Countertopographies and the futures of geographical thought

Anthias, Penelope

Abstract

In this commentary, I extend Derickson's (2020) conception of the ‘annihilation of time by space’ to reflect on an experience of making a documentary about women-led resistance to hydrocarbon development in Southern Bolivia, where the forging of new spatial knowledges, practices, and relations – or countertopographies of extraction – played a critical role in disrupting fossil futures. I consider what geographers might learn from these women's example about the potentialities of space and materiality for unsettling liberal futurities and suggest how a focus on countertopographies might reorient the futures of geographical thought and praxis.

Citation

Anthias, P. (2023). Countertopographies and the futures of geographical thought. Dialogues in Human Geography, https://doi.org/10.1177/20438206231171202

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Apr 5, 2023
• Online Publication Date: May 7, 2023
• Publication Date: 2023
• Deposit Date: May 10, 2023
• Publicly Available Date: May 10, 2023
• Journal: Dialogues in Human Geography
• Print ISSN: 2043-8206
• Electronic ISSN: 2043-8214
• Publisher: SAGE Publications
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/20438206231171202
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1174390