Towards geographies of co-dwelling: weaving more-than-human places
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2179-0892.geousp.2024.217863Keywords:
Earth, Dwelling, More-than-human Worlds, HomeAbstract
Geographical space comes from the existential affordances of multiple terrestrial relations and the forms through which they are correlated to the dwelling of human and non-human entities. Thus, the present essay aims to problematize the analytical of more-than-human co-dwelling in places. To do so, it follows a dialogical contact between Cultural and Humanist Geographies and ecophenomenological philosophy. This intersection shows the ways by which places are co-dwelled by flows of multiple forms of terrestrial sentience. The more-than-human worlds that weave geographical reality reveal that the experience of being-in-and-of-the-Earth is based upon co-dwelling dynamics that intertwine intersubjectivities and intercorporealities. It is concluded that co-dwelling in places involves the emergence of conviviality amongst telluric cycles and rhythms of reversibility.
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