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Non-Representational Theory

Non-Representational Theory presents a distinctive approach to the politics of

everyday life. Ranging across a variety of the spaces in which politics and the political

unfold, it questions what is meant by perception, representation and practice, with

the aim of valuing the fugitive practices that exist on the margins of the known.

This book questions the orientation of the social sciences and humanities and makes

essential reading for researchers and postgraduates. It revolves around three key

functions:

•

it introduces the rather dispersed discussion of non-representational theory to

a wider audience,

•

it provides the basis for an experimental rather than a representational approach

to the social sciences and humanities,

•

it begins the task of constructing a different kind of political genre.

Nigel Thrift brings together further writings from a body of work that has come

to be known as non-representational theory. Thrift’s noteworthy book makes a

signiﬁcant contribution to the literature in this area and provides a groundbreaking

and comprehensive introduction to this key topic making Non-Representational

Theory an incredibly useful text for students of social theory, sociology, geography,

anthropology and cultural studies.

Nigel Thrift , Professor at the University of Warwick, is also a Visiting Professor

at the University of Oxford and an Emeritus Professor at the University of Bristol.

He has authored, co-authored and co-edited more than 35 books and over 200

journal articles. His research includes work on international ﬁnance, new forms of

capitalism, cities, social and cultural theory and the history of time

International Library of Sociology

Founded by Karl Mannheim

Editor: John Urry

Lancaster University

Recent publications in this series include:

Risk and Technological Culture

Towards a sociology of virulence

Joost Van Loon

Visual Worlds

John Hall, Blake Stimson

and Lisa Tamiris Becker

Reconnecting Culture, Technology

and Nature

Mike Michael

Time, Innovation and Mobilities

Travel in technological cultures

Peter Frank Peters

Advertising Myths

The strange half lives of images and

commodities

Anne M. Cronin

Complexity and Social Movements

Multitudes acting at the edge of chaos

Ian Welsh and Graeme Chesters

Qualitative Complexity

Ecology, cognitive processes and the

re-emergence of structures in

post-humanist social theory

Chris Jenks and John Smith

Adorno on Popular Culture

Robert R Witkin

Consuming the Caribbean

From Arwaks to Zombies

Mimi Sheller

Theories of the Information Society

3rd Edition

Frank Webster

Crime and Punishment in

Contemporary Culture

Claire Valier

Mediating Nature

Nils Lindahl Elliot

Between Sex and Power

Family in the world, 1900–2000

Goran Therborn

Haunting the Knowledge Economy

Jane Kenway, Elizabeth Bullen,

Johannah Fahey and Simon Robb

States of Knowledge

The co-production of social science

and social order

Shelia Jasanoff

Global Nomads

Techno and new age as transnational

countercultures in Ibiza and Goa

Anthony D’Andrea

After Method

Mess in social science research

John Law

The Cinematic Tourist

Explorations in globalization, culture

and resistance

Rodanthi Tzanelli

Brands

Logos of the global economy

Celia Lury

Non-Representational Theory

Space | politics | affect

Nigel Thrift

The Culture of Exception

Sociology facing the camp

Bulent Diken and Carsten Bagge Lausten

Non-Representational

Theory

Space | politics | affect

Nigel Thrift

First published 2008

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ISBN 0-203-94656-1 Master e-book ISBN

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