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Encountering Berlant part 1: Concepts otherwise
The Geographical journal, Vol.189(1), pp.117-142
25/12/2022
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Abstract
In Part 1 of ‘Encountering Berlant’, we encounter the promise and provocation of Lauren Berlant's work. In 1000-word contributions, geographers and others stay with what Berlant's thought offers contemporary human geography. They amplify an encounter with their work, demonstrating how a concept, idea, or style disrupts something, opens up a new possibility, or simply invites thinking otherwise. The encounters range across the incredible body of work Berlant left us with, from the ‘national sentimentality’ trilogy through to recent work on negativity. Varying in form and tone, the encounters exemplify and enact the inexhaustible plenitude of Berlant's thought: fantasy, the case, love, impasse, feel tanks, slow death, ellipses, gesture, attrition, intimate public, ambivalence, style. Part 2 of ‘Encountering Berlant’ focuses on Berlant's most influential concept: ‘cruel optimism’. Across these heterogeneous encounters, Berlant's enduring concern with the tensions and possibilities of relationality and how to enact better forms of common life shine through. These enduring concerns and Berlant's commitment to the incoherence and overdetermination of phenomena are summarised in the Introduction, which also explores how Berlant's work has been engaged with in geography. The result is a repository of what an encounter with Berlant's thought makes possible.
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- Title
- Encountering Berlant part 1: Concepts otherwise
- Creators
- Ben Anderson - Durham UniversityStuart Aitken - San Diego State UniversityJana Bacevic - Department of Sociology University of Durham Durham UKFelicity Callard - University of GlasgowKwang Dae (Mitsy) Chung - Faculty of Education University of Western Ontario London Ontario CanadaKathryn S. Coleman - University of MelbourneRobert F. Hayden - California Maritime AcademySarah Healy - Melbourne Graduate School of Education The University of Melbourne Melbourne Victoria AustraliaRita L. Irwin - University of British ColumbiaThomas Jellis - University of BristolJoe Jukes - University of BrightonSalman Khan - Durham UniversitySteve Marotta - Portland State UniversityDavid K. Seitz - Harvey Mudd CollegeKim Snepvangers - Faculty of Education Southern Cross University Lismore New South Wales AustraliaAdam Staples - School of Education La Trobe University Melbourne Victoria AustraliaChloe Turner - Goldsmiths University of LondonJustin Tse - Singapore Management UniversityMarthy Watson - School of Education The University of Southern Queensland Toowoomba Queensland AustraliaEleanor Wilkinson - School of Geography and Environmental Science University of Southampton Southampton UK
- Publication Details
- The Geographical journal, Vol.189(1), pp.117-142
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
- Identifiers
- 991013076213502368
- Copyright
- © 2022 The Authors. The Geographical Journal published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers). This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Education
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article