One or several granular geographies?

Abstract

This response addresses the issues and potentialities raised by the commentaries on my article, ‘For Granular Geography’. It clarifies some of the tensions within my original presentation of granular geography, and then outlines two diverging trajectories for granular geographies to come. The first outlines a geophilosophical and geomorphological trajectory of granular assemblages that map how sand binds elemental and non-human relations to interrogate the emerging global sand crisis. The second trajectory consists of developing granular relations for the ecological critique of political economy as a set of tools for theorising unstable relations between capital and nature, complementing existing metaphors of metabolism.

Weathering Saharan dust beyond the Spanish Mediterranean Basin: An interdisciplinary dialogue

“…In this spirit, perhaps one learns to evade land-based logics by drifting with – rather than intercepting or capturing – atmospheric dust (Choy and Zee, 2015). Perhaps the granular as other might be subverted through a speculative address of becoming granular (Jamieson, 2021b) or becoming atmospheric (Stewart, 2011).…”