Traces: Philosophy, Interpretation, and Method in Postqualitative Human Geography

Postqualitative geographies

“…This essay has reviewed literature on postqualitative inquiry from the field of education to bring it to the attention of human geographers, particularly those who are inspired by posthumanism and postphenomenology. This literature, while not being prescriptive, does gesture towards a possible postqualitative geography (see Allums, 2020). By re‐thinking the interview and the research event, postqualitative inquiry also presents options to qualitative geographers who are looking to extend or re‐envision their current approaches to research.…”

Summit atmospheres: Aviation diplomacy and virtual infrastructures of politics

“…Such latencies are complicated by the elusiveness of atmospheres themselves, which are not easily reducible to words or texts, and whose naming and translation often prove “contradictory and futile” (Legg, 2020, p. 776). Accordingly, there is a need to recognise the limits of writing about atmospheres in this context, which, at best, only imperfectly traces the kinds of eruptions that are in play (Allums, 2020).…”

“…Coupling this insider knowledge with observations of and informal encounters with event staffers, a first‐hand account of the fleeting moods and feels of the two assemblies was able to organically emerge out of these transects (Adey et al, 2013). Besides the immersive accounts, the research further referred to verbal exchanges on the assembly floor, public video playbacks of plenary sessions, and happenings in Montréal to corroborate its traces (Allums, 2020). Through such triangulation, the following is able to reconstruct a sense of how atmospheres multivalently seeped into (geo)political decision‐making at A38 and A40, across various times and spaces.…”