Dear list-members,
with apologies for the self-promotion, we thought some of you may be interested in the publication of
'Taking-Place: Non-Representational Theories and Human Geography' eds. Ben Anderson and Paul Harrison
If you are a journal book review editor and would like to receive a review copy please contact Maureen Lazenby([log in to unmask]) at Ashgate.
best wishes,
Paul and Ben
Department of Geography, Durham University
Science Laboratories, South Road
Durham, DH1 3LE
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 difference, Arun Saldanha; Working with multiples: a non-representational approach to environmental issues, Steve Hinchliffe; Events, spontaneity and abrupt conditions, Keith Woodward; Envisioning the future: ontology, time and the politics of non-representation, Mitch Rose; Indexes.
'Non-representational theories have exercised the discipline more than most in the first decade of the 21st century. This collection provides insights into what moved a generation of geographers to experiment this style of work, and where such experimentation might still lead.'
Sarah J. Whatmore, University of Oxford, UK
'I read the manuscript of this book in two (long) sittings. I felt impelled to do so, to keep turning the pages. I was excited, moved, surprised, inspired; but always learning, sensing possibilities for thought-and-action leading me far from my academic comfort zone. As a gathering together of the remarkable intellectual and creative energies released by non-representational theory, this volume is a mightily impressive achievement where the multiple "rough grounds" of bodies, lives, events, movements, relations and spaces are allowed to challenge singular constructs of nature, society, politics, ethics, the human and the future. The volume serves simultaneously as a work of exposition and experiment, a rejoinder to critics, an elaboration of further paths, and a generous affirmation of responding geographically to more-than-representational worlds.'
Chris Philo, University of Glasgow, UK
'Taking Place is a beautifully illustrated map of the most interesting work being pursued in geography today. It explores what nature, culture, language, and ethics can become once "social constructivism" has to share the bill with a variety of new materialisms. The book is a wonderful resource for political theorists, ethnographers, urbanists, ecophilosophers, and anyone interested in the strange magic of the encounter between things, events, places, and our accounts of them'
Jane Bennett, The Johns Hopkins University, USA