Non-Representational Theory

THRIFT, Nigel, 2007

Non-Representational Theory presents a distinctive approach to the politics of everyday life. Ranging across a variety of the spaces in which politics and the political unfold, it questions what is meant by perception, representation and practice, with the aim of valuing the fugitive practices that exist on the margins of the known. This book questions the orientation of the social sciences and humanities and makes essential reading for researchers and postgraduates. It revolves around three functions:

1. it introduces the rather dispersed discussion of non-representational theory to a wider audience
2. it provides the basis for an experimental rather than a representational approach to the social sciences and humanities,
3. it begins the task of constructing a different kind of political genre.