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Book SynopsisThis collection presents geography’s most in-depth and sustained engagements with the void to date, demonstrating the extent to which related themes such as gaps, cracks, lacks, and emptiness perforate geography’s fundamental concepts, practices, and passions.
Trade Review“In the current period of climatic and political uncertainty
A Place More Void explores the generative capacities of the unknown through the lens of different conceptualizations of the void. I came away from the reading invigorated by the productive mobilizations of the concept and fully convinced of its potential to assist in understanding and moving forward in the current conjuncture.”—Susan M. Ruddick, professor of geography at the University of Toronto
“As a spatial concept the void—or a space that reflects a gap in place or time—is a curious yet compelling question to investigate in geographical research.
A Place More Void is conceptually unique and definitely provides a step forward as a contribution in the discipline of geography.”—Nadia Bartolini, associate research fellow of geography at the University of Exeter
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Into the Void
Paul Kingsbury and Anna J. Secor
Part 1. Holes
1. Urban Renewal and the Actuality of Absence: The “Hole” (Trou) of Paris, 1973
Ulf Strohmayer
2. The Crack in the Earth: Environmentalism after Speleology
Kai Bosworth
3. The Vortex and the Void: Meta/Geophysics in Sedona
Keith Woodward and John Paul Jones III
4. Six Voids
Flora Parrott and Harriet Hawkins
Part 2. Absences
5. Tracking Silence: Place, Embodiment, and Politics
Morgan Meyer
6. The Void and Its Summons: Subjectivity, Signs, and the Enigmatic
Mitch Rose
7. Derwent’s Ghost: The Haunting Silences of Geography at Harvard
Alison Mountz and Kira Williams
8. It Watches You Vanish: On Landscape and W. G. Sebald
John Wylie
Part 3. Edges
9. enfolding: An Experimental geographical imagination system (gis)
Nick Lally and Luke Bergmann
10. Beyond the Feminine Void: Rethinking Sexuation through an Ettingerial Lens
Carmen Antreasian
11. Politics for the Impasse
Jess Linz and Anna J. Secor
12. Raising Sasquatch to the Place of the Cryptozoological Thing
Oliver Keane and Paul Kingsbury
Part 4. Voids
13. O(void): Excerpts from “Lot,” a Long Ethnopoetics Project about the Colonial Geographies of Haida Gwaii
Sarah de Leeuw
14. Playing with Plenitude and Finitude: Attuning to a Mysterious Void of Being
Mikko Joronen
15. In the Void of Formalization: The Homology between Surplus Value and Surplus Jouissance
Ceren Özselçuk and Yahya M. Madra
16. Localizing the Void: From Material to Immaterial Materialism
Lucas Pohl
Coda: A Void More Placed
Paul Kingsbury and Anna J. Secor
Contributors
Index
