Conceptual multiplicity or ontological politics?. (March 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Greenhough, Beth
• Is Part Of: Dialogues in human geography. Volume 6:Number 1(2016:Mar.)
• Page Start: 37
• Page End: 40
• Publication Date: 2016-03
• Subjects: ethnography -- materiality -- multiplicity -- non-human agency -- ontological politics -- resilience; Human geography -- Periodicals; Human ecology -- Periodicals; Environmental ethics -- Periodicals; 304.205
• DOI: 10.1177/2043820615624069
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2043-8206

Abstract

Simon and Randalls' piece does an excellent job of highlighting how resilience is divergently articulated across multiple sites, however the article is characterized by an oscillation between an examination of contrasting discourses of resilience (reflected in the ways it is defined and conceptualized) and an attention to specific empirical incidents of its enactment (offering a basis for ontological politics). I argue this limits the analysis in terms of failures to engage with: (i) the materiality of literary representation; (ii) the specificity of tactics for imagining (as opposed to intervening in) ontological futures; and (iii) the more-than-human contingencies of resilience interventions.