Geography Meets Gendlin: An Exploration of Disciplinary Potential through Artistic Practice

This book makes a timely and engaging contribution to geographyÆs resurgent interest in art and artistic practice, as well as to growing geographical concerns with embodied or pre-reflective experience. It introduces Eugene GendlinÆs philosophical and methodological work to stimulate geographical thinking and practice, and explores its disciplinary potential through innovative practice-based research into artistic spatial experience. GendlinÆs philosophy and techniques for articulating the pre-reflective are explained and illustrated using artistsÆ 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 GendlinÆs ideas. Significant geographical potential within GendlinÆs workùphilosophical, conceptual and methodologicalùis 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.

• | Author: Janet Banfield
• | Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
• | Publication Date: Sep 30, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 171 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Social Science
• | ISBN-10: 1137604395
• | ISBN-13: 9781137604392