• Posthumanism is a broad, understated, yet strongly emerging tradition in Canadian geography. • Five key empirical fields are emerging, each demonstrating how posthumanism can be applied to Canadian empirical contexts. • Future research attention could be paid to a range of issues in Canadian geography and beyond, including the geographies of geographical knowledge production. Posthumanist geography is a broad tradition incorporating a range of intersecting theoretical approaches including assemblage theory, actor-network theory, new materialisms, affect theory, neo-vitalism, political ecology, postphenomenology, and non-representational theory-as well as contributions from a number of theoretically progressive subject fields such as new mobilities, relational thinking, sensory and performance studies, biosocial and biopolitics studies, and science and technology studies. The specificities of and differences between these traditions and fields aside, common to posthumanism is a scepticism of human exceptionalism. Here, the sovereign human subject is decentred, and in doing so, posthumanist work acknowledges the agencies of a full array of human and non-human actors and forces. Recognizing that there are important "geographies to (the discipline of) geography," this paper identifies and reviews some of the key posthumanist interests and themes that have emerged over recent years quietly and organically in Canadian geography, namely posthumanist (i) Indigenous geographies; (ii) animal and natures geographies; (iii) health, wellbeing, and disability geographies; (iv) affective and atmospheric geographies; and (v) non-representational and creative methodologies. The paper concludes with some thoughts on the nature and strengths of Canadian posthumanist geography, and on some possibilities for future advancement.

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Through a performative and speculative style of writing, this chapter develops the ways in which non-representational theories might provide purchase in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic. First, we present two short juxtaposing autoethnographic vignettes of our experiences of lockdown in the South of England, UK during the COVID-19 pandemic. Next, we offer some theoretical suggestions, guiding the reader through an 'ABC' of non-representational concepts including absent presence; affect; atmospheres; bodily knowledges; and corporeographies, before inviting them to make their own connections and think through their own experiences. The intention here is to provoke speculation, to animate in our reader new ways of making sense of their relational, non-representational experiences of the pandemic. In this way, the chapter performs some of the tenets of nonrepresentational thinking and doing. We conclude by speculating ourselves on the ways that the pandemic has re-figured and re-constituted our own bodily boundaries and knowledges; affective and felt experiences in public spaces; and everyday encounters and routines. Fig. 1 BBC News Alert (author's iPhone screenshot) I'm sitting at my desk, trying to write. Everyone is working at home and the house feels full, noisy and overwhelming. I'm not used to this proximity with my family's working lives. There's an atmosphere of stress and anxiety. Suddenly, my phone screen lights up, a notification from BBC News: 'The world is shutting down'. A feeling of vertigo, of overwhelm. I feel surrounded and consumed by COVID and its effects: death tolls, news cycles, Twitter hot takes. It's suffocating.

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