ABSTRACT
The focus of this chapter is to provide the development of living theory for place-space methodologies. It explores the emergence of post-philosophies and post-theories and why they have become important. There is a genealogy of some of the key theoretical and conceptual underpinnings of the book, starting with Donna Haraway's situated knowledge and mutated modest witnessing. Next, it charts the lineages of posthumanism and feminist posthumanism, new materialism and feminist new materialism, agential realism, and affect theory, arguing why they are important and why they need interrogating individually. The book makes a conscious effort to ensure that the theoretical lineages of Black and Indigenous scholars are respected and included in the development of living theory. The end of the chapter collates the living theory of place-space methodologies used in the book, and gives the reader details of why certain elements of living theory were selected for place-space methodologies.
