Cultural Geographies of Love and Catastrophe
Anna J Secor editor Dr Paul Harrison editor Dr Mikko Joronen editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
Publishing:31st Aug '26
£95.00
This title is due to be published on 31st August, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
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.
This timely and intellectually daring collection rethinks love in all its ambivalence—at once destructive and redemptive, intimate and world-making. Refusing easy definitions, it traces love through catastrophe, vulnerability, and political possibility, offering urgent and provocative insights into the affective, political, and planetary conditions of the present. -- Alenka Zupančič, The Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
What a theme - and what a collection. Cultural Geographies of Love and Catastrophe offers its readers stories of love in many forms, and never wavers from its conviction and purpose in exploring how love and catastrophe are always intertwined. And always geographical too, as we learn how love and catastrophe stitch and unravel spaces, temporalities and subjectivities. This will be essential reading for researchers and students in cultural geography and well beyond. -- John Wylie, University of Bristol
If love is a problem of knowledge, a frantic confusion of language, this volume is about the stranger pleasures of addressing love yet never being able to. It is a love letter to the demands of incompletion, allowing us the fascination of what is unsatisfying, unsupportable. -- Jessica Dubow, Lancaster University
ISBN: 9781399545587
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240 pages