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{"title":"Becoming-elemental – a thermal imaginary in the Anthropocene","authors":"K. Mchugh","doi":"10.1177/14744740221076525","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14744740221076525","url":null,"abstract":"The Anthropocene problematic calls for imaginative aesthetic experiments fostering more-than-human thought and sensibilities. In this thought experiment, I draw on a sensing device in conjuring a thermal imaginary that decenters the human, espying a glimpse of a strange and uncanny world-without-us. The imaginary is a speculative performance in elemental attunement – becoming-molecular, becoming-imperceptible in the generative potentia of planetary heat – opening a pathway in rethinking bodies and worlds as emergent in, and through, forces elemental and cosmic in scope. The thermal imaginary accentuates the elemental as exorbitant, anonymous, and nonpossessable, an earthly plenum beyond any final capture, possession, mastery and control. Elemental alterity, the very strangeness of the earth, rises in the thermal imaginary as a summons, a calling from the “outside,” gesturing toward an immanent ethics of radical openness working in, and through, earthly bodies always already exposed and vulnerable in the force of the elemental. We must be open to the elemental summons, expanding capacities for what a body can do, moving beyond spinning reductive and redemptive Anthropocene narratives for saving this world. There can be no new bodies and worlds to come in the absence of an elemental ethics worthy of the earth itself.","PeriodicalId":47718,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Geographies","volume":"29 1","pages":"375 - 388"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46161505","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"These streets were ours: remapping Dylan Thomas’s Swansea","authors":"G. Whittaker","doi":"10.1177/14744740221076526","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14744740221076526","url":null,"abstract":"Audio archives are a unique tool that have helped geographers further their spatial analyses of the world. Through listening to voices from the past, the historical geographies of places are revealed and can, then, be used to better understand the numerous narratives that shape a location. But what happens if we take these recordings and reinterpret them, using an artistic lens? Can we create fresh and alternative ways of displaying and doing cultural geography? In this short essay, I demonstrate how I used selected audio archives which discussed the formative years of the life of Welsh poet, Dylan Thomas, to create a video map which combines past and present representations of the city of Swansea, Wales, to reimagine the archives for a 21st-century audience. By doing so, I reflect on how when combined with artistic methods, audio archives can be a vital tool for mapping new and innovative understandings of place.","PeriodicalId":47718,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Geographies","volume":"29 1","pages":"611 - 616"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44946635","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Politics of (dis)assembling – (re)moving borders across Europe","authors":"Friederike Landau-Donnelly","doi":"10.1177/14744740221076523","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14744740221076523","url":null,"abstract":"The paper explores the politics of (dis)assembling borders within Europe. It examines the performance of the Berlin-based artist collective Zentrum für Politische Schönheit (Center for Political Beauty, ZPS) in 2014, in which artist activists temporarily removed white border crosses commemorating death at the former Berlin Wall. With this unauthorized displacement, ZPS sought to problematize ongoing violence and death at European borders. Via a three-part analysis of the performance Erster Europäischer Mauerfall (First European Fall of the Wall), the paper outlines a political framework for understanding art around and against borders – contributing to accounts on border art and the politics of borders. Staged as critique against the official commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the Fall of the Wall, perceived by ZPS as festivalized and thus apolitical event, the multiple performance acts highlight material and emotional movements. They oscillate between past and present border death, commemorated and forgotten border objects, bodies, places. In particular, ZPS aimed to denounce (implicit) hierarchies regarding how and whose death at European borders is remembered via acts of (dis)assembling. By unsolicitedly (re)moving Berlin’s border crosses (Act I), mobilizing over 100 activists to dismantle border fences and temporarily installing replica crosses at Southern EU borders and placing them in the hands of contemporary refugees (Act III), ZPS mobilized public concern about contemporary border politics and commemoration. The paper contributes to border studies that view borders as inherently complex and contingent symbolic, socio-spatial arrangements, which affect and are affected by objects, bodies, and policies that oscillate between contested absence and presence. Accompanied by controversial media coverage, the performance gathered (im)mobile bodies, moving objects, and multiple emotional responses about the what, where and who of Europe. Ultimately, politics of (dis)assembling unfold absence and presence to articulate mo(ve)ments of ‘the political’ as contestation against complacency and border