6, 2009
Journal Environment and Planning A
Print ISSN 0308-518X
Electronic ISSN 1472-3409
Publisher SAGE Publications
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 41
Issue 2
Pages 318-335
DOI https://doi.org/10.1068/a3940
Publisher URL http://www.envplan.com/abstract.cgi?id=a3940