ABSTRACT

Memoir has proven to be a winning literary form for reflecting on the twists and turns taken by non-representational theory (NRT). In this afterword, the author adopts that same autobiographical mode, using life writing to channel critical remarks on an assortment of methodological matters, approaches and potentials, tendencies, travels, and travails. Non-representational theorists have been resistant to the biographical model, troubled by the biological principle of ontological sovereignty upon which it is dependent. The author focuses on the practice, the teaching, and the writing of non-representational methodologies. The practicing of non-rep in human geography and cognate subject areas can be charted cartographically. Where the atlas of active operations and associated interests might once have been mapped as an islanded academic phenomenon, Non-Representational Methodologies demonstrates the extent to which theory has travelled of late, achieving greater global reach and, in the process, opening out new continents of thought and action.