Taking-place : non-representational theories and geography / edited by Ben Anderson and Paul Harrison.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Anderson, Ben, 1972-

Contributor:

Harrison, Paul.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Geography.

Anthropology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (393 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Drawing together a range of innovative contributions from leading writers, this is the first book to provide an extensive and in-depth overview of non-representational theories and human geography. The work addresses the core themes of this still developing field, demonstrates the implications of non-representational theories for many aspects of human geographic thought and practice, and highlights areas of emergent critical debate.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Table; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 The Promise of Non-Representational Theories; Part I Life; 2 Vitalist Geographies: Life and the More-Than-Human; 3 Forces of Nature, Forms of Life: Calibrating Ethology and Phenomenology; 4 Placing Affective Relations: Uncertain Geographies of Pain; 5 Non-Representational Subjects?; Part II Representation; 6 Representation and Difference; 7 Representation and Everyday Use: How to Feel Things with Words; 8 Language and the Event: The Unthought of Appearing Worlds; 9 Testimony and the Truth of the Other

Interlude10 'The 27th Letter': An Interview with Nigel Thrift; Part III Ethics; 11 Thinking in Transition: The Affirmative Refrain of Experience/Experiment; 12 Encountering O/other Bodies: Practice, Emotion and Ethics; 13 'Just Being There ...' : Ethics, Experimentation and the Cultivation of Care; 14 Ethics and the Non-Human: The Matterings of Animal Sentience in the Meat Industry; Part IV Politics; 15 Politics and Difference; 16 Working with Multiples: A Non-Representational Approach to Environmental Issues; 17 Events, Spontaneity and Abrupt Conditions

18 Envisioning the Future: Ontology, Time and the Politics of Non-RepresentationIndex; Index of Names

Notes:

"First published 2010 by Ashgate Publishing"--t.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-317-04696-X

1-315-61179-1

1-317-04695-1

1-282-61492-4

9786612614927

1-4094-0896-5

9781315611792

OCLC:

645937955