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Apprehending felt futures in Broome, Australia.
- Source :
- Geoforum; Nov2019, Vol. 106, p385-392, 8p
- Publication Year :
- 2019
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Abstract
- This paper demonstrates how the atmospheres of place act upon bodies, provoking thought and mediating the emergence of a more-than- human politics for living in the urban Anthropocene. Taking-place in a remote urban town, it explores the conditioning geographies of Indigenous-led activisms that harness the potential of place in recent political projects. Central to this is a thinking-with Indigenous felt approaches to place, specifically the work of Country as: a concept that maps geographies of belonging, co-existence and reciprocity; a living body that has the capacity to affect and be affected; and, an force that is felt as a diffuse-yet-palpable atmosphere. Through the narratives of Indigenous activists, this paper describes spacetimes of being-with- Country that dwell in the atmospheres and apprehend capacities to act upon and imagine other present-futures. To think of an environmental agent animated by the force of liveliness, is to work through the political status of the non-human, all the while experimenting and making a call for attention to the felt reality of human connection. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- METROPOLITAN government
ACTIVISM
HUMAN geography
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00167185
- Volume :
- 106
- Database :
- Supplemental Index
- Journal :
- Geoforum
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 139276883
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2019.03.002