Timothy Hodgetts
Biographic Data
| ID | 132244 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Timothy Hodgetts |
| GIVEN NAMES | Timothy |
| FAMILY NAME | Hodgetts |
| SIGNATURE | HODGETTS T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6633-8942 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 303 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Humanism and its problems
Humanism has been the dominant paradigm in Western thought and culture for several hundred years. But humanism has many critics, and their criticisms continue to mount. This chapter tells how more-than-human geography emerged within the context of humanism’s continuing influence but growing problems. A summary intellectual history of humanism is provided tracing its development through the Enlightenment and the Scientific Revolution. We explain h…
More-than-human knowledge practices
Understanding material worlds as more-than-human achievements requires a theory of what knowledge is and how it might be produced (a more-than-human epistemology). This chapter examines the practices through which more-than-human geographers produce knowledge. Five key practices are identified: (i) learning to be affected by the ‘push of the world’; (ii) tracing the networks, relations, and processes through which more-than-humans cohere; (iii) p…
Epilogue
We have been on a heady tour through the literatures of more-than-humanism. We have moved far from the humanist world of rational minds floating in bodies that are bounded from their environments. We have encountered animals with agency, technologies that shape society, and geological forces with the power to reconfigure civilisations. We have learnt to place science in its social context, tracing the materials and embodied practices through whic…
The tensions within and prospects for more-than-humanism
More-than-humanism is subject to internal debate and external criticism. This final chapter focuses on the critiques of more-than-humanism offered by four proximal fields of academic enquiry: Marxist political ecology, indigenous and black studies, critical animal studies, and science studies. It identifies three main categories of critique. First, that ‘flat ontologies’ (theories that emphasise the ability of nonhumans and things, as well as hum…
More-than-human politics and ethics
More-than-human geographies are explicitly political and they assert claims about how people should act and respond (or ‘normative’ claims). This chapter examines how the assumptions outlined in Chapters 2 and 3 (about what the world is and how it can be known) lead to specific political interests and ethical commitments asserted in more-than-human geography. It begins with a summary case study, analysing the politics of a singular Nature to show…
More-than-human materialisms
Humans are not unique in being able to shape worlds. This chapter reviews how more-than-humanists have sought to rematerialise social theory and how this theoretical move has been developed within geographic thought. It begins with work considering the materiality of the human body, then shifts attention outward to animal bodies, biological processes, technologies and infrastructures, and the elemental. The writings of several key influential mor…
More-than-Human
This text offers the first book-length introduction to more-than-human geography, exploring its key ideas, main debates, and future prospects. An opening chapter traces the origins and emergence of this field of enquiry and positions more-than-human geography as a response to a set of intellectual and political crises in Western thought and politics. It identifies key literatures and thinkers and reflects on the varying usages and meanings of the…
Setting the agenda for social science research on the human microbiome
The human microbiome is an important emergent area of cross, multi and transdisciplinary study. The complexity of this topic leads to conflicting narratives and regulatory challenges. It raises questions about the benefits of its commercialisation and drives debates about alternative models for engaging with its publics, patients and other potential beneficiaries. The social sciences and the humanities have begun to explore the microbiome as an o…
Making the microbiome public: Participatory experiments with DNA sequencing in domestic kitchens
Recent rapid increases in the capability and affordability of DNA sequencing have enabled scientists to map the microbiome and to identify its associations with a range of health conditions. Concerns are growing that missing microbes might be behind the current rise in inflammatory disease. Microbial absence and dysbiosis have been linked to a range of hygiene practices, fuelling popular anxiety and confusion about being both too clean and the ri…
Animals’ mobilities
This paper draws together animal and mobility studies to develop the concept of animals’ mobilities. It identifies the parallel intellectual interests in these fields that provide the intellectual foundations for this synthesis, in mobility (over movement), affect, relational space, and ordering practices. It explores what configures an animal’s mobility, knowledge practices for researching and evoking animals’ mobilities, and how animals’ mobili…
