Cultural Geography II: The Force of Representations

Anderson, B.

Abstract

Cultural geography is once again concerned with representations. In this report I focus on how, in the wake of various non-representational theories, recent work stays with what texts, images, words, and other representations do. I argue that this work is animated by a concern with the force of representations: their capacities to affect and effect, to make a difference. Accompanying this orientation to questions of force is a shift in the unit of analysis to ‘representations-in-relation’ and a multiplication of the modes of analysis through which cultural geography is performed, including the emergence of reparative and descriptive modes.

Citation

Anderson, B. (2019). Cultural Geography II: The Force of Representations. Progress in Human Geography, 43(6), 1120-1132. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132518761431

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Online Publication Date: Mar 21, 2018
• Publication Date: Dec 31, 2019
• Deposit Date: Jun 12, 2018
• Publicly Available Date: Jun 13, 2018
• Journal: Progress in Human Geography
• Print ISSN: 0309-1325
• Electronic ISSN: 1477-0288
• Publisher: SAGE Publications
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 43
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 1120-1132
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132518761431
• Keywords: Cultural Geography, Images, Non-Representational Theory, Representation, Texts.
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1329174