Heidegger, event and the ontological politics of the site

Joronen, Mikko

doi:10.1111/j.1475-5661.2012.00550.x

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“…As Blaser (2013) articulates, environmental conflicts -the heart of political ecology -are 'politicoconceptual problems', as much as they are struggles over land and 'natural resources' as property, and over discourses regarding how these properties should best be managed for economic and ecological ends. Importantly, a sensitivity to the ontological politics through which spaces and entities are defined and known, and which thereby shape environmental conflicts, may be key to recognising and understanding with more depth the significantly different 'natures' being struggled over in such conflicts (Blaser 2013;Escobar 2008;Joronen 2013;Martin et al 2013).…”

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What's ontology got to do with it? On nature and knowledge in a political ecology of the 'green economy'

Sullivan

2017

Journal of Political Ecology

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Contemporary market-based (i.e. neoliberal) 'green economy' approaches to environmental degradation emphasise exchanges whereby quantified units of environmental harm are traded or 'offset' for compensating units of environmental health. Also encouraged is a view that economic growth can be 'greened' through 'decoupling' economic value from material ecological realities. Such approaches tend to frame biophysical natures in terms of aggregates, such as an 'aggregate natural capital rule' and 'net zero carbon.' Naturesbeyond-the-human are thereby understood and enacted as calculable, exchangeable, substitutable and commensurable between different spatial and temporal sites, making up an 'aggregate' or 'net' value overall. This article uses a comparative cross-cultural engagement to problematize ontological assumptions regarding the nature of nature underscoring the rationality of these aggregating and offsetting 'solutions.' Drawing on literatures from environmental anthropology and environmental ethics, combined with ethnographic material from long-term field research in north-west Namibia, the article considers elements of alternative cultural ontologies and the ways these may give rise to a different array of practices with value for conceiving and generating 'sustainability.' It adheres to a critical political ecology perspective in understanding the ways that power structures the ontologies that become both privileged and occluded in neoliberal strategies for green economy governance. In doing so, the article argues that sensitivity to the ontological politics through which spaces and entities are defined and known and which thereby shape environmental conflicts, may be key to recognising with more depth the sometimes significantly different 'natures' being struggled over in such conflicts. Key words: ontology; green economy; offsetting; decoupling; sustainability; value; natures-beyond-thehuman; neoliberalism; political ecology Résumé Les approches de la dégradation de l'environnement fondées sur le marché et l'économie verte mettent l'accent sur les échanges, dans le cadre desquels des unités quantifiées de dommages à l'environnement sont échangées ou «compensées» pour compenser des unités de santé environnementale. On encourage également l'idée que la croissance économique peut être «vernie» par le biais du «découplage» de la valeur économique des réalités écologiques matérielles. De telles approches tendent à encadrer les natures biophysiques en termes d'agrégats, tels qu'une «règle du capital naturel agrégé» et un «carbone zéro net». Les natures-au-delà de l'humain sont ainsi comprises et promulguées comme calculables, échangeables, substituables et commensurables entre différents sites spatiaux et temporels, constituant une valeur «agrégée» ou «nette». Cet article utilise un engagement interculturel comparatif pour problématiser les hypothèses ontologiques concernant la nature de la nature, soulignant la rationalité de ces «solutions» d'agrégation et de compensation.

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2017

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“…Gregory, too, understands Euclidean space as space that can be "splintered," severed and twisted "into ever more violent constellations" (2006: 123-4). This is much like Joronen's (2012) analysis of different spatial ontologies, i.e. how different modes of being-in-the-world shape the ways in which being is revealed.…”

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Towards a post-mathematical topology

Martin

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2013

Progress in Human Geography

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The full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. Pre-proof version.Abstract: This paper aims to bring clarity to the term topology as it has been deployed in human geography. We summarize the insights that geographers have garnered from thinking topologically about space and power. We find that many deployments of topology both overstretch topology's conceptual merit and limit its insights for spatial thinking. We show how topology, with its structuralist and modernist baggage, requires some theoretical reworking to be put to work by poststructuralist geographers. Our purpose is not to consolidate a specific topological approach for geographers, but to call for an ongoing consideration of what topology offers poststructuralist spatial theories.

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“…The framework: non-representational theory and participatory youth research My approach to the use of photography and photographs relates to multisensory and embodied ways of experiencing and thinking about the world and is inspired by writings in 'material feminisms' (Alaimo and Hekman 2008;Colls 2011;Grosz 2005;Haraway 2002) and 'post-human' theorization (Anderson and Wylie 2009;Ingold 2011;Joronen 2012;Kirsch 2012;Rautio 2013;Whatmore 2006). Albeit plural, this literature shares a relational conception of nature, things, people and spatialities.…”

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‘Sensing with’ photography and ‘thinking with’ photographs in research into teenage girls' hanging out

Pyyry

2013

Children's Geographies

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In this paper, I approach photography as a multisensory practice that can deepen participant engagement in youth research. I argue that this engagement opens up possibilities for embodied reflection. I focus on the creative potential of both 'sensing with' photography and the event of 'thinking with' photographs by discussing two inter-connected methods: photo-walks and photo-talks. The insights are based on my research into the ways in which teenage girls live and hang out with their urban environments. My thinking draws on writings within material or 'post-human' geographies, non-representational theory and participatory research.

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Heidegger, event and the ontological politics of the site

Cited by 26 publications

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What's ontology got to do with it? On nature and knowledge in a political ecology of the 'green economy'

What's ontology got to do with it? On nature and knowledge in a political ecology of the 'green economy'

Towards a post-mathematical topology

‘Sensing with’ photography and ‘thinking with’ photographs in research into teenage girls' hanging out

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