Sensing the River Torne

Luminous Encounters in the Riverine Archive

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3775435
AutoresMirjami Lantto (0000-0002-6726-2799, University of Glasgow, autor correspondente)
Ano2025
Volume115
Fascículo2
Páginas243-263
Data de publicação2025-02-07
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAnnals of the American Association of Geographers (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2469-4452 • E-ISSN: 2469-4460
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/24694452.2024.2415698
OpenAlexW4404244404
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências citadas58

This article explores the luminous exchanges that animate contemporary Western geoscience ways of imagining the Earth. Inquiring into fluvial geomorphology, it employs creative research practice and feminist materialist ideas to interrogate the multiple roles of light in the ways in which rivers become configured, envisioned, and known. Focusing on the River Torne in northern Finland and Sweden, the article contemplates creative gestures of sensing the Torne via various “technologies of light,” which draw the researcher into a haunted, intra-active, and ecological exchange with the riverscape. This immersive engagement with the Torne prompts reflection on the particular riverine knowledges, ecologies, and archives that become presenced in luminous research encounters—prompting a recognition of a distributed cognition in our practices of knowing riverscapes. In the process, the geomorphological notion of a riverscape archive becomes situated amid complex ecologies of light, which invites a radical commitment to the memory and lively potentiality of place and encourages care-full research entanglements within our luminous research archives

Environmental resource management · Geography · Remote sensing · Archaeological Research and Protection · Environmental Science · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Water Governance and Infrastructure