Negative Geographies

This collection charts the political, conceptual, and ethical consequences of how the underexplored problem of the negative might be posed for contemporary cultural geography.

David Bissell is an associate professor of geography at the University of Melbourne. Mitch Rose is a senior lecturer of geography at Aberystwyth University. Paul Harrison is a lecturer of geography at Durham University.  

List of Illustrations Preface 1. Negative Geographies Mitch Rose, David Bissell, and Paul Harrison 2. Negativism Again: “Everything . . . Less Than the Universe Is Subject to Suffering” Chris Philo 3. A Love whereof Non- Shall Speak: Reflections on Naming; of “Non-Representational Theory” Paul Harrison 4. Ethics for the Unaffirmable: The Hesitant Love of a Cultural Translator Vickie Zhang 5. The Politics of Volunteering in Loss and at a Loss: Autobiographical Reflections on Grief, Vulnerability, and (In)Action Avril Maddrell 6. Liminal Geographies of Exhaustion: Exhausted Bodies, Exhausted Places, Exhausted Possibilities David Bissell 7. “The Little Murmur of Unconsenting Man”: On Time and the Miracle Jessica Dubow 8. Dislocation: Disorientation: Disappearance: Distance John Wylie 9. To Wound Life, to Prevent Its Recovery: Enforcing Vulnerability in Gaza Mikko Joronen 10. Come and See: Witnessing and Negation in the Mobile Killing Units of Nazi Germany Richard Carter-White 11. Tragic Democracy: The Politics of Submitting to Others Mitch Rose Afterword Contributors Index