ABSTRACT
One of the main concerns of human geography is the relation between human culture and the natural environment. Dominant ways of thinking in geography are often premised upon the severance of subjects and objects. In geography, the concept of dwelling owes its reputation to the work of Tim Ingold, an anthropologist with an interest in hunter-gatherer societies, human–animal relationships and human ecology. In geography notions of dwelling have been extensively deployed in re-materializing and reembodying cultural geographies of landscape. Many commentators have turned to dwelling as a means to renovate the conceptual basis of a field which was felt to be ‘sliding out of sight’ with the performative turn and nascent critiques to representation. Notions of dwelling provide a valuable route for those seeking to re-theorize human–nature relations. A useful employment of dwelling in geography must extend its interpretative scope beyond the analysis of traditional pre-industrial societies.
