1st Edition

Non-Representational Theory & Health The Health in Life in Space-Time Revealing

By Gavin J. Andrews Copyright 2018
206 Pages
by Routledge

206 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

206 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Non-representational theory is an academic approach that animates the active world; its taking-place. It shows how material, sensory and affective processes combine with conscious thought and agency in the making of everyday life. This book offers an agenda for health geography, providing the first comprehensive overview of what a ‘more-than-representational’ health geography looks like. It... Read more

1 New intellectual energies: the emergence and basis of non-representational theory  2 Rethinking health: from what it means to how it becomes  3 Key conceptualizations in more-than-representational health geographies  4 A mode of health transmission: affective health geographies  5 Characteristic styles and priorities of more-than-representational health geographies  6 Rethinking movement in health geography: from a change of location to movement-space  7 Qualities of movement-spaces in more-than-representational health geographies  8 Research practices and future directions

Biography

Gavin J. Andrews is Professor in the Department of Health, Aging and Society and Associate Member of the School of Geography at McMaster University, Canada.