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Old News: Representation and Academic Novelty

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  • Noel Castree

    (School of Geography, Manchester University, Manchester, England, M13 9PL)

  • Thomas MacMillan

    (Food Ethics Council, Brighton, BN1 3PB, England)

Abstract

The new outstrips the old—but only sometimes. This short paper identifies four forms of ‘novelty’ in Anglophone human geography. In taking the case of a nascent ‘nonrepresentational geography’ some concerns are raised about the seeming ennui with representation as a research issue and as a practical and political resource. Far from insisting that ‘old’ intellectual fashions are better than new ones, we simply caution against travelling forward minus some important baggage. By way of seven theses, we finesse critical geography's engagement with representation and argue that any nonrepresentational ‘alternative’ should not be seen as jettisoning the substantial power of representational acts.

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  • Noel Castree & Thomas MacMillan, 2004. "Old News: Representation and Academic Novelty," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 36(3), pages 469-480, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envira:v:36:y:2004:i:3:p:469-480
    DOI: 10.1068/a3656
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    1. Paul Harrison, 2007. "“How Shall I Say it … ?†Relating the Nonrelational," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 39(3), pages 590-608, March.
    2. Deborah P Dixon & John Paul Jones III, 2004. "Guest Editorial," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 36(3), pages 381-390, March.
    3. Paul M. Torrens, 2024. "Ten Traps for Non-Representational Theory in Human Geography," Geographies, MDPI, vol. 4(2), pages 1-34, April.

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