Cultural geography and enchantment

The Affirmative Constitution of Geographical Research

Datos Bibliográficos

ID8094711
AutoresHilary Geoghegan (0000-0003-1401-8626, University of Reading), Tara Woodyer (0000-0002-1451-7532, University of Portsmouth, autor de correspondencia)
Año2014
Volumen31
Número2
Páginas218-229
Fecha de publicación2014-05-02
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Cultural Geography (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0887-3631 • E-ISSN: 1940-6320
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/08873631.2014.906850
OpenAlexW1998285078
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas21
Referencias citadas41

Thrift (2008, p. 65) has identified disenchantment as " [o]ne of the most damaging ideas" within social scientific and humanities research.As we have argued elsewhere, "[m]etanarratives of disenchantment and their concomitant preoccupation with destructive power go some way toward accounting for the overwhelmingly 'critical' character of geographical theory over the last 40 years" (Woodyer and Geoghegan 2013).Through its experimentation with different ways of working and writing, cultural geography plays an important role in challenging extant habits of critical thinking.In this paper we use the concept of 'enchantment' to make sense of the deep and powerful affinities exposed in our research experiences and how these might be used to pursue a critical, yet more cheerful way of engaging with the geographies of the world

Character (mathematics · Constitution · Critical geography · Critical theory · Cultural geography · Disenchantment · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Geography · Human geography · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Social science · Sociology · Adventure Sports and Sensation Seeking · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Philosophy