Owain Jones
Stepping from the wreckage: Geography, pragmatism
and anti-representational theory
Jones, Owain
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Abstract
This paper draws out linkages between non-representational theory (NRT) and pragmatism. In doing so it sets NRT in a much wider, historical anti-representational movement. This should add momentum to its progress, and open up the considerable pragmatist and neo-pragmatist heritage as a resource for dealing with questions about methods, politics and ethics that NRT raises. Firstly I outline pragmatism and NRT to ground the discussion. Secondly the convergences between pragmatism, poststructuralism and the later work
of Wittgenstein are considered. After that I go through a series of working principles which can underpin what is being termed anti-representational theory. These include; the primacy of life and action, pluralism, materiality/spatiality/temporality/relationality, anti-essentialism, creativity, collectivity, fallibilism, and disorder in method. I conclude by considering anti-representational knowledge production through radical incrementalism underpinned by witness and narrative.
Citation
and anti-representational theory. Geoforum, 39(4), 1600-1612. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2007.10.003
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Publication Date | Jan 1, 2008 |
Deposit Date | Jan 12, 2011 |
Publicly Available Date | Jun 25, 2016 |
Journal | Geoforum |
Print ISSN | 0016-7185 |
Publisher | Elsevier |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 39 |
Issue | 4 |
Pages | 1600-1612 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2007.10.003 |
Keywords | pragmatism, non-representational theory, anti-representational theory, geography |
Public URL | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/1019559 |
Publisher URL | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2007.10.003 |
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