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Elden, Stuart (2021) Terrain, politics, history. Dialogues in Human Geography, 11 (2). pp. 170-189. doi:10.1177/2043820620951353 ISSN 2043-8206.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/2043820620951353
Abstract
This article is based on the 2019 Dialogues in Human Geography plenary lecture at the Royal Geographical Society. It has four parts. The first discusses my work on territory in relation to recent work by geographers and others on the vertical, the volumetric, the voluminous, and the milieu as ways of thinking space in three-dimensions, of a fluid and dynamic earth. Second, it proposes using the concept of terrain to analyse the political materiality of territory. Third, it adds some cautions to this, through thinking about the history of the concept of terrain in geographical thought, which has tended to associate it with either physical or military geography. Finally, it suggests that this work is a way geographers might begin to respond to the challenge recently made by Bruno Latour, where he suggests that ‘belonging to a territory is the phenomenon most in need of rethinking and careful redescription; learning new ways to inhabit the Earth is our biggest challenge’. Responding to Latour continues this thinking about the relations between territory, Earth, land, and ground, and their limits.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GF Human ecology. Anthropogeography J Political Science > JC Political theory |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Political geography, Geopolitics, Human ecology | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Dialogues in Human Geography | ||||||||
Publisher: | Sage Publications, Inc. | ||||||||
ISSN: | 2043-8206 | ||||||||
Official Date: | 1 July 2021 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 11 | ||||||||
Number: | 2 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 170-189 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1177/2043820620951353 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 28 July 2020 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 30 July 2020 | ||||||||
Is Part Of: | 1 | ||||||||
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