Possible geographies
A Passing Encounter in a Café
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8067965 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Eric Laurier, Chris Philo |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 353-363 |
| Publication date | 2006-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Area (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0004-0894 • E-ISSN: 1475-4762 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1475-4762.2006.00712.x |
| OpenAlex | W1969317734 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 114 |
| References cited | 37 |
The rise of non‐representational theory in human geography has prompted searching questions about how researchers might ‘represent’ what they encounter in their fieldwork. A central problem is that we reach an insurmountable impasse, an aporia, because we cannot share thoughts, meanings, feelings, etc., in a manner faithful to our experience of them or equally that certain spectacular or horrific events and encounters escape their retelling. We argue that this impossibility should not become a warrant for withdrawing from the world, and instead propose that close descriptions can still be offered of particular encounters, attending in the process to the situated, embodied sense‐making work being (unavoidably) undertaken by the peoples involved that makes those encounters what they are. Such work may be threatened by scepticism, because it assumes the possibility of representation being at least partially successful, here and now, and relies on the ‘just‐thisness’ of things. Scholars of social life can, scepticism contained, learn much from taking seriously how any encounter unfolds without transcendental or structural guarantee in the immediacy of the life‐worlds where it is made and re‐made
Aesthetics · Embodied cognition · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Feeling · Immediacy · Impossibility · Political science · Politics · Possible world · Representation (politics · Situated · Skepticism · Sociology · Transcendental number · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Computer Science · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Law · Philosophy
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More‐Than‐Representational Political Geographies
Non-Representational Theory
Performing Research
Speed as an expression and texture of space
Geographies of welcome
Materialized disagreements
Spaces of transmission
‘So, as you can see . . .’
Stadt und Performanz
Introduction
Reassembling third places
Digital timescapes in urban public space
Social practices in a café
We only go as far as bikes go
Encounters and (in)tolerance
Beyond directional care
Mundane welcome
Mapscapes on the Urban Surface
Sticky Waddling
Soccer, Broadcasting, and Narrative
You Were a Lifesaver’
Defrosting the freezer and other acts of quiet resistance
So much for snapshots’
Micro-visual encounters with homelessness in an urban railway station
Convivial reflexivity in the changing city – a tale of hospitality or hostility
Designing Places to Be Alone or Together
The emotional psychologist
The role of ICTs in everyday mobile lives
The intersectional geographies of international students in Ireland
What Sexuality Is This Place? Building a Framework for Evaluating Sexualized Space
Situational places
Inviting the stranger in
Geographies of ageing
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Thickening places
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A sceptical approach to ‘the everyday’
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The geographies of difference in conflating digital and offline spaces of encounter
Spaces of consumption, connection, and community
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The ambivalence of familiarity
I've never told anyone this before”
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Dark tourism and affect
Uttering geographies
Affect and discourse - What's the problem? From affect as excess to affective/discursive practice
Participation by being
The taxidermist's apprentice
My magic cam
Sense and the city
Cultural geography
Telling stories in, through and with Country
Using ‘the body’ as an ‘instrument of research
Affect, practice and contingency
Videographic geographies
Cold shoulders and napkins handed
Thinking with images in non‐representational cities
Political affects in public space
Selling My Queer Soul or Queerying Quantitative Research
Géographies mobiles et divergentes
Looking at and looking back
Ethnomethodology and the Non-representational
A Chance to Catch a Breath
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Mainstream, Inclusionary, and Convivial Places
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Studies in ethnomethodology
Theoretical sociology
Analysing visually available mundane order
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The home over the hill
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The Caesura
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Philosophical investigations
Making connections and thinking through emotions
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Cold shoulders and napkins handed
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Death and Furniture
Performativity in practice
A parcel of muddling muckworms
Ethnoarchaeology and Undefined Investigations
Reflections on Gunnar Olsson's Contribution to the Discourse of Contemporary Human Geography
Afterwords
Foucault's Geography
Making Sense
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Old News
Witnessing Space
Representation is Overrated
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| Unique citing works | 114 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 5,7 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2026 (21) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 110 |