What are the spatial ontologies that insidiously shape the landscape narratives we tell? And if narratives are contingent on future worlds, what biopolitics do they carry in order to emerge and unfold into conditioning landscapes?
There is a deep-rooted tendency to think of landscapes as discrete, self-emerging entities bound by a taken-for-granted Cartesian space. But what has emerged from these landscapes are colonial and capitalist narratives that have naturalized and morally justified the ‘scaping’ of land through demarcation and enclosure; narratives imposing on people future dreams set by dominant forces based on the fantasy that greening is universally ‘good’ and that development and modernity locating at certain areas are processes ‘without an outside’.