ABSTRACT
This chapter sets out some basic premises of a relational approach to spaces and places, which revolves around a critical review of ‘post-humanistic new materialism’ ontology. From that premise post-humanism and new materialism is dealt with in turn, before deploying these on the world's continually unfolding spatialization. Articulating what it means to be human is well beyond the scope of this chapter, or this book for that matter. The authors modest contribution builds on the work of others in debating the terms of 'post-humanism.' The chapter unravels the connotation of 'human' as being something separate or special. Inspired by the featuring of the boiling mud-pots and fumaroles of N+ímaskar , Iceland,it is seen how the Earth talks back. The chapter says that humans are fluid and profoundly geo-graphical beings. It indicates that there are injustices in the current power geometries as there have been through the times.
