What is it about?
An exploration of the potential challenges the methodology known as 'following the thing' or 'material geographies' faces in an age where globalization has become an everyday condition of life.
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Why is it important?
It attempts to move this specific methodology forward and enable it to better address the collateral damage of capitalistic commodity chains.
Perspectives
Fundamentally, I feel material geographies provide an exciting methodological tool. My concern is that they may begin to appear 'dated' and are easily part of a rhetoric that is simply wedded to ethical consumption as opposed to wider structural critique. This article attempts to start a discussion about how we can push the methodology further and not allow it to become a 'weak' version of itself.
Dr Alison Hulme
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This page is a summary of: Following the (unfollowable) thing: methodological considerations in the era of high globalisation, Cultural Geographies, July 2016, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/1474474016647370.
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