Anderson, Ben

Cultural geography II: The force of representations - Sage, 2019. - Vol 43, issue 6, 2019 : (1120-1132 p.).

Cultural geography is once again concerned with representations. In this report I focus on how, in the wake of various non-representational theories, recent work stays with what texts, images, words, and other representations do. I argue that this work is animated by a concern with the force of representations: their capacities to affect and effect, to make a difference. Accompanying this orientation to questions of force is a shift in the unit of analysis to ‘representations-in-relation’ and a multiplication of the modes of analysis through which cultural geography is performed, including the emergence of reparative and descriptive modes.


cultural geography,
images,
non-representational theory,
representation,
texts