Re-imagining the futures of geographical thought and praxis
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Journal Article
Abstract
The question of geography's future has recurred throughout the history of geographical thought, and responses to it often presume a linear trajectory from the past and present to a possible future. Yet one of the major contributions that geographers have made to understanding spatio-temporality is reconceiving both space and time as plural, fluid, and co-constituted through multiple space–time trajectories simultaneously. Amidst the ongoing crises of the present, this article opens the current special issue with a call to pluralize geography's futures by diversifying the voices speaking in the name of ‘geography’ and broadening the horizon of possibilities for the futures of geographical thought and praxis. We have assembled the contributions in this collection with the aim of raising important theoretical, methodological, and empirical questions about how geography's past and present shape the conditions of possibility for its potential futures. In doing so, we seek to demonstrate how the worlding of geography's futures is fundamentally a matter of transforming its disciplinary reproduction in the here-and-now.
Date Issued
2024-07-01
Date Acceptance
2024-07-01
Citation
Dialogues in Human Geography, 2024, 14 (2), pp.177-191
ISSN
2043-8214
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Start Page
177
End Page
191
Journal / Book Title
Dialogues in Human Geography
Volume
14
Issue
2
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10.1177/20438206241264631
Subjects
AREA
Futures
geographical thought
Geography
imagination
plurality
POLITICS
praxis
Social Sciences
space-time
TIME
worlding
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2024-07-21