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This chapter addresses a core methodological concern for non-representational geography: whether and how we can access and apprehend pre-reflective experience. Emphasizing Eugene Gendlin’s insistence on our capacity to access and articulate from our pre-reflective experience, which runs counter to conventional non-representational geographical understandings, Banfield explores Gendlin’s ideas of explication—the development of reflective (conceptual) understanding from pre-reflective understanding—and sharp concepts, which are both rich in pre-reflective understanding and tightly tied into existing conceptual frameworks. This is a significant and timely contribution to geography’s identified needs both for methodological innovation in apprehending affect, and for greater disciplinary capacity to work with images conceptually, by considering the explication of both verbal and visual concepts.
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Banfield, J. (2016). Explication and Sharp Concepts. In: Geography Meets Gendlin. Palgrave Pivot, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-60440-8_4
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