Cultural Geographies of Love and Catastrophe (Geotheory)

Harrison, Paul (EDT)/ Secor, Anna J. (EDT)/ Joronen, Mikko (EDT)

Edinburgh University Press（2026/08発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 240 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781399545587

Full Description

Across thirteen chapters, this collection examines how love takes place. Ranging from the classical to the contemporary, the artistic to the political, the human to the ecological, the contributors consider how love makes, unmakes, and remakes selves, communities and worlds. Resisting the urge to purify love, alive to love's turbulence, they address the strange new attachments and alliances love makes possible and those it blights and prohibits. To love, to be loved, to speak of love, is a threat as much as it is a promise: the promise and threat of being undone by love. Love and catastrophe are not opposed but entwined.
At the heart of the collection is a surprising thesis: that love is always an experiment with distances, with intervals, with spacing. An education in love, an education by love, is a geography lesson.

Contents

Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Love's ruins
Anna Secor, Paul Harrison, Mikko Joronen

PART ONE: Love's distance
1. Juliet's analysis: On love amiss
Paul Harrison
2. After love: On love and finitude
Anna J. Secor
3. Enduring love: Three meditations on wounding
Raine Aiava, Noora Pyyry, Mikko Joronen,
4. I die you: Impersonal love and the annihilation of the subject
Thomas Dekeyser

PART TWO: Love's im/possible futures
5. The revolutionary love plot: On love, im/possibility and the common
Eleanor Wilkinson
6. A coal miner's apprenticeship: transforming industrial identity and rebuilding postindustrial worlds with love
Vickie Zhang
7. Love in times of impossibilization: making space for Alain Badiou
Arun Saldanha
8. 'In politics, love is a stranger': Baldwin, Arendt, and the geographies of liberation
Derek Ruez

PART THREE: Geophilia
9. The Iconographic landscape and the materiality of love
Mitch Rose
10. Letters to a glacier
LuLing Osofsky,
11. Eating (each other's) (hearts) out: mycelial love and the forest as queer con/figuration
Sage Brice. Kate Marston, Richard Wright, and Scarlet Hall,
12. Eros, orgasms, eco/geopoetics, and geophilosophy: Some creative reflections on loving and the climate catastrophe
Sarah de Leeuw
13. Lithic 'I love yous'
Harriet Hawkins, Long Ly Vouch, and Flora Parrott

Coda: Heart-breaking
Paul Harrison, Anna Secor, Mikko Joronen