Less-than-human geographies
Less-than-human geographies
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缺乏人文地理
DOI:
10.1016/j.polgeo.2016.11.014
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发表时间:
2017
影响因子:
4.1
通讯作者:
Philo C
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作者:
Philo C
It was freezing cold, snow covered everything: the Jews, chilled to the bone, hurried to the selection point in the hope of leaving the camp as soon as possible. They were loaded into trucks driven by Ukrainian drivers; their belongings were piled separately into other vehicles. Then they were brought in convoys to Rogan, a remote suburb of the city, and shot in balki, ravines chosen by our surveyors. Their belongings were brought to warehouses to be sorted and then distributed to Volkdeutschen…. In this way, the camp was emptied in small groups each day. Just before the New Year, I went to attend an execution.… Fresh blood splattered the snow, flowed into the bottom of the ravine, spread in pools on the ground, hardened by cold; it didn’t freeze, but stagnated, viscous. All around, the grey, dead stems of sunflowers dotted the white fields. All sounds, even the shouts and the gunfire, were muted; underfoot, the snow crunched.… Everything was white, terrifyingly white, except the blood staining everything, the snow, the men, my coat. In the sky, great formations of wild ducks calmly flew south.(Littell, 2010: 176)I have taken this passage, almost at random, from Jonathan Littell’s 975 page epic novel, The Kindly Ones (originally Littell, 2006). It recounts the war-time experiences of Max Aue, an SS intelligence officer, somewhat implausibly moving between the Eastern Front, the siege of Stalingrad, the running of the death camps and then the fall of Berlin. Aue does not excuse his involvement nor deny his guilt, but strives to contextualise his experiences: indeed, relentlessly to contextualise the times, places and events witnessed, as well as his own (in) actions, through an often indigestible mass of detail about countless materials, human and non-human, personalities and machines, psychologies and ecologies, that were the stuff of his war. The contexts suggest an accumulating push of the worlds in which Aue was unavoidably caught, hinting at what kept happening for him in those nanoseconds between event and its recognition, yet alone rationalisation or provoking of repulsion. Swimming into view is the chrono-logical gap between act and its apprehension which has been the departure-point for much non-representational geography (Harrison, 2000; Philo, 2011: 366-367), the gap wherein the ‘animal human’seizes life before the ‘human human’can do much about it, when the human folds into what other geographers are now routinely calling the ‘more-than-human’
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发表时间:
2016
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作者:
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通讯作者:
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DOI:
10.1068/d13002p
发表时间:
2014
期刊:
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2010
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2016
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发表时间:
2013
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作者:
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