Vital aspirations for geography in an era of negativity

Valuing life differently with Deleuze

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ID8099141
AuthorsT Roberts (0000-0002-8214-4424, UNSW Canberra, corresponding author), JD Dewsbury (UNSW Canberra)
Year2021
Volume45
Issue6
Pages1512-1530
Publication date2021-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueProgress in Human Geography (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0309-1325 • E-ISSN: 1477-0288
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0309132521996462
OpenAlexW3135459601
LanguageEN
Citations received15
References cited57

Human geography has seen a vitalist renaissance over the past decade; however, geography’s concerns are mounting in relation to vitalism’s critical efficacy and political relevance. This article pushes back against these concerns. Drawing on the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, we engage with vitalism as a critical pause and consequently as a vital aspiration in an intellectual climate that is growing increasingly enamoured of negativity as the barometer of serious thinking. In sum, we show how Deleuze’s ‘non-organic vitalism’ promotes a wilder sense of thinking and a more affirmative politics, without acquiescing to the problems of the present

Art history · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Negativity effect · Political science · Politics · Relation (database · Social science · Sociology · The Renaissance · Vitalism · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Historical Geography and Geographical Thought · History · Law · Philosophy · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Psychology · Social Psychology

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