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Multispecies homescapes
Authors: Schuurman Nora
Publisher: Sage
Publication year: 2024
Journal: Progress in Human Geography
Journal name in source: Progress in Human Geography
Volume: 48
Issue: 5
First page : 655
Last page: 668
ISSN: 0309-1325
eISSN: 1477-0288
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/03091325241240563
Web address : https://doi.org/10.1177/03091325241240563
Self-archived copy’s web address: https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/393413477
Abstract
This paper proposes a change in the conceptualisation of home, as part of a wider paradigmatic transformation in the understandings of the boundaries between humans and animals, and nature and culture. A new concept of multispecies homescapes is suggested, building on recent work on human–animal relationships as well as writings on the home in human geography. Multispecies homescapes are approached as imaginary spaces, including experiences of sharing home with other species, the limits and liminalities of homeness, and the loss of a multispecies home. Imagining home as multispecies will widen the scope of research beyond anthropocentric understandings of domestic space.
This paper proposes a change in the conceptualisation of home, as part of a wider paradigmatic transformation in the understandings of the boundaries between humans and animals, and nature and culture. A new concept of multispecies homescapes is suggested, building on recent work on human–animal relationships as well as writings on the home in human geography. Multispecies homescapes are approached as imaginary spaces, including experiences of sharing home with other species, the limits and liminalities of homeness, and the loss of a multispecies home. Imagining home as multispecies will widen the scope of research beyond anthropocentric understandings of domestic space.
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