Unsettling antibiosis: How Might Interdisciplinary Researchers Generate a Feeling for the Microbiome and to What Effect
Decades of active public health messaging about the dangers of pathogenic microbes has led to a Western society dominated by an antibiotic worldview; however recent scientific and social interest in the microbiome suggests an emerging counter-current of more probiotic sentiments. Such stirrings are supported by cultural curiosity around the ‘hygiene hypothesis’, or the idea it is possible to be ‘too clean’ and a certain amount of microbial exposu…
Biogeography
The subdiscipline of biogeography concerns the diversity and distribution of living organisms, investigating where these are found and the possible reasons why. Whereas traditional biogeography focuses almost solely on environmental and ecological factors, a variety of alternative approaches exist which explore geographies of the “bio” in wider terms. Rejecting distinctions between human and nonhuman life, and between natural and cultural spaces,…
Connectivity as a multiple: In, with and as “nature
Connectivity is a central concept in contemporary geographies of nature, but the concept is often understood and utilised in plural ways. This is problematic because of the separation, rather than the confusion, of these different approaches. While the various understandings of connectivity are rarely considered as working together, the connections between them have significant implications. This paper thus proposes re-thinking connectivity as a …
Animals’ atmospheres
This article introduces the concept of animals’ atmospheres, as a contribution to work in animal and atmospheric geographies. It defines the concept and identifies the key factors that shape an animals’ atmosphere. These offer a framework for future comparative research. The second section focuses on methodological and epistemic challenges of knowing and representing animal atmospheres. The third section examines engineering of animals’ atmospher…
Connectivity
Wildlife conservation, multiple biopolitics and animal subjectification: Three mammals’ tales
Foucaultian theories of biopolitics are applied to UK wildlife conservation. • Specifically to the management of red squirrels, grey squirrels, pine martens. • ‘Animal subjectification’ developed to conceptualise techniques of self-government. • Ethical implications of resulting political status of animals assessed
Methodologies for animals' geographies: Cultures, Communication and Genomics
The recent renaissance within animal geography has tended to focus on the spatial orderings of animals by humans, rather than on the lived geographies and experiences of animals themselves. We suggest that one reason for this imbalance is methodological - a persistent commitment to human-centred methods somewhat at odds with the more-than-human aspirations of the sub-discipline. In this paper we review and critically assess methodological develop…
Methodologies for animals' geographies: Cultures, Communication and Genomics
The recent renaissance within animal geography has tended to focus on the spatial orderings of animals by humans, rather than on the lived geographies and experiences of animals themselves. We suggest that one reason for this imbalance is methodological - a persistent commitment to human-centred methods somewhat at odds with the more-than-human aspirations of the sub-discipline. In this paper we review and critically assess methodological develop…
Animals’ atmospheres
This article introduces the concept of animals’ atmospheres, as a contribution to work in animal and atmospheric geographies. It defines the concept and identifies the key factors that shape an animals’ atmosphere. These offer a framework for future comparative research. The second section focuses on methodological and epistemic challenges of knowing and representing animal atmospheres. The third section examines engineering of animals’ atmospher…
Animals’ mobilities
This paper draws together animal and mobility studies to develop the concept of animals’ mobilities. It identifies the parallel intellectual interests in these fields that provide the intellectual foundations for this synthesis, in mobility (over movement), affect, relational space, and ordering practices. It explores what configures an animal’s mobility, knowledge practices for researching and evoking animals’ mobilities, and how animals’ mobili…
Wildlife conservation, multiple biopolitics and animal subjectification: Three mammals’ tales
Foucaultian theories of biopolitics are applied to UK wildlife conservation. • Specifically to the management of red squirrels, grey squirrels, pine martens. • ‘Animal subjectification’ developed to conceptualise techniques of self-government. • Ethical implications of resulting political status of animals assessed
More-than-Human
