http://hdl.handle.net/1842/1636 2013-05-22T03:04:44Z http://hdl.handle.net/1842/2143 Title: Sophisticated geographies Authors: Jacobs, Jane M Abstract: This paper offers a reflection on the relevance of Nietzsche to recent geographical scholarship. It starts by questioning the more general relationship between geography and philosophy/theory and interrogates what we might mean by theoretically sophisticated geographies. Drawing on a specific context - the postcolonial apology in contemporary Australia – the paper turns to the relevance of Nietzsche’s thinking about morality, in charting everyday moral geographies and imagining more ethical futures. 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/1842/1895 Title: How to feel things with words Authors: Laurier, Eric Abstract: A person X says to person Y ‘it’s here”. A common enough thing for someone to say to someone else, and a common enough expression for both to understand, yet professional analysts of language are troubled by what ‘it’s here’ means, it seems of quite a different order to ‘this is a tree’ or ‘if you do not eat meat then you are a vegetarian’. It would not be uncommon for certain logicians or linguists to stay with the words themselves. In staying with the words themselves, cutting away what class, gender or age of person said such words to what other category of person. Cutting away at what time period, in which culture and various other elements. Cutting away, then, most of the context and dealing with the words as if their meaning was internal to themselves. There are two things I should mention about ‘it’s here.’ Firstly, it is a favourite sort of example used to teach what indexicals in language are. Words which we rely on finding their sense by reference to their local use. Words which cause endless troubles for formal logic and for translation software. Secondly, ‘it’s here’, while not a bizarre instance, in fact recognisably and acceptably ordinary, is a made-up example. As a first step in an ethnomethodological direction I would like to shift our attention to some words actually said, come upon in looking for something else. Harvey Sacks throughout his studies of conversation analysis warned his students (and those other colleagues in receipt of his lectures) to avoid beginning with a theory and then either inventing a suitable example or looking for a quote from a transcript to pull out to illustrate it. For the former what any member of your research community views as reasonable provides the limit on suitable examples and for the latter, why bother with ordinary conversation at all? 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/1842/1894 Title: Psychoanalytic theory; Entry for the Dictionary of Human Geography, 5th Edition Authors: Bondi, Liz Abstract: Psychoanalytic theory and practice originated in the late nineteenth century in the work of Sigmund Freud (1956-1939). It offers a distinctive way of thinking about the human mind and of responding to psychological distress. Psychoanalysis has travelled widely from its central European origins, and has evolved into a complex, multi-facetted and internally fractured body of knowledge situated at the interface between the human and natural sciences, and between clinical practice and academic theory. Notwithstanding critiques of its Eurocentric origins, psychoanalysis has been taken up in many different cultural contexts, perhaps most notably in Latin America but also in India, Japan and elsewhere. Its geography and spatiality have become topics for geographical study albeit primarily within the Anglophone literature (Cameron, 2006; Kingsbury, 2003). Description: Psychoanalytic theory: Entry for the Dictionary of Human Geography, 5th Edition 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/1842/1893 Title: On the relational dynamics of caring: a psychotherapeutic approach to emotional and power dimensions of women’s care work Authors: Bondi, Liz Abstract: Care is double-edged and paradoxical, inspiring a vast range of strong feelings in both care-givers and care-recipients. This paper draws on ideas about psychotherapeutic relationships to offer a theorisation of the complex emotional and power dynamics and imaginative geographies of care. Examining the humanistic approach developed by Carl Rogers as well as the psychoanalytic tradition, I advance an interpretation of psychotherapeutic practices that foregrounds the fundamental importance of the emotional and power-inflected relationship between practitioners and those with whom they work. I show how different traditions offer conceptualisations of the shape of therapeutic relationships that are highly relevant to consideration of the emotional and power dynamics of giving and receiving care. Against this background I discuss current debates about care, emotions and power, drawing especially on feminist and disability perspectives and arguing that psychotherapeutic approaches offer a powerful lens through which to understand the emotional and power dynamics of caring relationships. I conclude by emphasising how this theorisation helps to illuminate ubiquitous features of women’s care work. 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z