Deutsche Gesellschaft
für phänomenologische Forschung

Lecture Series | Paper

On the Environmentality of Postcolonial Landscapes

Tao DuFour

Montag 14 Oktober 2024

18:15 - 19:00

This lecture examines the lived experience of Caribbean landscapes, with a view to understanding its generative constitution. It considers theoretical questions around embodiment and spatiality that concern ways in which experiences of environmental horizons take on a shared quality, coloured by relations with others across generations. An examination of this quality, which can be described as the generativity of landscape experience, is what the lecture frames as its environmentality. Questions of the generative transfer of spatio-environmental sense implicate complex interpretative problems, when colonial and postcolonial legacies of migration that involved mass and forcible displacements of populations are taken into consideration. Such conditions define the historical situation through which Caribbean landscapes emerged; with reference to this Caribbean situation, we will consider the environmentality of postcolonial landscapes.