ABSTRACT
For the past 50 years or so, the most common way in academic research to grapple with the challenging ontological status of place has been to render the concept operationalizable as either an "objective" entity. The proposition that the author wish to offer is that we do not approach place as either a subjective or objective entity. Karen Barad is a feminist philosopher of science trained as a quantum physicist. In her scholarly project she develops and philosophically formalizes some of the crucial insights of groundbreaking relational materialists such as John Law, Donna Haraway and Bruno Latour. Relational geographers managed to side-step the fruitless quarrels of the various reductionist takes on place through conceptualizing places as "thrown-together" and entangled "bundles of trajectories" always concomitantly both "social" and "material". Hakli and Kallio have argued that recognition as a subject "is not just a matter of due respect or courtesy, but a vital need".
