For a new weird geography

Bibliographic Data

ID8089997
AuthorsJ Turnbull (0000-0002-2430-9884, University of Cambridge, corresponding author), Brian Platt (0000-0002-7232-443X, University of Cambridge), A Searle (0000-0002-5319-895X, University of Liège)
Year2022
Volume46
Issue5
Pages1207-1231
Publication date2022-08-04
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueProgress in Human Geography (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0309-1325 • E-ISSN: 1477-0288
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/03091325221116873
OpenAlexW4289767126
LanguageEN
Citations received38
References cited160

The contemporary ecological condition is one of ‘global weirding’, a term coined to describe both anthropogenically changed worlds and the experience of dwelling within them. In this paper, we foreground New Weird fiction as a progressive literary style, distinct from its problematic roots, with conceptual import to human geography. Through attention to the New Weird’s treatment of difference, dis/orientation and ecological relation, these texts provoke geographers to foster a speculative ethics suited to a weirding world. In suggesting this ethical approach, this paper contributes to emerging debates in geography concerning ambivalence, disorientation and affirmation/negation

Aesthetics · Ambivalence · Archaeology · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Geography · Human geography · Linguistics · Negation · Relation (database · Social science · Sociology · Style (visual arts · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology · Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction

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