Writing. Issue 4 (2nd July 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Roberts, Tom
• Is Part Of: Transactions. Volume 44:Issue 4(2019)
• Page Start: 644
• Page End: 646
• Publication Date: 2019-07-02
• Subjects: materiality -- non‐representational theory -- post‐humanism -- writing; Geography -- Periodicals; 910.6041
• DOI: 10.1111/tran.12323
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0020-2754

Abstract

Abstract : This intervention poses a question about the practice of writing in contemporary geographical research, namely, in what ways might post‐humanist thinking reconfigure geography's relationship with writing? I explore the idea that academic writing remains thoroughly entangled with the excessive force of nonhuman matters. My intervention is inspired by the work of Brian Massumi and Erin Manning and their call to approach writing as a process of research creation, one that cannot be reduced to the communication of information generated by other means. Post‐humanist thinking thus requires not only that we situate writing in the world, but that we, as practitioners of human geography, approach our relationship with words as a post‐human practice in its own right.