Social geography should not be limited to the study of the humans

Question 1

What is a possible argument?

Answer 1

Social and cultural geography needs to find a path where it remains broadly anthropocentric whilst acknowledging more acutely and inclusively the role of non-human life and the material environment

Question 2

What is the structure?

Answer 2

Need to look at a general understanding of social geography, before moving to a discussion of the material, the animal geography and the plant geography

Question 3

What does Pain et al say about social geography?

Answer 3

IT is interested in the ways in which social relations, identities and inequalities are produced, their spatial variation and the role of space in constructing them.

Question 4

What does Smith 1992 say about social geography?

Answer 4

The production of difference and its expiericnes

Question 5

In both Pain et al and Smith 1992, what is there>

Answer 5

There is a structuring force of the non human in human relations, and human relations as structuring them.

Question 6

Who says that there is a need to take the material seriously within social and cultural geography?

Answer 6

Jackson 2000

Question 7

Who says that the material is the latest turn in social goegprahy?

Answer 7

Whatmore 2006

Question 8

What is an example that can be drawn on from anthropology for the material section?

Answer 8

Balthazar 2017

Question 9

What is it important to do for the material

Answer 9

look at different scales, from the built environment, to the scale of the everyday like Balthazar 2017

Question 10

What needs to be analysed with animal geographies?

Answer 10

People’s interaction with, and classification of, them.

Question 11

How to link oreitnalism to animal geographies?

Answer 11

In classifying animals, people are perhaps more revealing about themselves than they are about the differences in animals.

Question 12

What is the approach for animals

Answer 12

Acknowledging that they have a value in and of themselves, whilst maintaining a human-centred approach.

Question 13

Who are the two people who think that animals have a research value for social geographers in and of themselves?

Answer 13

Wolch and Emmel, 1995; Buller 2014

Question 14

What can be said about anthropology and material culture

Answer 14

Anthropology has already proved the value of anthropocentric enagegement with material culture.

Question 15

Who is the key reference for plant geographies?

Answer 15

Head and Atchison 2009

Question 16

What does Head and Atchison say that it is easy to do with plants?

Answer 16

Take them for granted

Question 17

What else does Head and Atchison say that is valuable?

Answer 17

That we need to see plants in and of themselves, rather than as forests.

Question 18

What is the problematic bit of Head and Atchison 2009?

Answer 18

That they say that we need to see plants as more than food, but this does not really fit with the anthropocentric argument

Question 19

Who says if animals, why not platens?

Answer 19

Hitchins and Jones 2004

Question 20

Ultimately what needs to be done (conclusion)

Answer 20

The knowledge about the non-human needs to be pluralised, whilst attention is maintained on the human

Question 21

How does Climate change link?

Answer 21

As climate change becomes more significant, it is reasonable to assume that social
relations can become more obviously structured by the non-human.