Walking with rocks – with care

• Main Authors: Rantala, Outi, Valtonen, Anu, Salmela, Tarja
• Other Authors: Farah, Paolo D.
• Format: Book Part
• Language: English
• Published: Edward Elgar 2020
• Subjects: geosocial approach; new materialism; walking methodologies; care; More-than-human; /dk/atira/pure/person/fieldofscience2010/5/19; name=Social and economic geography; Arctic
• Online Access: https://research.ulapland.fi/fi/publications/003f1f05-65a8-47f0-ae55-36ca45a028f7; https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/ulapland-ebooks/reader.action?docID=6379638&ppg=1

By way of combining insights from the emerging geosocial literature and feminist new materialism, the chapter develops a situated, ‘down-to-earth’ embodied perspective to investigate the lively relationalities of rocks and humans, and the way care is implicated in them. The analysis demonstrates that care is manifested in these relationalities in complex ways, taking the form of both detachment and entanglement, which do not exclude one another but instead contest an assumption of a harmonic relation between human and more-than-human subjects. Hence, the study provides a different story than that which is usually told about the Arctic area, of which the region studied is a part.