Why stop at response?. Issue 2 (July 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Head, Lesley
• Is Part Of: Dialogues in human geography. Volume 7:Issue 2(2017)
• Page Start: 203
• Page End: 206
• Publication Date: 2017-07
• Subjects: assemblage theory -- climate change -- ontology; Human geography -- Periodicals; Human ecology -- Periodicals; Environmental ethics -- Periodicals; 304.205
• DOI: 10.1177/2043820617720094
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2043-8206

Abstract

The broad question around which I frame my dialogue with Briassoulis's paper is, why stop at response? I consider this question with three connected subquestions. Why is it only the response part of the subject matter that needs assemblage thinking? Can other conceptualizations – environmental degradation, socioecological systems – remain intact within an assemblage approach? And does the concept of response itself imply a linear kind of causality arguably incompatible with assemblages?