Between endings and beginnings

‘Detachment’ and (non)relations in contemporary human geography

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ID8131707
AutoresBen Anderson (0000-0002-9541-6142, Durham University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2026
Volumen50
Número4
Páginas417-433
Fecha de publicación2026-02-12
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaProgress in Human Geography (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0309-1325 • E-ISSN: 1477-0288
EditorialSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/03091325261426498
OpenAlexW7128682474
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas65

This paper offers a theory of detachment as a distinctive social-spatial (non)relation as a contribution to recent debates about relations and relationality in contemporary human geography. It argues that ‘detachment’ has thus far served as other to and problem for the literatures concerned with (non)relational geographies. As part of an approach to relationality that advocates for an orientation to multiple, different kinds of (non)relation, the paper proposes three complementary understandings of detachment: detachment as the absence of a promise; detachment as the imminent loosening of a promise; and detachment as the ending of a promise

Human body · Human geography · Orientation (vector space · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Historical Geography and Geographical Thought · Urban Planning and Governance

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