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Non-Representational Theory & Health

The Health in Life in Space-Time Revealing

Gavin J. Andrews (McMaster University, Canada)

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English
Routledge
30 June 2020
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 outlines the basis of a new ontological understanding of health, and explores the key qualities of ‘movement-space’ that are critical to how health emerges within the assemblages that enable it.

It shows how non-representational events and concerns are key to human happiness and wellbeing, to the experience of health and disease, to activities that add to or detract from health and to health care work, not to mention to the broader initiatives and operation of health institutions and health sciences.

This book bridges the gap between non-representational theory and health research, and provides the groundwork for future developments in the field. It will be of interest to students, researchers and professionals alike working in health, geography and a range of other disciplines.

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Imprint:   Routledge
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 234mm,  Width: 156mm, 
Weight:   453g
ISBN:   9780367592639
ISBN 10:   0367592630
Series:   Geographies of Health Series
Pages:   192
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Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Primary ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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

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.

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