This text offers the first book-length introduction to more-than-human geography, exploring its key ideas, main debates, and future prospects. An opening chapter traces the origins and emergence of this field of enquiry and positions more-than-human geography as a response to a set of intellectual and political crises in Western thought and politics. It identifies key literatures and thinkers and reflects on the varying usages and meanings of the…
Unsettling antibiosis: How Might Interdisciplinary Researchers Generate a Feeling for the Microbiome and to What Effect
Decades of active public health messaging about the dangers of pathogenic microbes has led to a Western society dominated by an antibiotic worldview; however recent scientific and social interest in the microbiome suggests an emerging counter-current of more probiotic sentiments. Such stirrings are supported by cultural curiosity around the ‘hygiene hypothesis’, or the idea it is possible to be ‘too clean’ and a certain amount of microbial exposu…
Making the microbiome public: Participatory experiments with DNA sequencing in domestic kitchens
Recent rapid increases in the capability and affordability of DNA sequencing have enabled scientists to map the microbiome and to identify its associations with a range of health conditions. Concerns are growing that missing microbes might be behind the current rise in inflammatory disease. Microbial absence and dysbiosis have been linked to a range of hygiene practices, fuelling popular anxiety and confusion about being both too clean and the ri…
Connectivity as a multiple: In, with and as “nature
Connectivity is a central concept in contemporary geographies of nature, but the concept is often understood and utilised in plural ways. This is problematic because of the separation, rather than the confusion, of these different approaches. While the various understandings of connectivity are rarely considered as working together, the connections between them have significant implications. This paper thus proposes re-thinking connectivity as a …
Connectivity
Methodologies for animals' geographies: Cultures, Communication and Genomics
The recent renaissance within animal geography has tended to focus on the spatial orderings of animals by humans, rather than on the lived geographies and experiences of animals themselves. We suggest that one reason for this imbalance is methodological - a persistent commitment to human-centred methods somewhat at odds with the more-than-human aspirations of the sub-discipline. In this paper we review and critically assess methodological develop…
Wildlife conservation, multiple biopolitics and animal subjectification: Three mammals’ tales
Foucaultian theories of biopolitics are applied to UK wildlife conservation. • Specifically to the management of red squirrels, grey squirrels, pine martens. • ‘Animal subjectification’ developed to conceptualise techniques of self-government. • Ethical implications of resulting political status of animals assessed
Biogeography
The subdiscipline of biogeography concerns the diversity and distribution of living organisms, investigating where these are found and the possible reasons why. Whereas traditional biogeography focuses almost solely on environmental and ecological factors, a variety of alternative approaches exist which explore geographies of the “bio” in wider terms. Rejecting distinctions between human and nonhuman life, and between natural and cultural spaces,…
Connectivity as a multiple: In, with and as “nature
Connectivity is a central concept in contemporary geographies of nature, but the concept is often understood and utilised in plural ways. This is problematic because of the separation, rather than the confusion, of these different approaches. While the various understandings of connectivity are rarely considered as working together, the connections between them have significant implications. This paper thus proposes re-thinking connectivity as a …
Animals’ atmospheres
This article introduces the concept of animals’ atmospheres, as a contribution to work in animal and atmospheric geographies. It defines the concept and identifies the key factors that shape an animals’ atmosphere. These offer a framework for future comparative research. The second section focuses on methodological and epistemic challenges of knowing and representing animal atmospheres. The third section examines engineering of animals’ atmospher…
Connectivity
Animals’ mobilities
This paper draws together animal and mobility studies to develop the concept of animals’ mobilities. It identifies the parallel intellectual interests in these fields that provide the intellectual foundations for this synthesis, in mobility (over movement), affect, relational space, and ordering practices. It explores what configures an animal’s mobility, knowledge practices for researching and evoking animals’ mobilities, and how animals’ mobili…
Unsettling antibiosis: How Might Interdisciplinary Researchers Generate a Feeling for the Microbiome and to What Effect
