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Exploring Unsettling Landscapes: Climate Change and the Vulnerability of Everyday Environments

Dr. John Wylie, Associate Professor of Cultural Geography at the University of Exeter, examines the intricate relationships between landscape, locality, and environmental change. This work discusses the concept of "unsettling landscapes," focusing on how climate change impacts familiar everyday environments. It emphasizes the idea of vulnerability and feelings of un-homeliness that emerge from environmental transformations. By analyzing local landscapes, Wylie argues for a nuanced understanding of climate change, advocating for a perspective that views it as a relational phenomenon deeply connected to human experiences.

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Exploring Unsettling Landscapes: Climate Change and the Vulnerability of Everyday Environments

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  1. Unsettling Landscape Dr John Wylie Associate Prof of Cultural Geography University of Exeter j.w.wylie@exeter.ac.uk

  2. 1. Concepts of landscape, locality, and environmental change 2. Unsettling landscape: vulnerability and un-homeliness

  3. 1. Concepts of landscape, locality, and environmental change ‘A focus on the familiar landscapes of everyday life offers an opportunity to examine how climate change could be researched as a relational phenomenon, understood on a local level’ (Brace & Geoghagen, 2011, p.284) ‘It is part of our argument that landscape – in all its multifarious definitions and theorizations – grounds an understanding of climate and the ways it might change in a fundamental way’ (ibid, pp.288-289).

  4. 2. Unsettling landscape: vulnerability and un-homeliness ‘Thinking through the human in terms of a constitutive vulnerability to forces beyond its control’ N. Clark (2010) ‘Volatile Worlds, Vulnerable Bodies’, TCS, p.47 Landscape names ‘the thought of presence as withdrawn from itself: estranged and unsettled presence, from which all the gods have departed and the humans are always still to come’ J-N Nancy (2005) ‘Uncanny Landscape’ p.62

  5. From ‘The Grounds’ by Phillip Gross (The Water Table, 2009) Indefinable grounds: don’t try to set foot, not even if some craft could steady in these mud-thick shallows (almost ground) by ground almost as loose as water. Don’t count on your fine distinctions then.

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