Non-Representational Theory

From Geography

The non-representational theory is a theory that is developed mostly through the work of Nigel Thrift, and a colleague of Thrift namely J.D. Dewsbury. It is a theory used in Human Geography which focuses on the idea that geographies to life and thought are practiced, it seeks to immerse itself in everyday practice. Thrift came up with the non-representational theory because most of the human geographical thinking was dominated by the mode of representational thinking, especially in cultural geography. Thrift noticed that much of the work of geographers was based on epistemological models which created gaps between theory and practice and thought and action. Instead non-representational geographers are concerned with the practices of everyday life. Non-representational thinking tends towards an academic style which is rather concerned with describing and present, instead of diagnosing and represent. (Cadman 2009, p. 1-6)

References:

Cadman, L. (2009). Nonrepresentational Theory/Nonrepresentational Geographies. Elsevier inc., Glasgow.

Published by Ivar le Loux & Jorg Schröder