5: Materiality

Question 1

What is the re-materialisation of geography?

Answer 1

Parallel to cultural turn - with it’s focus on everything not material
Shift from what matter is to what matter does = empirics and experimentation
Materiality does not equal physicality
It is hybrid (socio-material), multiple, relational, situated etc.

Question 2

Vitalist materialisms (incl. [?;?])

Answer 2

Bennett 2010: strivings and tendencies are inherent to materials as part of agentic assemblages
Affect
Limitations = distinction between agency of things and of the assemblage is confusing

Question 3

Materialist geography in and for a more-than-human world [?;?]

Answer 3

Whatmore 2006
more than human –> co-fabrication of socio-material worlds
life-science era - ‘life’ itself is a natural resource; controversies such as GM and reproductive cloning
Onus is on experimentation and risk taking
- beyond humanist methods to sensory, bodily and affective registers
- extends what a research subject is
- redistributes expertise