General

Question 1

Theories are an organized set of claims and judgements about how the world works, both implicit and explicit.
Happens when common starting points can no longer be taken for granted

Answer 1

Collini 2012

Question 2

Cannot avoid theory, need to constantly employ theoretical tools.
Notion of dominant paradigms does not neglect the less dominant features of the time

Answer 2

Hubbard et al. 2002

Question 3

Theories can be known as dominant paradigms

Answer 3

Kuhn 1970

Question 4

Ways of knowing drive research but also the creative potential as a discipline.
At broadest = set of statements and psopositions used to explain or interpret

Answer 4

Barnett 2009

Question 5

Different claims forms a set to perform a theory in the singular

Answer 5

Gregory et al. 2009

Question 6

Ways of being

Answer 6

Ontology

Question 7

Ontology and discourse
E.g. power and domination - W devel strategy is seen as the ontological basis. Discourse may produce what is ontologically created.
Using term discourse also implies an ontology as presume that there are discourses - sometimes in discinction from something else e.g. discourse and practice, or discourse and the material world

Answer 7

Bhabha 1983

Question 8

Epistemology - ways of knowing. Theories, philosophies, constantly: refined, challenges, transformed

Answer 8

Aitken and Valentine 2006

Question 9

All theories/knowledges are situated - not neutral or objective. Constructed partial, situated, positioned knowledge: fiction and theory situated
Limitation of feminism - it is theoretically based, so thus relies on a particular way of knowing the world produced from theoretical understanding

Answer 9

Haraway 1990

Question 10

Thus is a multitude of theories - theoretical frameworks never fixed
E.g. diff theoretical understandings of how the finan crisis began

Answer 10

Casatree et al. 2005

Question 11

Theories akin to a map - practical means for understanding, engaging with world once understand theory itself. Provides us with routes and way of understanding what’s around

Answer 11

David Harvey 1960

Question 12

Concepts provide direction for thinking - moving beyond what we know

Answer 12

Colebrook 2002

Question 13

Concept of state of emergency - normal space transforms. what are the consequences of this?
E.g. pol authority - who can enter/exist space in event of emergence
ANT can help us understand this trnasformation through relations and networks

Answer 13

Anderson

Question 14

Concept of uneven devel - why areas in relation to UBS decline and then suddenly ^ in value

Answer 14

Smith 1979

Question 15

As a theoretical framework, fem grounded in ontology & epistemology dedicated to:
Producing knowledge that promotes social change

Answer 15

Blunt and Wills 2000

Question 16

Multiple competing models and theories of doing things, all with aim of being consequential. Consensus among geogs at any one time that there is one best way of doing things has seldom been stable

Answer 16

Hubbard et al. 2002

Question 17

Deconstructing binaries of human geog.

Answer 17

Cloke and Johnstone 2004

Question 18

To survive in world, we simplify it - using categs for self-identif - social constructions.
Catego therefore aren’t just ‘normal’ within society, but necessary for it.
Without simplifications, societies couldn’t exist e.g. who qualifies for subsidized uni ed?
Categ freq using in creating collective & personal identitie s- binaries - us and them

Answer 18

Jenkins 2000

Question 19

Binary creating difference - much geopol thinking involves promoting ‘positive images of ‘us’ and negatives ones of ‘them’ - ‘nothing can be one thing and its opposite at the same time’

Answer 19

Olsson 1980

Question 20

We need to escape tyranny of dualisms

Answer 20

Pile 1994

Question 21

Third terms

Answer 21

Bhabha 1990

Question 22

Third space combines the material and the symbolic to elude the politics of polarized binaries. Enables emergence of radical new alligiances - old structures of auth challenged. New emancipatory practices - recogs incorporation of excluded others

Answer 22

Doel 1999

Question 23

Critique of fem: theoretical understaning of world informed by comb of local experiences and broad generalisations. Conflict with emancip goals of fem theory to free silenced voices

Answer 23

Raghuram and Marge 2008

Question 24

In order to radically restructure the ‘right to theorize’, fem theory advocates use of action-oriented, dialogic methodologies to provide resistance X the existing, dominating paradigms.
Dislodge the hierarchic knowlege presented by researchers

Answer 24

Nagar 2012

Question 25

Constructions of societal identities relates to theory of performativity

Answer 25

Butler 1990

Question 26

Social norms legitimized through repetition - constructed phenomena. The identities have no ontological foundations

Answer 26

Huey and Berndt 208

Question 27

Discourses are entangled in networks of power

Answer 27

Gregson and Rose 1999

Question 28

Superiority and inferiority: knowledge legitimizes reps and becomes the organizing system of power

Answer 28

Hall 1992