Progress in Human Geography· 2016Q1
On geography and encounter
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Short summary
This paper argues that 'encounter' is a conceptually charged construct in geography, offering the first examination of its deployment across diverse subfields and demonstrating its distinctiveness as a genre of contact.
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Key points
- The concept of 'encounter' is under-theorized despite its widespread use in geographical studies of diversity.
- This paper offers the first discipline-wide examination of how 'encounter' has been deployed across various geographical subfields.
- Encounters are presented as distinct genres of contact, with implications for geographical thought.
- The analysis connects 'encounter' to geographical concepts of bodies, borders, and difference.
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Abstract
The notion of encounter has been used widely within work on urban diversity and socio-cultural difference, yet it remains under-theorized. This paper argues that ‘encounter’ is a conceptually charged construct that is worthy of sustained and critical attention. Drawing on a wide range of geographical interests, including animal geographies, urban diversity, postcolonialism, mobile geographies, and the more-than-human, it offers the first examination of how ‘encounter’ has been deployed across the discipline. By further tracing the historical links between geography and encounter, the paper contends that encounters are distinct genres of contact, and demonstrates why this matters for geographical thought, and how we think about bodies, borders, and difference.
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Field: Geography, Planning and Development
Geography, Planning and DevelopmentSocial Sciences