More-than-representational approaches to the life-course

Barron, Amy

doi:10.1080/14649365.2019.1610486

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“…I want to reveal the experiences behind the object (Stewart, 2005, p. 133), transform 'the mental into the material within the context of tourism' (Noy, 2008) as the whole process of knitting these mittens has brought more possibilities for thinking and understandingboth of myself and of souvenirs (2008, p. 175;Stewart, 2005;Thrift, 2005). By giving Emily something that she can use when she travels here to Lapland, by telling the story behind the mittens and by sharing the embodied experiences I had with them, I can only hope that the mittens can create similar affects in her as they have done for me (see Barbour & Hitchmough, 2014;Barron, 2019;Stewart, 2005;Thrift, 2008).…”

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“…As the mittens share their stories with others, they keep creating new affects in our daily lives (see Barron, 2019). The mittens have opened up a discussion about the role of embodied experiences in craft tourism, the stories behind the hand-made souvenirs and the care embedded in material objects.…”

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“…Thrift has encouraged us to look beyond the representation of hand-made souvenirs and their meanings and to dig deeper into the materiality and seek the multidimensional attachments of handicrafts. Non-representational theory or, perhaps more correctly, more-than-representational theory seeks to better cope with our multisensory worlds (see Barron, 2019;Lorimer, 2005, p. 83), stressing the importance of the affective capacities of our bodies. Drawing inspiration from discussions on affect, moods, passions and intensities (Anderson, 2006), we hope to gain further understanding of why and how souvenirs become much more than just objects and, in this case, clothing that keeps us warm.…”

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“…We wonder what emotions and affect produced through craft tourism and handicraftswhich are inherently embedded in the idea of embodied encounters and touchingmight do, and how care as an affect is present in different situations. Therefore, we understand affect here both as concrete, embodied encounter and as abstract intensity of being and feeling ( Barron, 2019;Thrift, 2008, pp. 175-176;Vannini, 2015a, p. 8; see also d 'Hauteserre, 2015 ).…”

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Affective entanglements with travelling mittens

Kugapi

Höckert

2020

Tourism Geographies

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Researchers have, most commonly, been studying souvenirs from two different streams: one that discusses the impact of souvenirs on the producers and another that focuses more on tourists as consumers of the souvenirs. Recently, the studies have also concentrated on the stories given with souvenirs, connectiveness to places and on the effectiveness of their memorability. However, research about the embodied experiences of and, most importantly, with souvenirs has been overlooked even in craft tourism, which can be seen fundamentally different way of experiencing tourism destinations as it invites people to involve the body in the actions, touch and move together. Therefore, in order to grasp the embodied encounters with souvenirs, we use an autoethnographic narrative of self-knitted green and white mittens to gain understanding about our experiences with the non-human actors, to research how emotions and affect are produced through craft tourism and the souvenirs, and how care as an affect is present in different situations and. By drawing inspiration from previous discussions on relational ethics, non-representational theory and affect in Tourism Studies, the narrative of the mittens explores the intensive entanglements in meanings and matter between handicrafts, places and humans. There, the ability to care is not limited to the social lives of humans. The self-made souvenirs emerge in unpredictable ways around everyday actions and create multiple affects, with movement, vitality and encounters on their own, becoming part of a lifelong journey filled with memories of certain moments. Furthermore, our findings encourage future tourism research to go beyond representation when exploring the intensive entanglements between people, souvenirs and places.

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Kugapi

Höckert

2020

Tourism Geographies

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“…3 Geographers are beginning to understand older age less as a stable category, and more as a relational and embodied process. 4 The past five years have seen calls for the incorporation of more-than-representational and affective approaches into the geographic study of older age to advance research on ageing and it is from these calls that this paper takes its cue. More-than-representational theories are necessary for work on older age because there is a tendency in everyday life, in policies geared toward older people, and in academic literature to speak of older people as though easy to identify.…”

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The taking place of older age

Barron

2021

cultural geographies

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Representations of older age are often reductive in western societies, portrayed as a distinct period of life characterised by social disengagement and physiological decline. Through rich ethnographic accounts developed with older people from Greater Manchester UK, this paper is concerned with how the category of older age is made through representations, and the different ways people encounter and relate to it. In doing so, it disrupts reductive representations by considering how older age is lived. I respond to calls for the incorporation of more-than-representational and affective approaches into the geographic study of older age to advance research on ageing and highlight affect as a useful concept for thinking through difference. The paper is concerned with how older people are represented, with how representations differentially affect and are affected by older individuals, and with how representations of older age are performed and folded into lived accounts. More-than-representational theories offer an understanding of older age that is not pre-given or free-standing, but as something which can emerge, gather and disperse in relation with materialities as well as diffuse atmospheres, affects and emotional resonances.

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Talking methods, talking about methods: Invoking the transformative potential of social methods through animals, objects and how‐to instructions

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Hall

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Geography and Environment

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This paper focuses on "talking" methods, noting their wide application across the social sciences, and identifies potential spaces for innovation in this field.Drawing on interview material from the Methods for Change project, we argue that researching methods requires creative approaches to talk. With research methods as our focus, we draw on data collected from online interviews with 36 academics, which aimed to explore the transformative potential of social science research methods. We make three contributions. First, we consider challenges and potentials for talking about methods and communicating the transformative potential of social science methods to diverse audiences. Second, we elaborate on the detail of doing talking methods, identifying potential spaces for innovation. Third, we suggest there is value in supplementing interviews with creative techniques when talking with and about method. We highlight three such techniques used in our project as a means of eliciting conversation about the transformative potential of methods: how-to instructions; object interviewing; and methods as animals. The conceptual underpinnings, practical applications and obstacles encountered with each technique are discussed, including our own reflections on creative interviewing in a context where face-to-face research was restricted. In doing so, we respond to and advance recent debates about the need to talk more about the doing of talking methods. We argue that academics need to articulate why methods matter in creating change to global challenges, and that creative techniques can play a pivotal role.

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More-than-representational approaches to the life-course

Cited by 33 publications

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Affective entanglements with travelling mittens

Affective entanglements with travelling mittens

The taking place of older age

Talking methods, talking about methods: Invoking the transformative potential of social methods through animals, objects and how‐to instructions

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