In quest of a new humanism
Embodiment, experience and phenomenology as critical geography
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8093258 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kirsten Simonsen (Roskilde University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 10-26 |
| Publication date | 2012-12-07 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Progress in Human Geography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0309-1325 • E-ISSN: 1477-0288 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0309132512467573 |
| OpenAlex | W2150002000 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 120 |
| References cited | 35 |
During the last 20 years anti-humanist and posthumanist thinking have gained a strong foothold in human geography. This development has indisputable benefits regarding our understanding of the power-knowledge complex, representation and ‘new materialisms’, respectively, but it has also had a troubled relationship to the comprehension of lived experience, notions of agency and politics. This paper aims to explore how a practice-oriented re-reading of phenomenology can contribute to a ‘new humanism’ after anti-/posthumanism. The paper starts from a research study on ‘The Stranger, the city and the nation’, which I have recently completed with my colleague Lasse Koefoed. The purpose is to embed the subsequent philosophical discussions in their consequences for the empirical analysis of social life. The re-reading of phenomenology revolves around three issues: thinking the body as a phenomenal, lived body; orientation and disorientation in the directions and possibilities of social life; and the phenomenological travel along the anti-/posthumanist lane. The paper concludes with a suggestion of a ‘new humanism’ that avoids the rationalist and self-righteous claims of the old ones but maintains elements of the experiential dimension of social life, the acknowledgement of the other and the significance of human agency
Acknowledgement · Aesthetics · Agency (philosophy · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Humanism · Phenomenology (philosophy · Political science · Posthumanism · Social science · Sociology · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Historical Geography and Geographical Thought · Law · Philosophy · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism
Phenomenology
Bodies and Embodiment
Geography (Human and Urban)
Swimming as an accretive practice in healthy blue space
Displacement beyond dislocation
Utopian/Dystopian Lebanon
‘Powerless to separate from the clouds’
Sensory Experiences in the Roman North
Winter-Cities and Mood Disorder
Dynamic Non-humans in a Changing World
‘A square peg in a round hole’. Transgender and gender diverse youth and schooling in South Africa
How Does Place Matter to Highly Skilled Migrants
Celebrating humanistic geography and forecasting its robust future via phenomenology
Bodies-in-waiting as infrastructure
What Space for Female Subjectivity in the Post-Secular
Clinical geography
On becoming political
Pandemic disorientations and reorientations as legacies
The geography of the life-world – Spatialising the social theory of Alfred Schütz
Beyond the Flâneur
A Place Belongs Forever”
Medical Bodily Unhoming
Anti-Frontiers in Zineing
Refugees’ Encounters With Nordic Rural Areas–Darkness, Wind and “Hygge”
Matter, affect, life
New figurations of freedom
Feeling out of it
Orientation, disorientation, reorientation
Who am ‘I’
Rethinking Spatial Socialisation as a Dynamic and Relational Process of Political Becoming
Labor, digital farming, and the politics of affect
The arctic migration route
Science and culture in the Kerguelen Islands
Towards a progressive home-making
Geopolitics and the geographer
Negotiating body and power in forensic mental health care
Children as community planners
Collapsing contexts
Difference, becoming and rhizomatic subjectivities beyond ‘otherness’. A posthuman framework for intercultural communication
Young refugees’ feelings of belonging? Encounters with rural Denmark and northern Norway
Contemplative practices
Landscaping Selves Through Parkour
The Skills Behind the Spatial Practices
Positionality, post-phenomenology, and the politics of theory
Bodies, building and bricks
Frida Kahlo as Feminist Geographer
The perpetual becoming of humanity
What time does the bell ring? Problems and potentialities in experiences of temporality in school
Embodied Othering Encounters with Muslim(‐Looking) Passengers
Embodied cognitive ecosophy
Why do we care about post‐humanism? a critical note
Citizen-subject formation as geosocialization
Maurice Blanchot’s troubling geography
Bodies and persons
Moral re-turns in geography. Chora
Political will and human geography
Captive bodies, prison geographies, and the somatic carceral condition
The city as an information system
Placing Sense of Community
To be visible yet remain unseen
Fear of crime and affective ambiguities in the night-time economy
Shedding Some (More) Light in Bourdieu's Habitus and Doxa
Monitoring ecological change in UK woodlands and rivers
The victorious battles of the lost war against aquatic invasive plants
Living a ‘shadow life’
Ecological kin‐making in the multispecies muddle
No one likes that judgmental look like you are a terrorist.” Sensorial encounters with the Muslim Other in Amsterdam
Toward an affective geography of contemporary China’s state-owned enterprises
The Intangible Nation
Proximity, subjectivity, and space
What ever happened to quantum geography? Toward a new qualified naturalism
Safety, surveillance and policing in the night-time economy
Kinder cuts and passionate modesties
Embodied urban political ecology
Rural-Urban Blurring and the Subjectivity Within
Post‐phenomenology and space
Illuminights
The common life of yards
Mind over matter? On decentring the human in Human Geography
Placing the Anthropocene
New Energy Geographies
Dwelling and tourism
Is post-phenomenology a critical geography? Subjectivity and difference in post-phenomenological geographies
What remains of the intersubjective
Dwelling in the tourist landscape
Geography and ethics III
Political geography III
How is space made in sound? Spatial mediation, critical phenomenology and the political agency of sound
Geography and post-phenomenology
Vital aspirations for geography in an era of negativity
Repeat photography, post‐phenomenology and “being‐with” through the image (at the First World War cemeteries of Asiago, Italy)
Entangled phenomenologies
Re‐spiritualising geographies of subjectivity through Daoism
Disability and fieldwork
Exploring experiences and emotions sport event volunteers associate with 'role exit
Posthumanism, New Humanism and Beyond
Celebrity humanitarianism and the popular geopolitics of hope along the Thai-Burma border
A geographer looks at the landscape, once more
Spacing the subject
Rethinking relational ideas of place in more-than-human cities
Spatial Formations
Orientations Matter
Feminism and geography
Non-Representational Theory
Outline of a Theory of Practice
The Site of the Social
On Female Body Experience
The Logic of Practice
“How Shall I Say it … ?” Relating the Nonrelational
For the love of pipes and cables
Experiencing Discourse
Globalized fear? Towards an emotional geopolitics
The Corporeal Order of Things
Matter(s) in social and cultural geography
Querying posthumanisms
Affect – an ethnocentric encounter? Exploring the ‘universalist’ imperative of emotional/affectual geographies
Questioning affect and emotion
The production of space
Rethinking Agency
Practice, Spatiality and Embodied Emotions
Making connections and thinking through emotions
Geographies of responsibility
Bodies, sensations, space and time
Corporeal Remains
Why can't I get married?'-Denmark and the 'Twenty-four year law
A phenomenology of fear
| Unique citing works | 120 |
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| Citations per year | 10 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2026 (13) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 120 |