Remembered Belonging:Encounters with the spectral more-than amidst landscapes of decline
Recent literature in cultural geography, and elsewhere, has productively applied a spectral lens to the subject of extinction, revealing its hauntological aspects. In this article I expand on this, exploring the spectral effects of the diminishments that precede extinction. This is articulated via a...
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ftubristolcris:oai:research-information.bris.ac.uk:publications/4d8667b7-fbde-4812-a99f-b7a6bf609825 2024-04-14T08:07:46+00:00 Remembered Belonging:Encounters with the spectral more-than amidst landscapes of decline Newman, Milo 2024-01-09 https://hdl.handle.net/1983/4d8667b7-fbde-4812-a99f-b7a6bf609825 https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/publications/4d8667b7-fbde-4812-a99f-b7a6bf609825 https://doi.org/10.1177/14744740231223183 eng eng https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/publications/4d8667b7-fbde-4812-a99f-b7a6bf609825 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Newman , M 2024 , ' Remembered Belonging : Encounters with the spectral more-than amidst landscapes of decline ' , cultural geographies . https://doi.org/10.1177/14744740231223183 article 2024 ftubristolcris https://doi.org/10.1177/14744740231223183 2024-03-27T15:25:44Z Recent literature in cultural geography, and elsewhere, has productively applied a spectral lens to the subject of extinction, revealing its hauntological aspects. In this article I expand on this, exploring the spectral effects of the diminishments that precede extinction. This is articulated via an extinction story detailing the steep decline in numbers of arctic terns (pickies) returning to the island of Papa Westray in Orkney, Scotland, to breed. Drawing on memories of their past abundance, this narrative discloses how the spectre of these birds’ waning numbers haunts the island’s places and more-than-human inhabitants. Through the specifics of this example I develop a conceptualisation of the spectral more-than that lies at the heart of such decline, revealing how the ghosts invoked by extinction and biotic diminishment multiply across the relational complexity of local ecology. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic University of Bristol: Bristol Research Arctic The Spectre ENVELOPE(-150.167,-150.167,-86.050,-86.050) cultural geographies |
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Recent literature in cultural geography, and elsewhere, has productively applied a spectral lens to the subject of extinction, revealing its hauntological aspects. In this article I expand on this, exploring the spectral effects of the diminishments that precede extinction. This is articulated via an extinction story detailing the steep decline in numbers of arctic terns (pickies) returning to the island of Papa Westray in Orkney, Scotland, to breed. Drawing on memories of their past abundance, this narrative discloses how the spectre of these birds’ waning numbers haunts the island’s places and more-than-human inhabitants. Through the specifics of this example I develop a conceptualisation of the spectral more-than that lies at the heart of such decline, revealing how the ghosts invoked by extinction and biotic diminishment multiply across the relational complexity of local ecology. |
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