Entangled phenomenologies: Reassessing (post-)phenomenology’s promise for human geography

Hepach, Maximilian Gregor

Abstract

This article calls into question recent attempts to move beyond, to ‘post’ phenomenology by highlighting the continued relevance of key phenomenological concepts (intentionality and correlationism) for human geography. I show how these concepts are pivotal to addressing problems raised by post-phenomenologists themselves concerning affects and objects. Drawing on recent phenomenological theory, I develop a spatial account of how subject and object cohere in experience. I argue that the very relation between/entanglement of the human and more-than-/non-human can best be accounted for phenomenologically. Such a phenomenological approach promises new ways of understanding various phenomena such as landscape, weather or climate.

Citation

Hepach, M. G. (2021). Entangled phenomenologies: Reassessing (post-)phenomenology’s promise for human geography. Progress in Human Geography, 45(5), 1278-1294. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132520987308

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Dec 18, 2020
• Online Publication Date: Jan 27, 2021
• Publication Date: 2021-10
• Deposit Date: Dec 10, 2024
• Journal: Progress in Human Geography
• Print ISSN: 0309-1325
• Electronic ISSN: 1477-0288
• Publisher: SAGE Publications
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 45
• Issue: 5
• Pages: 1278-1294
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132520987308
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/3212897
• Other Repo URL: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/items/b8d24f43-8ef8-4fd6-81c3-0f56fd2e82d7