The Agency of Place: Toward a More-Than-Human Geographical Self. Issue 1 (2nd January 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Larsen, Soren C.; Johnson, Jay T.
• Is Part Of: GeoHumanities. Volume 2:Issue 1(2016)
• Page Start: 149
• Page End: 166
• Publication Date: 2016-01-02
• Subjects: Anthropocene geohumanities -- Indigenous -- ontology -- place; 人类世的地理人文学科 -- 本土 -- 本体论 -- 地方; geohumanidades del Antropoceno -- indígena -- ontología -- lugar; Arts and geography -- Periodicals; Human geography -- Periodicals; 304.2
• DOI: 10.1080/2373566X.2016.1157003
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2373-566X

Abstract

Abstract : Contemporary Indigenous activism asserts an agency for place not normally found in geographical scholarship. Through place-based protest, organizing, and direct action, Native and non-Native people are interacting with place as a conscious being with the capacity to speak, create, and teach the responsibilities required for more inclusive forms of coexistence in today's settler states. This "placework" articulates a more-than-human geographical self whose subjectivities are grounded in, and accountable to, land-based relationships and knowledges. Placework contributes to a geographical posthumanism that offers a distinctively Indigenous approach to the predicaments of the Anthropocene.