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Elden, Stuart (2021) Terrain, politics, history. Dialogues in Human Geography, 11 (2). pp. 170-189. doi:10.1177/2043820620951353

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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
Subjects: G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GF Human ecology. Anthropogeography
J Political Science > JC Political theory
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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1 July 2021Published
21 August 2020Available
21 July 2020Accepted
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
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