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Minima Relata: A reflection on negative geographic life

Chris Lawer

Progress in Human Geography2026https://doi.org/10.1177/03091325261426499article
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This paper makes a conceptual intervention beside affirmationist and negative geographies. Deploying a novel linguistic-functional schema, it parses the latter's proliferating vocabularies, problematics, and conceptual formations. From this analysis, drawing on Adorno's negative dialectics and Minima Moralia , it introduces Minima Relata: empirically graspable constellations of attenuated socio-spatial life that persist without becoming otherwise in a post-affirmationist relational limit zone. To apprehend them, the paper advances attenuational lingering as a perceptual-critical-empirical geographic stance, alongside a grammar of registers and an aesthetics for differentiating these often obscured modalities of contemporary socio-spatial life.

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@article{chris2026,
  title        = {{Minima Relata: A reflection on negative geographic life}},
  author       = {Chris Lawer},
  journal      = {Progress in Human Geography},
  year         = {2026},
  doi          = {https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1177/03091325261426499},
}

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