Abstract
Landscape research has seen a burgeoning of interest in notions of 'affect', 'doing', 'performance' and 'practice' in the past decade or so. Although these notions can be parceled together in a variety of ways, in this chapter I want to situate them within the range of work dealing with what has come to be termed more-than-representational theories (Lorimer 2005). As a style of thinking, more-than-representational theories emerged in the mid-1990s in response to the 'mesmerized attention' given to texts and images, which, as Nigel Thrift (2000: 380) argued, had occluded 'a lot of the little things'. Originally termed 'non-representational theory' (and still referred to as such by a number of scholars) or 'the theory of practices', more-than-representational thinking is today associated primarily with the fields of cultural and political geography, and the work of Ben Anderson, John-David Dewsbury, Paul Harrison, Hayden Lorimer, Derek McComack and John Wylie, all of whom, like Thrift, are geographers based in UK universities. Many have connections to the University of Bristol's School of Geographical Sciences (Cresswell 2012), where non-representational theory first emerged. Although it is an approach with a particularly strong UK adherence,it has been applied in geographical contexts that range from Britain to Denmark, Canada, Hong Kong, Argentina, Hungary, the United States and Australia, to name a few.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | The Routledge Companion to Landscape Studies |
Editors | Peter Howard, Ian Thompson, Emma Waterton, Mick Atha |
Place of Publication | U.K. |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 91-101 |
Number of pages | 11 |
Edition | 2nd |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781315195063 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781138720312 |
Publication status | Published - 2019 |
Keywords
- landscapes
- human geography
- cultural landscapes
- landscape design
- social sciences