Search Results for spatial imaginaries

... and alternate modes of relating to and thriving within arid landscapes that refuse these imperial ideologies and colonial spatial imaginaries. The food desert metaphor has been subject to considerable and necessary critiques by scholars and activists, alongside calls for conceptualizing food inequities...

...Aimi Hamraie Abstract This article responds to two diverging notions of “livability”: the normative New Urbanist imaginary of livable cities, where the urban good life manifests in neoliberal consumer cultures, green gentrification, and inaccessible infrastructures, and the feminist and disability...

... astroenvironmentalism as a project not predicated on conquest, progress, or final redemption. The emphasis on progress, underpinning Sagan’s remarks on outer space as the next step of humankind at the start of this article, is displaced by the spatial imaginary of ecological relationality, cycles, and continuums...

... .” Progress in Environmental Geography 2 , nos. 1–2 ( 2023 ): 58 – 76 . Cusworth George , Lorimer Jamie , E and . A. Weldon. “ Farming for the Patchy Anthropocene: The Spatial Imaginaries of Regenerative Agriculture .” Geographical Journal ( 2023 ). https://doi.org/10.1111/geoj...

..., such as the dispossession of land, ecologies, and lifeworlds. Geotrauma is never just erasure; the dam that blocks the water, that blocks the life of the river and its imaginary, is never just gone. As Natalie Diaz says, “When a Mojave says, Inyech ‘Aha Makavch ithuum , we are saying our name. We are telling a story...

... be characterized by more careful use of spatial metaphors, ensuring that ecocriticism and broader environmental humanities work considers the material and physical racial ecologies alongside the discursive and representational environments. [email protected] © 2024 Alex A. Moulton 2024...

... and the specific contributions that performative cartographic processes can offer traditional EH scholarship. The article concludes by arguing that a multidisciplinary synthesis of GIS, digital, and narrative approaches is critical for communicating and exploring shifting spatial relations in the era...

... to national parks, while historically important, is no longer fit for purpose; from a governance perspective, the conservation issues national parks engender must be seen across a variety of different temporal and spatial scales. The second is that understandings of national parks continue to profit from...

... extractive landscapes has always been driven by technologies, whether through everyday uses of industrial tools or shared technological imaginaries. 5 Such senses are not always positive. Much like the domestic spaces structured by violence and unequal power relations examined by feminist geographers, 6...

... and their naturalcultural interactions with toxicity. 1 The ideas of toxic embodiment play out in the social imaginaries of science and popular culture. Toxins have become a widespread and well-known threat to life on the planet, accompanied by iconic photographs of dead killer whales washed ashore. Infertile orcas...

... techniques of humor and spatial disorientation. Health Coach App displays community-based environmental justice concerns in surreal juxtaposition with medical hotspotting’s reliance on geosurveillance and individual health data monitoring as the method of coordinated care. 16 Using techniques of parody...

... ): 535 – 64 . Helmreich Stefan . “ Blue-Green Capital, Biotechnological Circulation, and an Oceanic Imaginary: A Critique of Biopolitical Economy .” BioSocieties 2 , no. 3 ( 2007 ): 287 – 302 . Hinchliffe Steve , Allen John , Lavau Stephanie , Bingham Nick...

... of spatial production.” 21 Antarctica and outer space are here once again conflated as the exploration of mineral and biological resources becomes increasingly viable in the case of outer space, and ever more pressing in Antarctica. Microbial life flourishes in almost every environment on Earth...

... nature to turn it into energy but also shapes the organization of society, the formation of states and political regimes, cultural patterns, and collective subjectivities and imaginaries. This resonates with the formation of the geosocial strata Kathryn Yusoff describes as “geological extractions...

... natural history, popular culture, and the art world demonstrated shared concerns and mutual influence between fields, in a collective movement clearly motivated by the increasingly undeniable ecological threats facing the oceans. Project outputs cumulatively demonstrated that as a spatial and material...

...-not-seen—I will resume this point later. To continue my argument, a word about classification is in order, for which I offer two reminders. First: “A classification is a spatial, temporal, or spatial-temporal segmentation of the world.” 6 Second: “Nothing comes without its world.” 7 Combining...

... , no. 1 ( 2019 ): 22 – 36 . Eshun Kodwo . “ Drexciya as Spectre .” In Aquatopia: The Imaginary of the Ocean Deep , edited by Farquharson Alex and Clark Martin , 138 – 46 . London : Tate Publishing , 2013 . Evers Clifton . “ Polluted Leisure .” Leisure Sciences...

... capitalism as ontological project—using the stone as a lens to explore imaginaries of relational personhood, the distribution of harm, and the limits of vulnerability. In closing, the article relates the “life” of the stone to ongoing discussions about the Anthropocene and how to develop novel, more...

..., to engage in social action, or even to recognize the concomitant grief of ecological degradation. The hidden processes and gradual accretion of environmental crises make them hard to grasp and respond to, especially where impacts occur at a vast spatial or temporal distance from their locus of causation...

... vastly different spatial and temporal scales, was being invoked in this new context by Hess to tell a story about the catastrophic origins of the modern earth in the nuclear age. Hess’s fascination with catastrophe was not completely new for geologists. As Sumathi Ramaswamy has shown, imaginaries...