Walking with a Ghost River

Unsettling Place in the Anthropocene

Bibliographic Data

ID5086037
AuthorsTricia Toso, Kassandra Spooner-Lockyer, Kregg Hetherington
Year2020
Volume1
Issue1
Publication date2020-05-27
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAnthropocenes – Human Inhuman Posthuman (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2633-4321 • E-ISSN: 2633-4321
PublisherUniversity of Westminster Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.16997/ahip.6
OpenAlexW3031075648
LanguageEN
Citations received11
References cited44

The call to explore a different mode of being-human in what many have termed the Anthropocene, is an invitation to think about what it means to live in place in a more expansive and speculative way. It also asks that we take a different starting point for critical inquiry, and rather than pursue an explanatory end, the approach remains 'curious, experimental, open, adaptive, imaginative, responsive and responsible' (Gibson et al. 2015: i-ii). This paper charts the messy, and often faltering methodologies we have developed as a means of thinking through urban landscapes of colonial violence, and engaging with the ghostly forms of past histories in present-day urban places through the multi-sensorial experience of walking. In attending to the many complex connections and relationships between socio-economic, techno-political, and the more-than-human world, we broadened our lens of inquiry to include the multitude of related and interconnected spatial and temporal relationships that came across our path, and sought to develop a mode of ethical relationing with a ghost river

Aesthetics · Anthropocene · Archaeology · Art · Environmental ethics · Geography · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Water Governance and Infrastructure · History · Philosophy

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