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This chapter introduces non-representational theory to an interdisciplinary audience by unpacking some of its key concepts – movement, joint action, precognition, embodiment, and affect. The chapter ends by considering the ways in which non-representational theory promotes a particular view of ‘space’ as intensive.

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Boyd, C.P. (2017). Non-Representational Theory. In: Non-Representational Geographies of Therapeutic Art Making. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46286-8_3

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