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Landscape as a Provocation

Reflections on Moving Mountains

Doreen Massey

Open University, UK

This article opens with a story of the mobility and varied temporalities of a particular landscape and uses this to reflect on a range of issues that revolve around the different kinds of ‘grounding’ that are appealed to in sociocultural, political and academic life. It reflects upon the relations between human and natural sciences, the nature of appeals between them, and the important, but often questionable, place within this of particular political positions. It goes on to query the role of ‘Nature’ as a grounding to place and landscape and stresses the potentially differential effectivities of contrasting temporalities – between, for example, the temporalities of the taskspace and the temporalities of tectonics. Nonetheless, the argument continues, there are indeed provocations from the moving rocks to the nature of scientific discourse and to debates within political philosophy. It concludes with a conceptualization of both landscape and place as events.

Key Words: anti-foundationalism • ‘dwelling’ • human/natural science relations • landscape • localism • nature • places • space • temporalities • ‘the political’

Journal of Material Culture, Vol. 11, No. 1-2, 33-48 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/1359183506062991
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