This brief commentary draws on Stuart Elden’s thought provoking article, ‘Terrain, Politics, History’, to make two interventions. The first argues that understandings of terrain and Earth’s materiality would be enriched by engaging with ‘pluriversal’ perspectives where Earth is inherently animated, lively, and heterogenous. This includes indigenous perspectives and those attending to non-human animal life. The second calls for a more concerted engagement within geography with terrains as voluminous constructs, whether that be in mountains, the air, or increasingly in artificial environments. It concludes by advocating for a further stretching of ‘terrain’ as presented in the paper to see where diverse understandings of terrain might land or indeed, climb, float, sink, or soar.

这篇简短的评论借鉴了斯图尔特·埃尔登（Stuart Elden）的思想发人深省的文章“地形，政治，历史”，进行了两种干预。第一个观点认为，通过结合“多面性”的观点来丰富对地形和地球重要性的理解，在这些观点中，地球固有地具有生命力，活力和异质性。这包括土著观点和涉及非人类动物生命的观点。第二个要求在地理上更加协调一致地参与，以地形作为庞大的构造，无论是在高山，空中还是越来越多的人工环境中。最后，本文主张提倡进一步扩展“地形”，以了解对地形的各种理解可能在何处着陆，甚至在何处攀爬，漂浮，下沉或飙升。