Earth Writing
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8090553 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Simon Springer (0000-0002-0064-7440, University of Victoria, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-19 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | GeoHumanities (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2373-5678 • E-ISSN: 2373-566X |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/2373566x.2016.1272431 |
| OpenAlex | W4243840470 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 21 |
| References cited | 60 |
Geography means earth writing, and so it is perhaps fitting that writing itself has become a primary intellectual battleground in contemporary geographical thought. This article advocates for metaphorical earth writing, arguing that it unchains our geographical imaginations from the shackles of our disciplinary past by boldly embracing geopoetics. I hope to spark debate by promoting the undisciplining of geography as a means to open up a theoretical space for voice, where a material space of emancipation might follow. The notion that our epistemological, ontological, and methodological choices are not apolitical decisions without consequence guides my inquiry. Accordingly I critique the accusation of esotericism as a narrative that reifies the false dichotomy between academia and society. Aversion to metaphor fails to recognize the epistemological challenge it raises and underestimates how jargon combats commonsense notions that reinforce hierarchical power relations. How we write the earth constitutes a political choice, where disciplining Others into a singular way of knowing, being, and doing geography is an affront to the possibilities of space. When we make space for earth writing as a beautiful flourishing of geopoetics, we place the earth at the center of experience, releasing the light and energy of a more powerful geography
Aesthetics · Discipline · Epistemology · Jargon · Linguistics · Metaphor · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Social science · Sociology · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Historical Geography and Geographical Thought · Law · Philosophy · Travel Writing and Literature
Planetary Entanglements
Proposals for an Autonomist Rethinking of Academia in the Context of Planetary Crises
Enlivening riverhood through counter-mapping. The ‘evoking the hydrocommons in India and Colombia’
Music After Volcanic Eruptions
Real-Time Mapping With Global Positioning Systems Devices in a Mixed Methods Toolkit for Studying Social and Environmental Change
Communicating with home, coping without home – Trusting to the mediating capacity of blogging
Slow violence and toxic geographies
Experiential Attunements in an Illuminated City at Night
(Re)Mapping Native Denver and the Making of Native Assembled Counter-Cartographies
Climate geopoetics (the earth is a composted poem)
Geographies against bifurcation
Knowing homes and writing worlds? Ethics of the ‘eco-’, ethics of the ‘geo-’ and how to light a planet
Making Sense of Here
Rambling with(in) the Wairarapa
Making connections through intimacy writing
Weathering Three Storms
Poetry as a resonant method for multi-sensory research
Communicating temporalities
Rethinking states of emergency
Teaching Anarchist Geographies
Apocalyptic nothingness
The Past is a Foreign Country
Lines of Power/Limits of Language
The Anarchist Roots of Geography
Poststructuralist Geographies
Structure and Agency in the Neoliberal University
Is There a Text in This Class? The Authority of Interpretive Communities
Distinction
The Consumer Society Reader
Working Feminism
Violent Neoliberalism
Politics, Philosophy, Culture
The Logic of Practice
A Scapelore Manifesto
Practicing Geohumanities
Zombie neoliberalism and the ambidextrous state
Pedagogies of Hope
Human geography without hierarchy
Practice What You Teach
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The Surprising Sense of Hope
Public Space as Emancipation
Confessions of a Desk‐Bound Radical
Spatial Metaphor and the Politics of Empowerment
Domesticating Postmodernism
Becoming Smaller
Introduction
Structural Adjustment Programmes and the City in Tropical Africa
Marginal lands, marginal geographies
The Mandarin Dialect
Geography as an Art
Putting Descartes before Dehors
Fruit of the cyclone
For a Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious Scientific Geography
Violent Accumulation
Meaning Through Metaphor
Neoliberalising violence
On the creative (re)turn to geography
Situating Geopoetics
Weeds, Plagues, and Bodily Secretions
Demand the Possible
What Might GeoHumanities Do? Possibilities, Practices, Publics, and Politics
Poetry, language, thought
Poetic world-writing in a pluriversal world
Creativity and Geography
Other Figures in Other Places
Desiring Agency
Discourse, Text, Location Theory
On the spatiality of the academic job market in critical human geography
A Critique of Postcolonial Reason
Situated Knowledges
Introduction
Geographies of poetry/poetries of geography
| Unique citing works | 21 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,7 |
| Citation span | 1996 - 2026 (31) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 19 |