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Singularity. A manifesto for incomparable geographies
- Source :
- Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography. 40:5-21
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- Wiley, 2018.
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Abstract
- This paper is a methodological response to the challenge of decolonizing geographical knowledge. It mobilizes post‐ and de‐colonial critiques of geographical knowledge production and conceptual work, suggesting how such work unwittingly disfigures the precise contours of the places and socio‐spatial formations on which geographers work, drawing them into implicit and reductive forms of comparison. Drawing on research and sources from South Asia, the paper moves instead toward more uncertain engagements with, and dispositions to, the production of geographical knowledge; ones attuned to the poetics of planetary difference. The paper speculates on five intellectual and methodological resources, or tactics, aimed toward producing geographical scholarship attuned to the tableaux of heterogeneous and incomparable singularities at large across the world: theory and reading; friction and fragments; translation/untranslatability; abiding by; and poetics.
- Subjects :
- Manifesto
South asia
Untranslatability
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05 social sciences
Geography, Planning and Development
0211 other engineering and technologies
0507 social and economic geography
021107 urban & regional planning
02 engineering and technology
Knowledge production
Epistemology
Scholarship
Singularity
Poetics
Reading (process)
Sociology
050703 geography
Earth-Surface Processes
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Details
- ISSN :
- 01297619
- Volume :
- 40
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........1fcd8cadba3e4131f30f728c60b51663