Cultural geography: non-representational conditions and concerns

Lorimer, Hayden

doi:10.1177/0309132507086882

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“…The theoretical frameworks that inform this paper are those of NRT or, reflecting the ongoing importance of traditional representation, more-than-representational theories (Lorimer, 2008;Thrift, 2008;Ryan, 2012). Within medical and health geographies, the use of NRT have been slowly making ground, if not always explicitly.…”

Section: Nrt Affect and Therapeutic Geographiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This paper is concerned with less explicitly measurable, but more qualitatively expressed dimensions of swimming as a healthy activity. It uses a therapeutic landscapes framework in conjunction with emergent theoretical thinking within medical/health geography, specifically around non-representational theories (NRT) (Lorimer, 2008;Andrews et al, 2014). As a linked set of ideas drawn from wider cultural theory, NRT, with their concerns with pre-cognitive processes, embodiment and affect, explores the often ineffable everyday aspects of living in place (Game and Metcalfe, 2011;Anderson, 2014).…”

Section: Introduction: Immersion Water and Spacementioning

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“…The idea of immersion draws on phenomenological concerns, updated within NRT, with personplace interactions and the specific relations between bodies, practices and multi-sensual environments, where surroundContents lists available at ScienceDirect journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/healthplace sounds, touch, and proprioception have explicitly embodied dimensions (Lorimer, 2008;Andrews et al, 2014). Research on coastal landscapes identifies therapeutic potentials around immersion, though these tend to be more contemplative, based on views of water (Wylie, 2005;White et al, 2010;Ryan, 2012).…”

Section: Introduction: Immersion Water and Spacementioning

confidence: 99%

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Swimming in Ireland: Immersions in therapeutic blue space

Foley

2015

Health & Place

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a b s t r a c tThis paper explores swimming as a healthy body-water engagement in blue space at selected outdoor Irish swimming spots. Associated theoretical underpinnings draw from non-representational theories (NRT). Taking as a starting point the idea of immersion, the paper argues for a deeper application of NRT to blue space settings. In addition, the paper reflects recent therapeutic geographies research on differential experiences of health and wellbeing linked to such immersions. Methodologically, the paper uses observer participation and swimmer's own voices to draw affective and embodied accounts from on and within water. The act of swimming as an emplaced and performed therapeutic encounter is highlighted along with a more critical discussion of contested narratives associated with risk and respect. Theoretical learning suggests the need for greater attention to the production of affect from across the life-course and a fuller articulation of the in-betweenness of theory and empirical testimonies. Swimming emerges from the study as a potentially valuable health and wellbeing resource that can be more fully harnessed to inform wider public health policy.

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Section: Nrt Affect and Therapeutic Geographiesmentioning

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Section: Introduction: Immersion Water and Spacementioning

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Section: Introduction: Immersion Water and Spacementioning

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Swimming in Ireland: Immersions in therapeutic blue space

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2015

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“…Interestingly, even accepted/recognised difference didn't detract from relating between different rurals: [insert Figure 4 here] Such narratives beg consideration of 'non-representational theory' and the ways in which precognitive embodied experiences may be integral to conceptions of self identity and spatial practices through landscape as performed, enactive and emergent (see Lorimer (2008) for an overview of the important contributions NRT is making within geographical thinking). While I believe the research highlights the importance of paying closer attention to everyday sensual embodiment-as-habit (the intuitive work of the body) with regards to nature, my point in this paper is that only considering unreflective embodiment can limit 'belonging' to everyday physical environments.…”

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Crossing divides: Ethnicity and rurality

