Dialogues in Human Geography

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Roberts, Tom

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Geographic theorisations of the ‘non-’ or ‘more-than-human’ continue to play a significant role in disrupting anthropocentrism within the humanities and social sciences. This article explores how Alfred North Whitehead's philosophy can contribute to geography's more-than-human aspirations, focussing on his radically non-anthropocentric theory of experience. Situating his work within geography's recent speculative turn, I unpack the implications of Whitehead's philosophy in relation to three key areas of concern in more-than-human geographies, namely new materialism, affect theory, and (neo-)vitalism. In doing so, I show how geographical critiques of anthropocentric thinking stand to gain from a deeper engagement with Whitehead's work.

Lobo, Michele

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This commentary illuminates how Whitehead's vitalistic ethos and speculative philosophy mobilises decolonial leaps in more-than-human geographies. These risky leaps that unsettle apocalyptic, commonsense western literacies of planetary crises call for daring and experimentation. Amid the ongoing brutality of a racial, colonial, and capitalist logics, perhaps Whitehead and Roberts are accomplices in decolonial leaps that contribute to a planetary consciousness.

Chandler, David; Pugh, Jonathan

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We respond to the generosity of the commentaries on The World as Abyss, elaborating how Abyssal Geography problematises what we call the ‘Geographic Subject’ and Human Geography as an irreconcilably modern discipline.

Kumar, Ankit

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Craggs, Ruth

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