Afterword: Mind, Imagination, Affect

Abstract

The eight essays in ‘Mind, Imagination, Affect’ address topoi, phenomena and historical junctures as varied as the prostrate form of an individual being put to death in the US via the necropolitical ritual of lethal injection; the prostrate form of Virginia Woolf that allows her to fashion, while prone with illness and ‘as a “deserter” ’ of the ‘army of the upright’,1 a new relationship with words; the affective piety of Margery Kempe’s copious tears; the dense relationalities that narratives about autistic individuals, their family members and animal assistants unfurl; and Antoine Artaud’s autoscopic, aesthetically realised fantasies in which bodies are eviscerated and suspended mid-air.

No sense of place: Geoscientisation and the epistemic erasure of geography

“…At Edinburgh, our undergraduate and PhD students are drawn to critical, qualitative and politically committed scholarship, and, as Cresswell () notes, not many doctoral students want or need to do quantitative work despite Research Council and institutional insistence on the teaching of quantitative methods. While human geography continues to be a site for instrumental and positivist work, one of its unique features—that distinguishes it from other social sciences such as sociology and political science—is that the critical part of the discipline is the largest part (Callard ). The rise of the geohumanities and its important theoretical contributions to our discipline is also an important site of discursive defence.…”