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PROGRESS IN HUMAN GEOGRAPHY
卷 30, 期 1, 页码 5-27出版社
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1191/0309132506ph588oa
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agency; embodiment; environment; hybrid; materiality; nature; resource geography; resources; textuality
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Concepts of 'materiality' are increasingly invoked in human geography. This paper discusses several recent and influential workings of materiality, and examines their implications for resource geographies. First, we identify a set of analytical questions at the heart of resource geography and characterize the dominant approaches to these questions - the 'production of nature' and the 'social construction of nature' - as yielding diminishing returns. Second, we survey recent work on materiality relating to commodities, corporeality and hybridity and advance the claim that this work provides a number of fresh perspectives with which to revive resource geography. Third, we highlight three specific themes within this research: a radical redistribution and decentering of agency; a revitalization of the concept of 'construction'; and an acknowledgement of the political-economic implications that flow from a world that is biophysically heterogeneous. Finally, we draw on this analysis to explore how progress might be made in the conceptualization and empirical study of resources.
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