Geography Meets Gendlin

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxii

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2. Disciplinary Terrain and Connections

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Non-Representational Interest in Affect

      • Janet Banfield

      Pages 3-23

   3. Geographies of Artistic Practice

      • Janet Banfield

      Pages 25-41

3. Exploring Gendlin’s Ideas through Artistic Practice

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 43-43

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   2. Implying and Occurring

      • Janet Banfield

      Pages 45-61

   3. Explication and Sharp Concepts

      • Janet Banfield

      Pages 63-79

   4. Progressions

      • Janet Banfield

      Pages 81-102

4. Exploring Gendlin’s Methods through Artistic Practice

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 103-103

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   2. Explicating the Implicit

      • Janet Banfield

      Pages 105-123

   3. Critiquing Explicatory Techniques

      • Janet Banfield

      Pages 125-136

   4. Conclusion

      • Janet Banfield

      Pages 137-144

5. Back Matter

   Pages 145-149

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This book makes a timely and engaging contribution to geography’s resurgent interest in art and artistic practice, as well as to growing geographical concerns with embodied or pre-reflective experience. It introduces Eugene Gendlin’s philosophical and methodological work to stimulate geographical thinking and practice, and explores its disciplinary potential through innovative practice-based research into artistic spatial experience. Gendlin’s philosophy and techniques for articulating the pre-reflective are explained and illustrated using artists’ accounts of their practices, both retrospectively and during their practice. The geographical implementation of research methods informed by those techniques is detailed and critiqued. Diverse and potentially contradictory findings, and potentially problematic methodological choices, are discussed, accounted for, and reframed through Gendlin’s ideas. Significant geographical potential within Gendlin’s work—philosophical, conceptual and methodological—is identified and described, and avenues and challenges for further investigation are highlighted. This first step towards a Gendlin-informed geography invites further engagement with his work.  

• Eugene Gendlin
• Geography
• Geographies of artistic practice
• Non-representational geography
• Psychology
• Practice-based research
• Artistic practice
• Image-making
• Video-elicitation
• Methodological innovation
• Qualitative methods
• Subjectivity
• Spatiality
• Post-phenomenological
• Affect
• Implicit
• exploration
• geography
• urban geography and urbanism

• University of Oxford , Oxford, United Kingdom

  Janet Banfield

Janet Banfield is a lecturer in human geography at Hertford College, Oxford University, UK. With publications in both geography (Cultural Geographies) and psychology (Journal of Phenomenological Psychology), Janet’s research integrates interdisciplinary understandings and practices. Her research focuses on the generation of space and identity during cultural practices, and on methodological innovation within this field. 

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