Geographies of postsecularity: Re-envisioning politics, subjectivity and ethics.

Cloke, Paul, Baker, Christopher, Sutherland, Colin and Williams, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8030-4829 2019. Geographies of postsecularity: Re-envisioning politics, subjectivity and ethics. Routledge Research in Place, Space and Politics, Abingdon: Routledge. 10.4324/9781315670614

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Abstract

This book explores the hopeful possibility that emerging geographies of postsecularity are able to contribute significantly to the understanding of how common life may be shared, and how caring for the common goods of social justice, well-being, equality, solidarity and respect for difference may be imagined and practiced. Drawing on recent geographic theory to recalibrate ideas of the postsecular public sphere, the authors develop the case for postsecularity as a condition of being that is characterised by practices of receptive generosity, rapprochement between religious and secular ethics, and a hopeful re-enchantment and re-shaping of desire towards common life. The authors highlight the contested formation of ethical subjectivity under neoliberalism and the emergence of postsecularity within this process as an ethically-attuned politics which changes relations between religion and secularity and animates novel, hopeful imaginations, subjectivities, and praxes as alternatives to neoliberal norms. The spaces and subjectivities of emergent postsecularity are examined through a series of innovative case studies, including food banks, drug and alcohol treatment, refugee humanitarian activism in Calais, homeless participatory art projects, community responses to the Christchurch earthquakes in New Zealand, amongst others. The book also traces the global conditions for postsecularity beyond the Western and predominantly Christian-secular nexus of engagement.

Item Type:	Book
Book Type:	Authored Book
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Geography and Planning (GEOPL)
Publisher:	Routledge
ISBN:	9781138946736
Last Modified:	25 Oct 2022 13:05
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/118843

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