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Theories of affectivity, actor-networks and non-representation have challenged the theory and practice of the social sciences. By emphasising the cofabrication of knowledge and transhuman agency, such radical perspectives have implicitly questioned conventional research methodologies and the representation of academic work.

In this issue we are seeking original and critical analysis of methodological techniques in contemporary geography and politics, as well as submissions based on empirical research. The issue will challenge the dualisms of academia and art, researcher and researched, and representation and interpretation. We strongly encourage contributors to engage with alternative forms of representation such as video, digital choreography, photography and art as well as experimenting with text, style and writing.

This issue will challenge the anxiety of academic publications to ensure 'clarity of writing', questioning the apparent objectivity of scholarly analysis. Submissions will deliberately and creatively disrupt this perception by conveying argument and meaning through alternative registers, including the corporeal, embodied, kinaesthetic or poetic.

The editors highly recommend the references below as examples of alternative, radical approaches to research methdology:
McCormack D. (2002) A paper with an interest in rhythm Geoforum 33: 469–485
McCormack D. (2003) An event of geographical ethics in spaces of affect, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 28: 488-507
Rubidge S. (2006) Sensuous Geographics and Fugitive Moments; The Interface of Body and Technology in Broadhurst and Machon (eds.) Performance and Technology: Practices of Virtual Embodiment and Interactivity. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke
Kindon S
. (2003) Participatory video in geographic research: a feminist practice of looking? Area 35(2): 142–153
Whatmore S. (2003) Generating materials in Pryke, M. Rose, G. & Whatmore, S.(eds.) Using Social Theory: Thinking through Research. The Open University & Sage, London
Wylie J. (2005) A single day's walking: narrating self and landscape on the South West Coast Path. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 30(2): 234–247.
Wacquant L. (2004) Body & Soul: Notebooks of an Apprentice Boxer. Oxford University Press
Spinney J. (2006) A place of sense: a kinaesthetic ethnography of cyclists on Mont Ventoux Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 24: 709-732
Rose G. (2007) Visual Methodologies: An Introduction to the Interpretation of Visual Materials (2nd Ed) Sage, London
Ó Tuathail G. (2003) ‘Just out looking for a fight’: American affect and the invasion of Iraq. Antipode, 35(5): 856-870
Meth P. (2002) Entries and omissions: using solicited diaries in geographical research, Area 35: 206-16
Katz J. (2003) How Emotions Work. University of Chicago Press

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