Revolutionary possibilities of love in a time of disaster, decolonisation, and diffraction

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dc.contributor.authorMouat CM
dc.date.accessioned2023-08-02T01:31:39Z
dc.date.accessioned2023-09-04T01:40:57Z
dc.date.available2023-08-02T01:31:39Z
dc.date.available2023-09-04T01:40:57Z
dc.date.issued2023-08-01
dc.date.updated2023-08-01T08:20:45Z
dc.description(c) The Author
dc.description.abstractRepresentations of love appear across many disciplines and discursive fields that are and should be in conversation with geography. It is imperative that geographers engage in formidable but worthy tasks to distil diverse renderings of love into the regenerative interventions we urgently need. Those interventions require geographically minded interpretations of love to drive radical research, pedagogies, policies, and practices in ways that have direct and indirect effects across the life course and life worlds. Such labours are mediated by state and law, by intersectional relations, or by neuroscience, and involve asking how love underwrites critical infrastructures—of place (making), care and entanglements, colonialism, and human-nature relations in the Anthropocene and posthuman—that lead to the flourishing futures we seek. Rich geographical studies oriented to those tasks still face charges of flattening difference. This commentary picks up one aspect of this agenda: a blind spot in geographical research relating to the ethical imperative to love based on benevolence. Instead, I champion the revolutionary possibilities for geography to inform policies, pedagogies, and practices by using a love based on alterity aligned with social weight, reasserting accessible science as an effective driver of social and system transformative changes. Specifically, I argue for a regenerative socio-political analytic of love in a time of disaster, decolonisation, and diffraction.
dc.identifier.citationMouat CM. (2023). Revolutionary possibilities of love in a time of disaster, decolonisation, and diffraction. Geographical Research.
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/1745-5871.12614
dc.identifier.eissn1745-5871
dc.identifier.elements-typejournal-article
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dc.identifier.issn1745-5863
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10179/19901
dc.relation.isPartOfGeographical Research
dc.rightsCC BY-NC-ND 4.0
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.titleRevolutionary possibilities of love in a time of disaster, decolonisation, and diffraction
dc.typeJournal article
pubs.elements-id479217
pubs.organisational-groupCollege of Humanities and Social Sciences
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