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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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