Non-Representational Theory: Space, Politics, Affect

by Thrift; Nigel

• ISBN13: 9780415393201
• ISBN10: 0415393205
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-09-10
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Written by a pioneer of this theoretical approach, this astonishing book promises to question the whole direction of social sciences methodology and makes essential reading for social sciences and humanities researchers and postgraduates. It revolves around three key functions: it introduces the rather dispersed discussion of non-representational theory to a wider audience it questions the whole direction of social sciences, methodologically, epistemologically and ontologically it provides more productive approaches to the social sciences. A groundbreaking and comprehensive introduction to this key topic, Thrift?s outstanding work brings together for the first time a body of work that has come to be known as non-representational theory. Although well-known in the social sciences, these theories have never before been assembled in one volume. Thrift?s noteworthy book therefore, makes a significant contribution to the literature in this area.

Author Biography

Nigel Thrift, Professor at the University of Warwick

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. ix
Life, but not as we know it	p. 1
	p. 27
Re-inventing invention: new tendencies in capitalist commodification	p. 29
Still life in nearly present time: the object of nature	p. 56
Driving in the city	p. 75
Movement-space: the changing domain of thinking resulting from the development of new kinds of spatial awareness	p. 89
	p. 107
Afterwords	p. 109
	p. 151
From born to made: technology, biology, and space	p. 153
Spatialities of feeling	p. 171
But malice aforethought	p. 198
Turbulent passions: towards an understanding of the affective spaces of political performance	p. 220
Notes	p. 255
Bibliography	p. 279
Index	p. 314
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