Taking-Place: Non-Representational Theories and Geography

Taking-Place: Non-Representational Theories and Geography
Author: Ben Anderson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 419
Release: 2016-04-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317046951

Emerging over the past ten years from a set of post-structuralist theoretical lineages, non-representational theories are having a major impact within Human Geography. Non-representational theorisation and research has opened up new sets of problematics around the body, practice and performativity and inspired new ways of doing and writing human geography that aim to engage with the taking-place of everyday life. Drawing together a range of innovative contributions from leading writers, this is the first book to provide an extensive and in-depth overview of non-representational theories and human geography. The work addresses the core themes of this still-developing field, demonstrates the implications of non-representational theories for many aspects of human geographic thought and practice, and highlights areas of emergent critical debate. The collection is structured around four thematic sections - Life, Representation, Ethics and Politics - which explore the varied relations between non-representational theories and contemporary human geography.

Taking Place

Taking Place
Author: John David Rhodes
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 408
Release:
Genre:
ISBN: 1452932719

Explores how moving images both produce and are predicated on place

Violence Taking Place

Violence Taking Place
Author: Andrew Herscher
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2010-03-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 0804769354

The first history ever of violence against architecture as political violence, this book examines the case of the former Yugoslavia and the ways in which architecture is a site where power, agency, and ethnicity are constituted.

Taking place

Taking place
Author: Erin Silver
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 186
Release: 2023-02-07
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1526162377

Taking place examines feminist and queer alternative art spaces across Canada and the United States from the late-1960s to the present. It looks at how queer and feminist artists working in the present day engage with, respond to and challenge the institutions they have inherited. Through a series of regional case studies, the book interrogates different understandings of ‘alternative’ space and the possibilities the term affords for queer and feminist artistic imaginaries.

Violence Taking Place

Violence Taking Place
Author: Andrew Herscher
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 315
Release: 2010-03-25
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0804776229

While the construction of architecture has a place in architectural discourse, its destruction, generally seen as incompatible with the very idea of "culture," has been neglected in theoretical and historical discussion. Responding to this neglect, Herscher examines the case of the former Yugoslavia and in particular, Kosovo, where targeting architecture has been a prominent dimension of political violence. Rather than interpreting violence against architecture as a mere representation of "deeper" social, political, or ideological dynamics, Herscher reveals it to be a form of cultural production, irreducible to its contexts and formative of the identities and agencies that seemingly bear on it as causes. Focusing on the particular sites where violence is inflicted and where its subjects and objects are articulated, the book traces the intersection of violence and architecture from socialist modernization, through ethnic and nationalist conflict, to postwar reconstruction.

Indigenous Futures and Learnings Taking Place

Indigenous Futures and Learnings Taking Place
Author: Ligia (Licho) López López
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2020-12-09
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1000292118

Singularizing progressive time binds pasts, presents, and futures to cause-effect chains overdetermining existence in education and social life more broadly. Indigenous Futures and Learnings Taking Place disrupts the common sense of "futures" in education or "knowledge for the future" by examining the multiplicity of possible destinies in coexistent experiences of living and learning. Taking place is the intention this book has to embody and world multiplicity across the landscapes that sustain life. The book contends that Indigenous perspectives open spaces for new forms of sociality and relationships with knowledge, time, and landscapes. Through Goanna walking and caring for Country; conjuring encounters between forests, humans, and the more-than-human; dreams, dream literacies, and planes of existence; the spirit realm taking place; ancestral luchas; Musquem hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ Land pedagogies; and resoluteness and gratitude for atunhetsla/the spirit within, the chapters in the collection become politicocultural and (hi)storical statements challenging the singular order of the future towards multiple encounters of all that is to come. In doing so, Indigenous Futures and Learnings Taking Place offers various points of departure to (hi)story educational futures more responsive to the multiplicities of lives in what has not yet become. The contributors in this volume are Indigenous women, women of Indigenous backgrounds, Black, Red, and Brown women, and women whose scholarship is committed to Indigenous matters across spaces and times. Their work in the chapters often defies prescriptions of academic conventions, and at times occupies them to enunciate ontologies of the not yet. As people historically fabricated "women," their scholarly production critically intervenes on time to break teleological education that births patriarchal-ized and master-ized forms of living. What emerges are presences that undiscipline education and educationalized social life breaking futures out of time. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of Indigenous studies, future studies, post-colonial studies in education, settler colonialism and coloniality, diversity and multiculturalism in education, and international comparative education.

Taking-Place: Non-Representational Theories and Geography

Taking-Place: Non-Representational Theories and Geography
Author: Ben Anderson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 393
Release: 2016-04-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 131704696X

Emerging over the past ten years from a set of post-structuralist theoretical lineages, non-representational theories are having a major impact within Human Geography. Non-representational theorisation and research has opened up new sets of problematics around the body, practice and performativity and inspired new ways of doing and writing human geography that aim to engage with the taking-place of everyday life. Drawing together a range of innovative contributions from leading writers, this is the first book to provide an extensive and in-depth overview of non-representational theories and human geography. The work addresses the core themes of this still-developing field, demonstrates the implications of non-representational theories for many aspects of human geographic thought and practice, and highlights areas of emergent critical debate. The collection is structured around four thematic sections - Life, Representation, Ethics and Politics - which explore the varied relations between non-representational theories and contemporary human geography.

Calling Humanity: A Cosmic event is taking place

Calling Humanity: A Cosmic event is taking place
Author: José Trigueirinho
Publisher: Irdin Editora
Total Pages: 156
Release: 2017-12-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 8594861907

A call comes from distant constellations and the planet’s Hierarchies. Humans are to become one with their rightful cosmic heritage. The Earth is taking a unique step in its evolution. Humanity is now undergoing unimaginable changes. In Calling Humanity we can learn about: planetary centers new human etheric centers choices that make a difference for humanity's future.

Freedom Taking Place: War, Women and Culture at the Intersection of Ukraine, Poland, and Belarus

Freedom Taking Place: War, Women and Culture at the Intersection of Ukraine, Poland, and Belarus
Author: Jessica Zychowicz
Publisher: Vernon Press
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2023-05-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1648896901

Freedom as a concept shifts with different forms of expression. As the authors of this volume convey in their focus on 'freedom of expression', the idea of 'freedom' in the twenty-first century does not stand apart as a purely physical location marked by national borders. In the Internet Age information is increasingly co-determinate of physical freedom. The information-dense space of the protests of 2021, and beyond, provide soil for the intellectuals writing in this volume to reflect on women’s agency in struggles for human rights. Where historical discourse on “The Woman Question” once conflicted with “feminism” as a perceived importation from the West, this conflict also produced productive tensions that have provided ongoing sites for research. When closely studied, these contexts can deepen global concepts of democracy and justice, providing not only pathways for acts of solidarity and mutual assistance, but intellectual depth and breadth for the future 'ways of knowing', and thus ways of creating, more equitable post-conflict power systems and citizenship amid times of revolution and war. Coming from multiple generations, gender identities, nationalities, and language; the authors in this volume represent the most forward-thinking voices and figures working on gender in the region today.