More‐Than‐Representational Political Geographies

Müller, Martín

doi:10.1002/9781118725771.ch30

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“…These aspects render assemblage thinking and ANT of particular interest not only to political geographers but indeed to anyone examining the exercise of power and politics. Within political geography, there have recently been explicit calls for a broader move towards socio‐materiality, mobilising assemblages and actor‐networks as concepts (Depledge ; Dittmer ; Müller ).…”

Section: Assemblages and Actor‐network: New Paradigms?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Assemblages and Actor‐networks: Rethinking Socio‐material Power, Politics and Space

2015

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Assemblage thinking and actor-network theory (ANT) have been at the forefront of a paradigm shift that sees space and agency as the result of associating humans and non-humans to form precarious wholes. This shift offers ways of rethinking the relations between power, politics and space from a more processual, socio-material perspective. After sketching and comparing the concepts of the assemblage and the actor-network, this paper reviews the current scholarship in human geography which clusters around the four themes of deterritorialisation/reterritorialisation; power; materials, objects and technologies; and topological space. Looking towards the future, it suggests that assemblage thinking and ANT would benefit from exploring links with other social theories, arguing for a more sustained engagement with issues of language and power, and affect and the body.

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Section: Assemblages and Actor‐network: New Paradigms?mentioning

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Assemblages and Actor‐networks: Rethinking Socio‐material Power, Politics and Space

2015

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“…To tackle these questions emerging from an understanding of nationalism as affective, we draw on a Deleuzian notion of affect that has recently gained popularity among political geographers (Müller, 2015;Pile, 2010;Thrift, 2004) interested in investigating the affective constituents of (geo)politics and the state (Carter & McCormack, 2006;O Tuathail, 2003;Woodward, 2014;Yea, 2015). In our paper we develop an understanding of affect that combines Deleuzian and feminist approaches.…”

Section: Affective Nationalismmentioning

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Affective nationalism: Banalities of belonging in Azerbaijan

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2016

Political Geography

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While Michael Billig's 'banal nationalism' points to the significance of the trivial reproduction of national representations in everyday routines, feminist political geographers have highlighted how the nation is brought into being through embodied and emotional practices. Building upon and extending these notions of the nation as represented and embodied, the paper argues that the nation also takes shape through bodily encounters and joyful as well as painful affections. In what we call 'affective nationalism', the nation emerges in moments of encounter between different bodies and objects through embodying, sharing, enjoying or disliking what feels national. We combine a Deleuzian reading of affect that discloses the mechanisms of material becomings with feminist scholarship sensitive to how bodies affect and are affected differently by materially produced nationalisms. Based on ethnographic field research in Azerbaijan, which we present in three vignettes, we untangle the affective becoming of national bodies, objects and places during a publicly staged ceremony of the collective remembrance of martyr and the celebration of a national holiday within the realm of a family. The paper makes two contributions to researching affective nationalism. First, it enquires into how people identify with Azerbaijan through their capacities to affect and to be affected by what feels national and, second, it explores how affective nationalism can be captured through vignettes of affective writing.

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“…Boyd (2014) Michelle's discussion of how her and Kayden were 'smiling and dancing' relates to how dancing is 'emotionally charged' (Jones, 2005, p. 814). Interestingly, despite the embodied, emotional dimensions of dance experienced by Michelle whilst the song was playing, Michelle notes how herself and Kayden stopped dancing when the presenter started talking, reflecting how affect is not only continuously emerging, but also fleeting (Müller, 2015). Further, in the first author's listener diary she reports 'swaying' and 'stomping' along to a song that she had 10 been waiting to be played.…”

Section: Listening Bodiesmentioning

confidence: 99%