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Thinking with the grain
Dialogues in Human Geography ( IF 27.5 ) Pub Date : 2021-04-12 , DOI: 10.1177/20438206211004858
Gavin Bridge 1
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In this short commentary, I consider William Jamieson’s proposal ‘For Granular Geography’. I focus on two parallel arguments at work in his piece: the proposal for a political ecology of sand foregrounding the physical dynamics of sand as a granular system; and second, his programmatic agenda for human geography in which the instability and unpredictability of granular systems become a ‘conceptual grammar’ for the material geographies of value transformation. I am sympathetic to thinking through materials and alive to the poetic possibilities of sand, but ultimately find neither of Jamieson’s arguments persuasive. I suggest a fuller engagement with existing ‘grammars’ – including those of new materialism, elemental geographies, and the role of friction in global commodity chains – could help clarify the contribution that ‘granularity’ might be able to make.



中文翻译:

用谷物思考

在这篇简短的评论中,我考虑了威廉·贾米森(William Jamieson)的提案“针对粒度地理学”(For Granular Geography)。我在他的著作中着眼于两个平行的论点:关于沙子的政治生态学的建议,以沙子作为颗粒系统的物理动力学为基础;第二,他的人文地理规划纲领,其中粒状系统的不稳定性和不可预测性成为价值转换的物质地理学的“概念语法”。我很同情于思考材料,并活出沙子的诗意可能性,但最终却发现杰米森的论点都没有说服力。我建议与现有的“语法”(包括新的唯物主义,基本地理学,

更新日期:2021-04-12
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