Politicizing Ontology

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    Abstract

    This paper is a response to a growing body of geographical literature exploring the interface between ontology and politics. We develop an understanding that does not start by building ontological bedrocks, to which the question of politics is then rooted. Ontology building, we argue, operates against the essential possibility of the political invested in ontological openness, and thus remains blind to politics inconsistent with, but also practised upon, its own foundations. We propose a relation between the political and the ontological as questioning that grows from the events and situations, which ontologically position us in multiple and unexpected ways.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)561
    Number of pages579
    JournalPROGRESS IN HUMAN GEOGRAPHY
    Volume41
    Issue number5
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2016
    Publication typeA1 Journal article-refereed

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