Moral Horizons of Land and Place

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ID2144995
AuthorsStead (0000-0002-0014-3189, Deakin University, corresponding author), Victoria Stead (Alfred Deakin Institute, Deakin University, Burwood, VIC, Australia), Michèle D Dominy (Anthropology, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, USA)
Year2018
Volume28
Issue1
Pages1-15
Publication date2018-01-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAnthropological Forum (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0066-4677 • E-ISSN: 1469-2902
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00664677.2018.1429251
OpenAlexW2789917532
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited55

A recent ‘moral turn’ in anthropology has cast new light on morality as a subject of ethnographic inquiry, and on the making of moral meaning and judgment. This article, and the special issue it prefaces, contribute to this emergent literature through foregrounding and examining the moral dimensions of land and place. Taking up Didier Fassin’s injunction for a critical moral anthropology – rather than an anthropology of morality – we look to land and place as groundings for moral challenges and practices that are nevertheless not place-bound. A critical moral anthropology of land and place should be directed, we argue, to the interplay of mobility and emplacement, to the dynamics of landscape and ‘dwelling’, and to the multiplicities of expectation and meaning that surround the making and exploitation of resources. In contexts of global and local change, land and place offer productive grounds from which to consider the moral horizons – both spatial and temporal – of our world and our discipline

Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Ethnography · Meaning (existential) · Moral disengagement · Morality · Sociology · Subject (documents) · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Philosophy · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies

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