Emerging over the past ten years from a set of post-structuralist theoretical lineages, non-representational theories are having a major impact within Human Geography. Non-representational theorisation and research has opened up new sets of problematics around the body, practice and performativity and inspired new ways of doing and writing human geography that aim to engage with the taking-place of everyday life. 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. The collection is structured around four thematic sections - Life, Representation, Ethics and Politics - which explore the varied relations between non-representational theories and contemporary human geography.
1: The Promise of Non-Representational Theories; 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?; 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; Interlude; 10: 'The 27th Letter': An Interview with Nigel Thrift; 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; 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-Representation
