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What is non-representational theory?

[Extract from Simpson, P. (2010) Ecologies of Street Performance: Bodies, Affects, Politics. Unpublished PhD Thesis, University of Bristol, Bristol, pp. 7-10] A Short Introduction to Non-representational Theory Non-representational theory has emerged since the mid-1990s in a series of papers and book … Continue reading

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More on new publications

I’ve just received notice that my paper ‘Street Performance and the City: Public Space, Sociality, and Intervening in the Everyday’ forthcoming in ‘Space and Culture’ (previously mentioned here) will be out in the final issue (issue 4) of this year’s volume. This means … Continue reading

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Nordic Geographers meeting

Although later than I’d have prefered, in the next couple of days I will be preparing my paper for the Nordic Geographers Meeting next week in Roskilde. It’s called ‘What remains of the intersubjective?: on the presencing of self and other’. I’m … Continue reading

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New themed issue – The limits of the body: boundaries, capacities, thresholds

Social and Cultural Geography have just published a themed issue co-edited by Sebastian Abrahamsson and myself titled ‘The limits of the body: boundaries, capacities, thresholds’. This comes out of conference sessions organized by Seb and myself at the 2009 AAG … Continue reading

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New publications…

I have a number of new publications which are either now availabe early online, forthcoming, or going through the print-process. Details below (and on the ‘publications’ page). If you would like a copy of any of these, please let me … Continue reading

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Welcome

Welcome to my blog. My name in Paul Simpson and I’m a social and cultural geographer based in the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Plymouth where I work as a Lecturer in Human Geography. … Continue reading

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