Human-nonhuman
Human-nonhuman
Human-nonhuman is a challenge to the category of the human as it leads one to consider how as humans we are inextricably connected to nonhumans, from sentient animals to inert pieces of technology by both how we know ourselves and how we form ethical and political relationships with other humans and nonhumans. This concept has emerged in human geography as geographers have turned to a range of post-structural theorists who have written of ontological realities that respond to this challenge in various ways from the actor-network theorists to the vitalist philosophers and theorists. Consequently, geography has expanded its concerns to include these nonhumans in the remit of its studies to find new ways to think about the relationship between humans and the environment, and humans and technology, and by doing this is developing distinctly geographical approaches to post-structural theories. There is exciting development in how geographical concepts emerging from these theoretical developments are opening up the study of politically and ethically sensitive areas of biotechnology and the management of the world's resources (the nonhumans: animals, plants, minerals, and human body parts and the products made from them).
nonhuman geography, hybridity, assemblage, ontology
0080449115
251-257
Roe, E.J.
f7579e4e-3721-4046-a2d4-d6395f61c675
29 August 2009
Roe, E.J.
f7579e4e-3721-4046-a2d4-d6395f61c675
Roe, E.J.
(2009)
Human-nonhuman.
In,
Kitchin, Rob and Thrift, Nigel
(eds.)
International Encyclopedia of Human Geography.
Oxford, UK.
Elsevier, .
(doi:10.1016/B978-008044910-4.00702-1).
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Human-nonhuman is a challenge to the category of the human as it leads one to consider how as humans we are inextricably connected to nonhumans, from sentient animals to inert pieces of technology by both how we know ourselves and how we form ethical and political relationships with other humans and nonhumans. This concept has emerged in human geography as geographers have turned to a range of post-structural theorists who have written of ontological realities that respond to this challenge in various ways from the actor-network theorists to the vitalist philosophers and theorists. Consequently, geography has expanded its concerns to include these nonhumans in the remit of its studies to find new ways to think about the relationship between humans and the environment, and humans and technology, and by doing this is developing distinctly geographical approaches to post-structural theories. There is exciting development in how geographical concepts emerging from these theoretical developments are opening up the study of politically and ethically sensitive areas of biotechnology and the management of the world's resources (the nonhumans: animals, plants, minerals, and human body parts and the products made from them).
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e-pub ahead of print date: 8 July 2009
Published date: 29 August 2009
Keywords:
nonhuman geography, hybridity, assemblage, ontology
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ISBN: 0080449115
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