Decades of active public health messaging about the dangers of pathogenic microbes has led to a Western society dominated by an antibiotic worldview; however recent scientific and social interest in the microbiome suggests an emerging counter-current of more probiotic sentiments. Such stirrings are supported by cultural curiosity around the ‘hygiene hypothesis’, or the idea it is possible to be ‘too clean’ and a certain amount of microbial exposu…
Making the microbiome public: Participatory experiments with DNA sequencing in domestic kitchens
Recent rapid increases in the capability and affordability of DNA sequencing have enabled scientists to map the microbiome and to identify its associations with a range of health conditions. Concerns are growing that missing microbes might be behind the current rise in inflammatory disease. Microbial absence and dysbiosis have been linked to a range of hygiene practices, fuelling popular anxiety and confusion about being both too clean and the ri…
Setting the agenda for social science research on the human microbiome
The human microbiome is an important emergent area of cross, multi and transdisciplinary study. The complexity of this topic leads to conflicting narratives and regulatory challenges. It raises questions about the benefits of its commercialisation and drives debates about alternative models for engaging with its publics, patients and other potential beneficiaries. The social sciences and the humanities have begun to explore the microbiome as an o…
Humanism and its problems
Humanism has been the dominant paradigm in Western thought and culture for several hundred years. But humanism has many critics, and their criticisms continue to mount. This chapter tells how more-than-human geography emerged within the context of humanism’s continuing influence but growing problems. A summary intellectual history of humanism is provided tracing its development through the Enlightenment and the Scientific Revolution. We explain h…
More-than-human knowledge practices
Understanding material worlds as more-than-human achievements requires a theory of what knowledge is and how it might be produced (a more-than-human epistemology). This chapter examines the practices through which more-than-human geographers produce knowledge. Five key practices are identified: (i) learning to be affected by the ‘push of the world’; (ii) tracing the networks, relations, and processes through which more-than-humans cohere; (iii) p…
Epilogue
We have been on a heady tour through the literatures of more-than-humanism. We have moved far from the humanist world of rational minds floating in bodies that are bounded from their environments. We have encountered animals with agency, technologies that shape society, and geological forces with the power to reconfigure civilisations. We have learnt to place science in its social context, tracing the materials and embodied practices through whic…
The tensions within and prospects for more-than-humanism
More-than-humanism is subject to internal debate and external criticism. This final chapter focuses on the critiques of more-than-humanism offered by four proximal fields of academic enquiry: Marxist political ecology, indigenous and black studies, critical animal studies, and science studies. It identifies three main categories of critique. First, that ‘flat ontologies’ (theories that emphasise the ability of nonhumans and things, as well as hum…
More-than-human politics and ethics
More-than-human geographies are explicitly political and they assert claims about how people should act and respond (or ‘normative’ claims). This chapter examines how the assumptions outlined in Chapters 2 and 3 (about what the world is and how it can be known) lead to specific political interests and ethical commitments asserted in more-than-human geography. It begins with a summary case study, analysing the politics of a singular Nature to show…
More-than-human materialisms
Humans are not unique in being able to shape worlds. This chapter reviews how more-than-humanists have sought to rematerialise social theory and how this theoretical move has been developed within geographic thought. It begins with work considering the materiality of the human body, then shifts attention outward to animal bodies, biological processes, technologies and infrastructures, and the elemental. The writings of several key influential mor…
More-than-Human
This text offers the first book-length introduction to more-than-human geography, exploring its key ideas, main debates, and future prospects. An opening chapter traces the origins and emergence of this field of enquiry and positions more-than-human geography as a response to a set of intellectual and political crises in Western thought and politics. It identifies key literatures and thinkers and reflects on the varying usages and meanings of the…
Geographies of human-animal interactions (12 works) · Environmental ethics (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Biology (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works)