Coming down to … place: the potential of ‘place’ as a guiding concept for (post)Anthropocene research

Abstract

The problem with the Moderns, Latour wrote, is that they do not know where they stand. To survive the Moderns, the new humanity of the post-Anthropocene, which he named the Terrestrials, needs to develop an understanding of and new relations with the territory which they inhabit and which makes their lives possible. Starting from this provocation, and drawing on her ongoing work on human-soil relation in the context of regeneration, Dr Anna Krzywoszynska proposes place as a guiding concept for finding our feet. Her thought-in-progress talk invites discussion on strategies for developing locally actionable knowledge for place-based sustainability by: centering the challenge of inhabitation/habitability; understanding the historical as well as ecological/environmental conditions shaping habitability; and embedding social and ecological (multispecies) justice. 

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