Geographies of the impossible
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8106527 |
|---|---|
| Authors | L Pohl (0000-0002-7944-301X, HafenCity University Hamburg, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 366-370 |
| Publication date | 2023-06-05 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Dialogues in Human Geography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2043-8206 • E-ISSN: 2043-8214 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/20438206231177069 |
| OpenAlex | W4379514899 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
| References cited | 10 |
In this commentary, I trace the potential of ‘the impossible’ as a spatio-temporal category for geographical research. I proceed from the assumption that the impossible takes on an ever more prominent role in the contemporary zeitgeist, especially in light of current crisis dynamics, such as pandemics, climate change, or the threat of nuclear warfare. When the impossible ‘takes place’, it receives a geography, or means the end of geography. Geographies of the impossible suspend taken-for-granted facts, pave the way for new actors, function according to their own logic, and create spaces for extraordinary encounters. Studying these geographies encourages scholars to engage with dystopian and apocalyptic but also utopian and revolutionary spatialities as well as follow the desire to make possible tomorrow what is impossible today
Aesthetics · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 · Dystopia · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Function (biology · Political science · Sociology · Zeitgeist · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Philosophy · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Water Governance and Infrastructure
What repoliticisation means and requires
Mission impossible? The fugacity of the new and the persistence of the old as mechanisms of un-making futures
The future’s impossible disciplines
The impossible and its vicissitudes
Subjective destitution, love, and rebellion in pandemic times
Quantifying the Future
Imagined futures in sustainability transitions
We need long-term thinking, predictability, and reliability.” Imagined futures of the German heating and housing transition
Uneven ambient futures
The poetics of knowledge in the Anthropocene
Exploring the dynamics of energy democracy and institutional configurations
Sustainability and impossible worlds
Apocalyptic nothingness
Promises of the Political
The Great Derangement
The empty city
Geographies of the future
Apocalyptic urban surrealism in the city at the end of the world
Preemption, precaution, preparedness
Surviving the Turbulent Future
The unbearable lightness of climate populism
Speculative futures
Playing with the future
| Unique citing works | 13 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |