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Landscape as a Provocation

Reflections on Moving Mountains

Bibliographic Data

ID2390871
AuthorsDoreen Massey (Open University, UK, corresponding author)
Year2006
Volume11
Issue1-2
Pages33-48
Publication date2006-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Material Culture (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1359-1835 • E-ISSN: 1460-3586
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1359183506062991
OpenAlexW2157600204
LanguageEN
Citations received140
References cited13

This article opens with a story of the mobility and varied temporalities of a particular landscape and uses this to reflect on a range of issues that revolve around the different kinds of 'grounding' that are appealed to in sociocultural, political and academic life. It reflects upon the relations between human and natural sciences, the nature of appeals between them, and the important, but often questionable, place within this of particular political positions. It goes on to query the role of 'Nature' as a grounding to place and landscape and stresses the potentially differential effectivities of contrasting temporalities - between, for example, the temporalities of the taskspace and the temporalities of tectonics. Nonetheless, the argument continues, there are indeed provocations from the moving rocks to the nature of scientific discourse and to debates within political philosophy. It concludes with a conceptualization of both landscape and place as events

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Argument (complex analysis · Conceptualization · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Linguistics · Natural (archaeology · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociocultural evolution · Sociology · Temporalities · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Law · Philosophy

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Citation span1969 - 2026 (58)
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