I was one of the people, maybe 8-9 years ago, who said on this listserv that I neither understood no could really see the excitement generated by Thrift's and other's ideas about non-representational theory. I just read the wiki page on NRT, which is what the public sees, and I am none the wiser.
In the 240 or so articles in the Journal of Political Ecology, most ones I have edited and most definitely a critical/radical journal, none have dealt with non-representational theory. It just does not gel with people studying environmental and social justice where material things, and things represented, are important [except maybe there are a few authors who will hopefully provides some references now!]
However an emerging special issue, 'Performing development roles: theorizing agriculture as performance' edited by Andrew Flachs, takes on related concepts. There is a strand of anthropology that looks at improvisation and practice, particularly in terms of making a living and specifically in farming practice. The anchor is Paul Richards' ideas, and he has an excellent contribution below building on Durkheim and Mary Douglas. His and the other articles get you to think how useful looking at 'practices' is , and how misguided scientists and ag extention people have been by not doing so. So, this has really practical implications. Enjoy.
The geographic question to you all, however, is this: what is the relationship between NRT, practice theory (big at Lancaster and Sheffield!) and performance studies? I really have no idea.
S
All in preprints, more coming. Journal of Political Ecology 25:xxx
Playing development roles: the political ecology of performance in agricultural development
Andrew Flachs, Paul Richards https://journals.uair.arizona.edu/index.php/JPE/article/view/23089
Peasant farming as improvisation: what theory do we possess and how might it be used?
Paul Richards
https://journals.uair.arizona.edu/index.php/JPE/article/view/23088
Agriculture as Spectacle
Glenn D Stone
https://journals.uair.arizona.edu/index.php/JPE/article/view/22385
Farming as a performance: a conceptual and methodological contribution to the ecology of practices
Dominic Glover
https://journals.uair.arizona.edu/index.php/JPE/article/view/22390
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