non representational theory

Question 1

The question is ‘Non-representational theories provide novel ways of theorising the lived experience of differences.’ Critically evaluate this statement in the context of race or sexuality to critically evaluate the statement

Answer 1

Talk about ethnography

Question 2

Whether you are doing it in relation to race or sexuality how do you start the essay?

Answer 2

A discussion of what is nonrepresentational theory

Question 3

What does nonrepresentational theory relate to

Answer 3

The cultural turn

Question 4

Nonrepresentational theory is both a what and practice

Answer 4

Method

Question 5

Give two examples of people who were instrumental in the development of nonrepresentational theory

Answer 5

Thrift and McCormack

Question 6

What is the premise of the present non-representational theory

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That focus on representation and geography create deadening effect in the dynamic world

Question 7

What does Lorimer 2005 say about nonrepresentational geography

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It is better to describe it is more than representational

Question 8

What does Simpson say about nonrepresentational theory

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That it is better to understand nonrepresentational theory as a way of thinking rather than a specific theory

Question 9

What theory of Heidegger does it build on

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Phenomenology

Question 10

By examining phenomenology what does nonrepresentational theory look at

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Everyday life, performativity and practices as well as experience and process

Question 11

What two things has representational geography often been involved with?

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discourses and ideology =

Question 12

What, if you take a non representational approach, was the cultural turn built excessively on?

Answer 12

systems of representation

Question 13

Who talks about positionally?

Answer 13

Rose 1997

Question 14

If you go down the sex and gender route , what three paragraphs?

Answer 14

Sexuality
Love
Contestation

Question 15

Who argues that spaces organised to facilitate the reproduction of unequal heteronormative relationships ?

Answer 15

Valentie 1993

Question 16

Even if you accept the argument of Valentine 1993, then what can non representational theory do?

Answer 16

Highlight that this space is not fixed, rather it is made in a process

Question 17

Who argues that nonrepresentational theory can integrate well into feminist conceptions of the body?

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Colls 2011

Question 18

What does non representation theory suggest that we need to understand space as

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As constantly unfolding and seen through people’s experience of it

Question 19

What to people argue thatgeographical knowledge has historically been, and to a certain extent still remains, a heterosexual site of knowledge production?

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Binne 1997 and Oswin 2008

Question 20

Understanding scale as constantly unfolding and as a process allows geographers to understand what?

Answer 20

The affective aspects of how people see and feel space

Question 21

Who talks about love’s oxymoronic structure?

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Berlant

Question 22

Who says that love is a patriarchal affect?

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Firestone 1972

Question 23

In regard to love, what can NRT allow us to do ?

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• See how people understand the institutions of love, as well as new methods of obtaining love such as tinder.

Question 24

What is Spivak’s big thing?

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Epistemic violence ; produced by a representation of people in discourse

Question 25

What can you argue about epistemic violence ?

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That NRT does not do enough to counter it

Question 26

Why does NRT not do enough to counter Epistemic violence?

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because it does not give enough attention to power and discourse

Question 27

What does Kitchin and Hubbard 1999 say about social geography?

Answer 27

It seems that many social and cultural geographers are happy to survey the exclusionary landscape, but rarely do much to change that landscape”

Question 28

What does Ingold 1995 say about how representational approaches have dealt with the world?

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They have taken the life out of it and reduced its dynamic reality

Question 29

Which aspects of life does non-representational theory concern itself with?

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The seemingly insignificant, the fleeting encounters

Question 30

Rather than individual, and interested in subjects, what is NRT interested in?

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Processes of subjectification, necessarily pre-individual

Question 31

What is the reference of thrift 1997

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The mundane and the fleeting encounter

Question 32

Who reminds us that we are still interested in representation, against who?

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Rather than what Thrift 1997 over-exuberantly argued, Dewsbury et al 2002 argues that we are still interested in representation (Lorimer 2005)

Question 33

What is the Anderson 2010 reference?

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Anderson and Harrison 2010

Question 34

For Anderson and Harrison 2010, what is non-representational theory working against?

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Constructivist accounts, for they deal implicitly with symbols of meaning within a society, reflecting the values of a time. Constructivism takes action out of the bodies, and puts it into the knowledge transmitted.

Question 35

How subjects know the world….

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…without knowing it

Question 36

How does this relate to the material?

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According to Anderson and Harrison 2010, NRT is inherently materialistic looking at images and words

Question 37

What are the two feminist engagements with non-representational theory?

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1) Jacob and Nash 2003

2) Colls 2011

Question 38

Which, out of Jacob and Nash 2003, and Colls 2011 is against representational theory?

Answer 38

Jacob and Nash 2003

Question 39

What is a further critique that can be made of non-representational theory?

Answer 39

A historic

Question 40

For Jacob and Nash, 2003, what must feminism inherently do?

Answer 40

Look to the policies of representation

Question 41

What do Jacob and Nash, 2003, say about the body?

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In attempting to reduce the stress on pregiven categories, NRT risks reproducing the unmarked, disembodied but implicitly masculine subject

Question 42

What is the argument of Colls 2011

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That it is problematic that NRT has not explicitly engaged with the geography of feminism, but that feminists cannot abandon NRT

Question 43

For Colls 2011, what about post-structuralism needs to be held to account?

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The gender blindness.

Question 44

How does Ingold 2000 explore the relationship between non-representational theory and constructionism?

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Certain words and phrases cannot be seen only to stand for cultural meanings, rather they are in constant enactment and enactment of which the symbolic is only a part

Question 45

What does Harrison 2000 argue?

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That, under NRT, acts do not have to cross a threshold of significance in order to gain attention

Question 46

Who says that it is better to think of non-representational theory as more than representational theory?

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Lorimer 2005

Question 47

Rather than as singular, what do Anderson and Harrison (2010 - same people who argue that it is the antithesis o social constructivism) argue about NRT?

Answer 47

That it cannot be viewed as singular, rather as dislocated and plural.

Question 48

As well as Anderson and Harrison 2010, who else sees NRT plurally?

Answer 48

Anderson 2009