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100 _aJouni Häkli
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245 _aWhat can flat ontology teach the legislator?/
260 _bsage,
_c2020.
300 _aVol 10, issue 2, 2020 : (370–373 p.).
520 _aThis commentary on James Ash’s ‘Flat Ontology and Geography’ makes three points. First, it notes the prominence of different versions of flat ontology in human geography and supports Ash’s attempt to make sense of how flat ontology thinking has impacted human geographical scholarship by working through a politically contested real-world case. Second, by framing Ash’s project as a ‘reality check’, the commentary engages in a critical assessment of what added value flat ontological approaches, Tristan Garcia’s thinking included, may have to offer to our understanding of the non-flat world of value, hierarchy and difference. Third, it locates a problematic gap between flat ontological imaginaries and the phenomenal world of importance and suggests that to avoid academic escapism, we need convincing ways to bridge this gap. To conclude, the commentary joins in Ash’s caution against the overemphasis of connectedness, emergence and contingency in much flat ontological thought.
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_dSage Publications Ltd., 2019
_tDialogues in human geography.
_w(OSt)20840795
_x2043-8214
856 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1177/2043820620940055
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