violence.","PeriodicalId":47718,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Geographies","volume":"29 1","pages":"585 - 602"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46091827","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Narrative, the Chilean social explosion, and affective geography: on the catharsis of the ‘artistic candlelight vigil’ of Valparaíso","authors":"Maxwell Woods","doi":"10.1177/14744740221076520","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14744740221076520","url":null,"abstract":"In response to State violence during the so-called ‘Chilean social explosion’ [estallido social], the Valparaíso Coordinator of Cultural Action [Coordinadora acción cultural Valparaíso] (CAC) in collaboration with other cultural groups of Valparaíso as well as other artists who spontaneously improvised during the performance organized on 31 October 2019 an ‘artistic candlelight vigil for human rights’ that passed through the center of the Chilean coastal town of Valparaíso, one ostensible effect of which was to rewrite the affective geography of Valparaíso in response to the violence that had erupted in the city during the 2 weeks prior. This article examines the relationship between this candlelight vigil, the revolutionary autonomist foundations of the Chilean social explosion, and the affective geography of Valparaíso, in addition to developing a broader theorization of the relationship between narrative, revolution, the politics of autonomy, and affective geography through this analysis. In the end, this article makes a double intervention: (1) The ‘artistic candlelight vigil’ in Valparaíso on 31 October 2019 memorializing the victims of State violence was an effective catharsis of the discordant affects held by Chilean protestors during the social explosion. (2) This example of catharsis demonstrates a new resolution to the relationship between narrative, revolution, and affective geography by proposing that art can work through the discordant affects of a polity in order to arrive at an autonomous urban communality from below.","PeriodicalId":47718,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Geographies","volume":"29 1","pages":"419 - 433"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43200392","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Book review: Bodies, Affects, Politics: The Clash of Bodily Regimes","authors":"Samuel Berlin","doi":"10.1177/14744740221076522","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14744740221076522","url":null,"abstract":"pleasingly jarring exploratory experience. For example, a social history of Buckley Space Force Base coexists just a few clicks away from Jeff Gipe’s provocative 2015 memorial artwork, Cold War Horse. An image of the controversial Candelas housing development adjacent to Rocky Flats is a mere page away from a short essay by Katherine Schmidt on the Maybell Disposal Site. In this way, the Atlas condenses nuclear space and time. The featured essays are elegant and diverse in scope. They include authors such as Stephanie Malin, A. Laurie Palmer and Gretchen Heefner. Artistic highlights include Abbey Hepner’s ‘Uravan’, which is a collection of laser-cut engravings of the vanished uranium mill town of Uravan, superimposed onto the contemporary landscape. Allan Ginsberg’s wry 1978 ‘Plutonian Ode’ to Rocky Flats plutonium pit manufacturing plant and Claudia X. Valde’s poignant flag-based work, ‘For the Future, With Love’, are also featured. The cartography page within the Atlas offers a comprehensive, simple, and clickable A–Z of each nuclear site in Colorado. Upon selection, each location includes a brief referenced description and a link to a relevant keyword; for example, ‘Deployment, Training, Command and Control’ or ‘Refining’. However, the overarching site is deliberately multicursal, which creates a meandering but occasionally aimless user experience. While this format mirrors the anfractuous nature of nuclear issues, it may also create some navigational challenges for the casual reader. However, the inclusion of multiple pathways is creative, and does offer insights into the complexity and connectivity of nuclear places and mobilities. This project is representative of a larger inclusive turn in cultural geographies, more generally. While the Atlas is currently set across Colorado and its hinterland, I envisage that the globalised nature of the nuclear industrial establishment could offer an expansion upon this original work. Perhaps, in due course, we can hope for ‘A People’s Nuclear Atlas of the World’.","PeriodicalId":47718,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Geographies","volume":"29 1","pages":"330 - 331"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65738320","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Spaces of exposure: Re-thinking ‘publicness’ through public transport","authors":"L. Kemmer, Wladimir Sgibnev, Tonio Weicker, Maxwell Woods","doi":"10.1177/14744740211068097","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14744740211068097","url":null,"abstract":"Developing thoughts on exposure in cultural geography, literary studies, and mobilities research, this article aims to provide a more comprehensive account towards the publicness of public space. What would happen if we assessed publicness not by degrees of openness and inclusion, but through the nexus of vulnerability and complicity that is fundamental to the notion of exposure? To grasp such an intrinsic dualism, our perspective goes towards public transport, where experiences of exposure are intensified by its specific conditions of encapsulation and movement. We illustrate this