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Kerstin Ekman has emerged as one of the important literary voices in Northern Europe challenging facile definitions of nature and inviting readers to reconsider conceptions of the local. She accomplishes this by using ecological models in her fiction that explore how human subjects exist in interdependent relationships with their environments intertwining space with experience and memory to produce constellations of significance and meaning. The materiality of the space combines with human discourse to create a sense of place situated between immediate and the distant and between the constructed and the found.In particular, her 1993 work, Handelser vid vatten [Blackwater] explores an ecological model of ontology in which all elements are intricately interconnected in myriad ways that question, among other things, the construction of place and the role of both materiality and place in an increasingly mobile, technologically mediated, and globalized world. My purpose is to consider Ekman's model(s) of ecological interdependence in dialogue with the theoretical discussions of space and place that have emerged in recent decades, particularly within the field of ecocriticism. In Ekman's work, the decidedly human propensities for naming, narrating, manipulating, and constructing space are counterbalanced by an experience of materiality and the natural environment's ultimate ambivalence to anthropocentrism. The novel's network of competing narratives, memories, definitions, and confrontation with materiality tend to frustrate the classical modernist epistemological project by lacking clear linearity, diverging, converging, and doubling back on themselves. The effect is to focus readers' attention on how space is produced as a means of understanding the diffuse subject's being in the world as part of complex material and discursive networks as well as between the constructed and the found, the subjective and the objective, the embodied and the abstract, and the local and the global.Resumen Kerstin Ekman se ha revelado como una de las voces importantes en el norte de Europa por que ha desafiado las definiciones de naturaleza e invitado a los lectores a reconsiderar las nociones de lo local. Ekman emplea modelos ecologicos en su ficcion para explorar como los sujetos humanos participan en relaciones interdependientes con su entorno, donde el espacio se entrelaza con la experiencia y la memoria para producir redes de importancia y significado. La materialidad de la geografia se combina con el discurso humano para crear un sentido del lugar entre lo inmediato y lo remoto, entre lo construido y lo encontrado. En particular, su obra de 1993, Handelser vid vatten [Ocurrio a orillas del rio], explora un modelo ecologico de ontologia en el que todos los elementos se encuentran complejamente interconectados y se combinan para cuestionar tanto el papel  de la materialidad  el del lugar en un mundo globalizado cada vez mas movil, tecnologicamente mediado . Este ensayo considera como Ekman representa la interdependencia ecologica en dialogo con los debates teoricos mas recientes sobre el espacio y el lugar, especialmente dentro del campo  de la ecocritica.  En la obra de Ekman, la tendencia indudablemente humana por nombrar, narrar, manipular, y construir el espacio  se contrarresta con la experiencia de la materialidad y el descubrimiento de la indiferencia de la naturaleza hacia el interes humano.  En la novela, la red de narraciones y memorias que compiten  frustra un proyecto epistemologico estable ya que  carece  de una linealidad clara cuando estas se enfrentan a una materialidad geografica persistente. El efecto es centrar la atencion del lector en como el espacio y el lugar se presentan como parte  de la existencia en el mundo de un sujeto impreciso.  El lugar, para Ekman,  surge entre lo construido y lo encontrado, lo subjetivo y lo objetivo, lo incorporado y lo abstracto, y lo local y lo global.

Where the Ground Answers the Foot: Kerstin Ekman, Ecology, and the Sense of Place in a Globalized World