Non-representational theory
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Non-representational theory is the study of a specific
Definition
Instead of studying and representing social relationships, non-representational theory focuses upon practices – how human and nonhuman formations are enacted or performed – not simply on what is produced.[4] "First, it valorizes those processes that operate before … conscious, reflective thought … [and] second, it insists on the necessity of not prioritizing representations as the primary epistemological vehicles through which knowledge is extracted from the world".[5] Recent studies have examined a wide range of activities including dance,[4][6] musical performance,[7] walking,[8] gardening,[9] rave,[10] listening to music[11] and children's play.[12]
Post-structuralist origins
This is a
Criticism
Critics have suggested that Thrift's use of the term "non-representational theory" is problematic, and that other non-representational theories could be developed.
References
- ^ Thrift, N. 2000. "Non-representational theory" in RJ Johnston, D Gregory, G Pratt and M Watts (eds) The Dictionary of Human Geography (Blackwell, Oxford)
- ^ Thrift, N. 2007. Non-representational theory: Space, Politics, Affect (Routledge, London)
- ^ McCormack, D.P., 2017. The circumstances of post‐phenomenological life worlds. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 42(1), pp.2-13.
- ^ a b Thrift, Nigel; 1997; 'The still point: expressive embodiment and dance', in Pile, S and Keith, M (eds.), Geographies of Resistance; (Routledge) pp 124–151
- S2CID 14878136. Retrieved 1 January 2015.
- ^ Derek, McCormack; 2003; 'Geographies for Moving Bodies: Thinking, Dancing, Spaces'; (Sage)
- ^ Morton, Frances; 2005; 'Performing ethnography: Irish traditional music sessions and new methodological spaces' (Taylor and Frances)
- ^ Wylie, John; 2005' A single day's walking: narrating self and landscape on the South West Coast Path' (Transactions of the British Geographers)
- ^ Crouch, David; 2003; 'Performances and constitutions of natures: a consideration of the performance of lay geographies'
- ^ Saldanha; 2005; 'Trance and visibility at dawn: racial dynamics in Goa's rave scene' 2005
- ^ Anderson; 2004; 'A Principle of Hope: Recorded Music, Listening Practices and the Immanence of Utopia'
- ^ Harker; 'Playing and affective time-spaces'
- ISBN 0918024528.
- ISBN 9780822339175.
- S2CID 16424758. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
- ^ a b Smith, Richard G., 2003; "Baudrillard's nonrepresentational theory: burn the signs and journey without maps" in Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 21; pp 67–84
- ^ Whatmore, S. 2002. Hybrid Geographies (Sage)
- ^ Lorimer, H., 2005; "Cultural geography: the busyness of being 'more-than-representational'", Progress in Human Geography 29, 1 (2005) pp. 83–94
Further reading
- Macpherson, H. (2010), Non‐Representational Approaches to Body–Landscape Relations. Geography Compass, 4: 1-13. doi:10.1111/j.1749-8198.2009.00276.x