perspective drawing from the autobiographical chronicles of the Chilean writer Pedro Lemebel, in order to then propose a ‘learning from’ the case of public transport for a rethinking of publicness. Specifically, we argue that exposure provides new insights on agency, power and vulnerability as part of a more processual notion of public space.","PeriodicalId":47718,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Geographies","volume":"29 1","pages":"285 - 299"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-01-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42220395","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Book review: English Wetlands: Spaces of Nature, Culture, Imagination","authors":"R. Giblett","doi":"10.1177/14744740211068103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14744740211068103","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47718,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Geographies","volume":"29 1","pages":"328 - 329"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2021-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48110420","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Eating to become ‘good’ citizens: exploring the visceral biopolitics of eating in Singapore","authors":"Siew Ying Shee","doi":"10.1177/14744740211065047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14744740211065047","url":null,"abstract":"This paper develops a more-than-representational approach to consumer agency in food biopolitics that is sensitive to people’s everyday eating experiences. In recent years, studies of food biopolitics have engaged with questions of agency by examining how socially constructed ideas of ‘good’ eating and citizenship are engaged on the ground. Yet, there remain opportunities to depart from the evaluative mind as a dominant site of ethical self-formation, and engage with the body as a site of political action and agency. In this paper, I argue that people’s sense of citizen selves has long been, and continue to be, organised across the interplay of material, discursive, and visceral spaces of eating. I develop this argument by drawing on a critical analysis of historical and contemporary news forums related to public eating in Singapore. For many consumers, their disdain for certain food—ranging from the erstwhile state-vaunted meal plans to leftover food on public dining tables—express an embodied agency in negotiating the technocratic designs of citizenship. In developing a visceral biopolitics of eating, this paper aims to expand understandings of consumers’ capacity in negotiating the ethical tensions between hegemonic imaginings of ‘good’ citizens and the everyday pleasures of eating. Approaching consumer agency this way orientates critical yet oft-overlooked attention to the body’s capacity to act, and possibly effect change, within the broader workings of dietary bio-power.","PeriodicalId":47718,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Geographies","volume":"30 1","pages":"35 - 49"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2021-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46047016","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Book review: A Place More Void","authors":"Jacob C. Miller, Kahina Meziant","doi":"10.1177/14744740211062095","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14744740211062095","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47718,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Geographies","volume":"29 1","pages":"160 - 161"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2021-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48435314","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Book Review: Comics as a Research Practice: Drawing Narrative Geographies Beyond the Frame","authors":"J. Fall","doi":"10.1177/14744740211062939","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14744740211062939","url":null,"abstract":"approaches, at times the thread of NRT risks getting lost in an in-depth discussion of, say, sonic geographies, or landscape studies. With this said, the permeability Simpson introduces here is admirable and progressive, moving NRT beyond a narrow pool of thinkers and ideas – but it may be a double-edged sword. This book is written in a conversational and accessible tone which makes it distinct from other key texts on NRT which tend to be poetic and descriptive in nature, which Simpson notes. This conversational tone makes for a satisfying read in which complex ideas are clearly explained. This makes the book ideal for students and those new to NRT. NRT are powerful and arguably political, in that they move beyond routinised or standardised ways of making sense of the world as life is lived – and this book makes this radical approach widely accessible. I would note though, Simpson pitches this book’s contribution with absolute humility. The conclusion, for instance, begins with a series of caveats about what the book does not do, what the reader might or might not have taken from their read, and this kind of speculation appears throughout. This is again a double-edged sword. It is admirable in that it works against overzealous contribution-claiming, but this humility also risks understating the vital contribution this book makes to social and cultural geography.","PeriodicalId":47718,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Geographies","volume":"29 1","pages":"326 - 327"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2021-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45079625","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}