Subjectivity and the more-than-human world
Geography has developed into a lively plurality of discourses that speak to a wide variety of social and environmental contexts. Geographers researches diverse topics from regional development to climate changes and pressing social problems. Recent development in geography shows a concern for materiality and hybridity (see Whatmore 2006, Massey 2005). This does not only concern possibilities for integrating physical and human geography but a particular interest in the particular and complex life processes that is found in nature, places, and bodies, in the livingness of the world, the “earthlife nexus” (Whatmore 2006). As Sarah Whatmore argues (2006:601): “The vital connections between the geo (earth) and the bio (life)” are “amongst the most enduring of geographical concerns”. She explains some ways to approach the more-than-human world in geography: 1) the re-animation of matter, 2) the joint co-fabrication of the world by both human and more-than-human “socio-materia...