Discursive life

A Companion to Social Geography

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 362-384

  Philo, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

"After Words" challenge of non representational geographies (NRT) in geography, Nigel Thrift, a British geographer; Difficulty in finding the right words capturing all that one means; Discursive life; Layerings of words, "written" into fabric of countless decisions by different authorities, public and private; NRT inspired human (or post human) geography Thrift and his co workers battling against words; Thrift and others, in tracks of NRT contemplating what it is, that tends to impel human actions; Understanding discursive life unavoidable importance of words, in everyday living, making of worldly human geographies; Words addressed and circulated to people voiced to a handful of people, or just one; Words and geography animated by people doing things and moving in all directions; Words, geographies and clearing some ground

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865992046     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444395211.ch21     Document Type: Chapter

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