Place and Animism: Geographies of (co)dwelling in shared worlds

• Autor(a) principal: Souza Júnior, Carlos Roberto Bernardes de
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: GeoTextos (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufba.br/index.php/geotextos/article/view/49967
• topic: More-than-human worlds; Dwelling; Placeness; Intersubjectivity; Eco-phenomenology; Mundos mais-que-humanos; Habitar; Lugaridade; Intersubjetividade; Eco-fenomenologia

Due to the contemporary socio-environmental crisis, human sciences have sought out other ways to comprehend the reality that transcend the dichotomies of cartesian thought. One such alternative is the rehabilitation of animism in its potential of decentering anthropocentrism and valorize non-human consciousness. This essay, thus, seeks to problematize the concept of place in cultural and humanist geography through contemporary animistic influences, especially its eco-phenomenological perspective. It considers that placeness has more-than-human meanings through which it manifests intersubjective, intercorporal and interanimal ways of feeling and thinking the conditions of earthly co-dwelling. The cross-pollination of human and non-human sense of places highlight the experiential multiplicities of geographical reality. This process is a consequence of the strange kinship that intertwines plants, animals, rocks, atmospheres and other-than-human phenomena in webs of earthly inherences and co-vulnerabilities. It concludes that more than regard dwelling, places converge in reversibility, interdependency, communication and tension that are consequences of polyphonic co-dwelling in shared worlds.