Uppsala lecture in Human Geography: Matthew Gandy

Professor Matthew Gandy, Department of Geography at the University of Cambridge, föreläser på engelska.

Attentive observation: walking, listening, staying put

In this lecture Professor Matthew Gandy suggests that a renewed emphasis on “attentive observation,” as both a form of radical empiricism and a source of imaginative insight, might contribute towards building a more nuanced conception of fieldwork that is better attuned to the multisensory and multispecies textures of material geographies. In this, he focuses on interactions with nature, landscape, and nonhuman others in an urban context. But the argument has wider connotations for concerns with embodied methodologies, critical phenomenology, and slower forms of research.

Conducting research in Germany, France, the US, Nigeria and the UK, Matthew Gandy has for more than two decades been at the forefront of both theorizing and historically uncovering the place of more-than-human nature, particularly in relation to cities and processes of urbanization. In eleven monographs or edited volumes, numerous academic articles, and two documentary movies his work has concerned the political ecology of water networks across the world, urban wilderness and unintentional landscapes, waste, epidemics, film, and methodology, as well as the cultural and natural history of the moth.

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