Geographies against bifurcation

Abstract

Geographers have much to learn from speculative philosophy, which can provide us with theoretical tools to broaden our modes of analysis and understandings of research subjects. Following Alfred North Whitehead's radical proposal for altering how we prescribe meaning to ‘experience’, Tom Roberts introduces areas of thought within ‘more-than-human geography’ and its overlaps with new materialisms where Whiteheadian analysis offers an experiential rupture. We concur with Roberts’ proposal, and, through conversing this thesis with the work of Isabelle Stengers and Didier Debaise, suggest that Whitehead offers unique conceptual tools for resisting geography's ‘bifurcation’. This intervention, we hold, has never been timelier given the ecological collapse of increasingly weird worlds.