Taking-place: non-representational theories and geography

"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."--Publisher's website.

The promise of non-representational theories / Ben Anderson and Paul Harrison.

Part I Life: Vitalist geographies: life and the more-than-human / Beth Greenhough.-- Forces of nature, forms of life: calibrating ethology and phenomenology / Hayden Lorimer.-- Placing affective relations: uncertain geographies of pain / David Bissell.-- Non-representational subjects? / John Wylie.

Part II Representation: Representation and difference / Marcus Doel.-- Representation and everyday use: how to feel things with words / Eric Laurier.-- Language and the event: The unthought of appearing worlds / J-D. Dewsbury.-- Testimony and the truth of the other / Paul Harrison.

Interlude: 'The 27th letter': an interview with Nigel Thrift, Nigel Thrift, Paul Harrison and Ben Anderson.

Part III Ethics: Thinking in transition: the affirmative refrain of experience/experiment / Derek P. McCormack.-- Encountering O/other bodies: practice, emotion and ethics / Kirsten Simonsen.-- 'Just being there ... ' ethics, experimentation and the cultivation of care / Jonathan Darling.-- Ethics and the non-human: the matterings of animal sentience in the meat industry / Emma Roe.

Part IV Politics: Politics and differe…