Askins

2009

Journal of Rural Studies

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This paper draws on research with people from African, Caribbean and Asian backgrounds regarding perceptions and use of the English countryside. I explore the complex ways in which the category 'rural' was constructed as both essentialised and relational: how the countryside was understood most definitely as 'not-city' but also, at the same time, the English countryside was conceived as part of a range of networks: one site in a web of 'nature places' across the country, as well as one rural in an international chain of rurals -specifically via embodied and emotional connections with 'nature'. I argue that alongside sensed/sensual embodiment (the non-representational intuitive work of the body), we need also to consider reflective embodiment as a desire to space/place in order to address the structural socio-spatial exclusions endemic in (rural) England and how they are challenged. I suggest that a more progressive conceptualisation of rurality -a 'transrural' open to issues of mobility and desire -can help us disrupt dominant notions of rural England as only an exclusionary white space, and reposition it as a site within multicultural, multiethnic, transnational and mobile social I explored issues regarding ethnicity, rurality and national belonging in contemporary England, and was tasked with writing a policy report alongside the thesis 2 . As I read the academic work around my research, I increasingly became aware of a dichotomy. There was a rich body of literature around ethnic identity, diversity, hybridity, multiculturalism, cosmopolitanism, etc., including critical perspectives problematising these concepts and how they play out in society, but always and only embedded in the urban sphere (eg. Alexander, 2000;Amin, 2002; Back and Solomos, 2003;Brah,et al. 1999;Hesse, 2000;Mirza, 1997;Parekh, 2000a;2000b). At the same time, especially within geography, there was interest in the ways in which rurality/rural space is implicated within national identity construction, notions of belonging and spatial practices 3 . In the English context, the national imagery of rural space appeared to exclude ethnic minorities, among other groups, from accessing the countryside, both physically and emotionally (Cloke & Little, 1997;Milbourne, 1997). The connection between the rural as the 'genuine' England and not multicultural was highlighted in the Henderson and Kaur, 1999;Kinsman, 1995;Malik, 1992). However, there had been a lack of empirical work at that time to examine these issues further: ethnic minorities were perhaps too easily theorised and written as excluded 'rural others'. Indeed, Little (1999:438) voiced concern regarding the use of the term 'rural others' in general, "the lack of theoretical discussion around 'the other' and 'the same'", the paucity of recognition of the power relations complicit in such a categorisation, and the "static treatment of both individual and group identity".

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“…It upsets and angers me that many conferences/seminars (in my discipline anyway) adhere to structures that predominantly exclude engagement with emotions. And this connects to those debates around affect, emotion and non-representational or beyond-representational theory (Thrift 2004;Lorimer 2008) … a serious consideration of the emotional doings and knowings in (activist) research must prompt us to rethink our practices around circulating 'research outcomes'. Certainly, sessions that dispense with paper presentations and/or panel discussions can be threatening to an established/expected order, but in so being there emerges a potentiality of/for new/other ways of engaging in and with emotions.…”

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‘That's just what I do’: Placing emotion in academic activism

Askins

2009

Emotion, Space and Society

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In this paper, I wish to critically reflect on the role of emotion/s in how I position myself with regards to research, teaching and learning, drawing on experiences over the past three years as a human geography lecturer 'doing' research with refugees and asylum seekers in a local inner city area. While there has been increasing debate regarding what constitutes 'the activist academic', in particular deconstructing any dualism or border between 'academic' and 'activist', the motivation for undertaking such a role is generally ascribed to an 'ideological commitment' to social and personal change of one type or another. For me, such a commitment cannot be separated from how I feel about the issues that I research, learn and teach about. In particular, I explore how emotions relate across different spaces and places in my life to produce motivation for activism and how that activism -specifically the encounters with people through it -feeds back into emotional geographies across my professional (and personal) endeavours. More broadly, I'm concerned with the ways in which emotional becomings and the interconnectivities across spaces of activity/ism and everyday life play out beyond my own individual subjective experience, but rather are caught up in 'situated, relational perspectives' (after Bondi, 2005). I argue that recognising the significance of emotion has implications for how we conduct and disseminate research.

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Cultural geography: non-representational conditions and concerns

Cited by 250 publications

References 84 publications

Swimming in Ireland: Immersions in therapeutic blue space

Swimming in Ireland: Immersions in therapeutic blue space

Crossing divides: Ethnicity and rurality

‘That's just what I do’: Placing emotion in academic activism

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