Non-Representational Theory & Health: The Health in Life in Space-Time Revealing

ISBN-13: 9781472483102 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 192 str.

Gavin J. Andrews

Opis

How do the core facets of non-representational theory translate into health contexts and what might a more-than-representational health geography look like? Drawing on the principles, approaches and style of non-representational theory, Gavin J. Andrews sets out a new agenda for health geography, offering a fundamental consideration of how health actually locates and plays out in the taking place, the frontier, of life. Specific health-related activity (from fitness to health harming) everyday life and wellbeing, and the character and experience of health care are careful considered with emphasis on the nature and importance of rhythm, momentum, vitality, infectiousness, imminence and encounter of and in places. It is argued that movement is key: in how people live their lives, in how governments and institutions get things done, in how bioscience and biopolitics plays out, how health messages are diffused, how health knowledge gets translated, how health workplaces and carespaces are made and experienced, how the public unites and protests on health matters, and how mistakes occur in clinical settings. In summary, how things happen in health that appear more than the sum of their parts.

Spis treści

1 New intellectual energies: the emergence and basis of non-representational theory  2 Rethinking health: from what it means to how it becomes  3 Key conceptualizations in more-than-representational health geographies  4 A mode of health transmission: affective health geographies  5 Characteristic styles and priorities of more-than-representational health geographies  6 Rethinking movement in health geography: from a change of location to movement-space  7 Qualities of movement-spaces in more-than-representational health geographies  8 Research practices and future directions

O autorze

Gavin J. Andrews is Professor in the Department of Health, Aging and Society and Associate Member of the School of Geography at McMaster University, Canada.