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Dr Paul Harrison's Outputs (16)

Strange witness: Rachel Whiteread’s art of the immemorial (2022)
Journal Article
Harrison, P. (2022). Strange witness: Rachel Whiteread’s art of the immemorial. Scottish Geographical Journal, 138(3-4), https://doi.org/10.1080/14702541.2022.2137734

The paper offers a reading of the work of the artist Rachel Whiteread. The reception of Whiteread's work has focused on its site-specific, symbolic and memorial nature, the work understood as a series of mediations of and metonymies for hidden social... Read More about Strange witness: Rachel Whiteread’s art of the immemorial.

Taking-Place: Non-Representational Theories and Geography (2016)
Book
Anderson, B., & Harrison, P. (Eds.). (2016). Taking-Place: Non-Representational Theories and Geography. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315611792

Emerging over the past ten years from a set of post-structuralist theoretical lineages, non-representational theories are having a major impact within Human Geography. Non-representational theorisation and research has opened up new sets of problemat... Read More about Taking-Place: Non-Representational Theories and Geography.

After affirmation, or, being a loser. On vitalism, sacrifice, and cinders (2015)
Journal Article
Harrison, P. (2015). After affirmation, or, being a loser. On vitalism, sacrifice, and cinders. Geohumanities, 1(2), 285-306. https://doi.org/10.1080/2373566x.2015.1109469

What could it mean to hesitate before life? To be unwilling or unable to affirm existence? And who or what would suggest such a thing? What type of monster would embrace sadness over joy, despair over hope, failure over success? And yet this is what... Read More about After affirmation, or, being a loser. On vitalism, sacrifice, and cinders.

The broken thread: on being still. (2010)
Book Chapter
Harrison, P. (2010). The broken thread: on being still. In D. Bissell, & G. Fuller (Eds.), Stillness in a Mobile World. Routledge

Testimony and the truth of the other. (2010)
Book Chapter
Harrison, P. (2010). Testimony and the truth of the other. In B. Anderson, & P. Harrison (Eds.), Taking-Place. Non Representational Theories and Geography (161-179). Ashgate Publishing

The Promise of Non-Representational Theories (2010)
Book Chapter
Anderson, B., & Harrison, P. (2010). The Promise of Non-Representational Theories. In B. Anderson, & P. Harrison (Eds.), Taking-place : non-representational theories and geography (1-36). Ashgate Publishing

Emerging over the past ten years from a set of post-structuralist theoretical lineages, non-representational theories are having a major impact within Human Geography. Non-representational theorisation and research has opened up new sets of problemat... Read More about The Promise of Non-Representational Theories.

Remaining Still (2009)
Journal Article
Harrison, P. (2009). Remaining Still. M/C (St Lucia), 12(1),

In the absence of practice (2009)
Journal Article
Harrison, P. (2009). In the absence of practice. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 27(6), 987-1009. https://doi.org/10.1068/d7907

Increasingly the focus of social analysis and explanation is falling upon doings, on actions and practices, insofar as they are understood to be the origin rather than the effect of signification and meaning. This paper offers a sympathetic critique... Read More about In the absence of practice.

Corporeal remains: vulnerability, proximity, and living on after the end of the world. (2008)
Journal Article
Harrison, P. (2008). Corporeal remains: vulnerability, proximity, and living on after the end of the world. Environment and Planning A, 40(2), 423-445. https://doi.org/10.1068/a391

This paper offers a sustained reflection on the nature of corporeal vulnerability as an inherent and noneliminable aspect of corporeal existence. One of the many remarkable things about the recent interest in embodiment, emotion, practice, and perfor... Read More about Corporeal remains: vulnerability, proximity, and living on after the end of the world..

The space between us: Opening remarks on the concept of dwelling (2007)
Journal Article
Harrison, P. (2007). The space between us: Opening remarks on the concept of dwelling. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 25(4), 625-647. https://doi.org/10.1068/d365t

Somewhat surprisingly the concept of dwelling remains largely unconsidered within contemporary geographical thought. Despite signs of a renewed interest in the term it remains all but bereft of a sustained critical appraisal and as a consequence firm... Read More about The space between us: Opening remarks on the concept of dwelling.

'How shall I say it...?' Relating the nonrelational (2007)
Journal Article
Harrison, P. (2007). 'How shall I say it...?' Relating the nonrelational. Environment and Planning A, 39(3), 590-608. https://doi.org/10.1068/a3825

As the ideas of the relational and relationality become part of the everyday conceptual make-up of human geography, in this paper I seek to recall the insistent and incessant importance of the nonrelational. In dialogue with nonrepresentational theor... Read More about 'How shall I say it...?' Relating the nonrelational.

Poststructuralist Theories. (2006)
Book Chapter
Harrison, P. (2006). Poststructuralist Theories. In S. Aitken, & G. Valentine (Eds.), Approaches to Human Geography (122-133). SAGE Publications

The Caesura: remarks on Wittgenstein's interruption of theory, or, why practices elude explanation (2002)
Journal Article
Harrison, P. (2002). The Caesura: remarks on Wittgenstein's interruption of theory, or, why practices elude explanation. Geoforum, 33(4), 487-503. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0016-7185%2802%2900032-5

This paper aims to bring the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein into contact with the growing interest and concerns over the status of practice, performance and non-representational ‘theory’ within human geography. Drawing predominantly on Wittgenstein’s la... Read More about The Caesura: remarks on Wittgenstein's interruption of theory, or, why practices elude explanation.