Cultural geography: the busyness of being `more-than-representational'
@article{Lorimer2005CulturalGT, title={Cultural geography: the busyness of being `more-than-representational'}, author={Hayden Lorimer}, journal={Progress in Human Geography}, year={2005}, volume={29}, pages={83 - 94} }
© 2005 Edward Arnold (Publishers) Ltd 10.1191/0309132505ph531pr I Parameters, definitions and themes This is the first of three reports I will write covering an emergent area of research in cultural geography and its cognate fields. During recent years, ‘non-representational theory’ has become as an umbrella term for diverse work that seeks better to cope with our self-evidently more-than-human, more-than-textual, multisensual worlds. In as much as nonrepresentational work allows it, these…
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