Fluidity–Fixity

Within geography and beyond an undercurrent of tension seems to have emerged which has influenced much of the epistemological and ontological conceptions that underpin geographical philosophies. We can trace this disquiet back to certain assumptions surrounding the relationship between fixity and fluidity. More often than not, these assumptions have given primacy to either fixity, the immobility of something remaining in place – a metaphorical notion of permanence; or the occasionally disconcerting sense of fluidity – movement, mobility, or flux of a world in process. This article also explores efforts that try to break out of these dualisms.