While ‘the social’ is problematized in diverse ways in current geographical debates this report reflects on the ongoing relevance of social geographies, especially those that attend to the complexity and interconnectivity of life. This review outlines three ways in which society-nature relations are being interrogated via: poststructural, posthuman and Indigenous foci. It concludes that important questions of social difference and unequal power relations remain relevant for more-than-human geographies.
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