Thomas Jellis - Why Guattari? A Liberation of Cartographies, Ecologies and Politics

This book examines Flix Guattari, the French psychoanalyst, philosopher, and radical activist, renowned for an energetic style of thought that cuts across conceptual, political, and institutional spheres.

Increasingly recognised as a key figure in his own right, Guattaris influence in contemporary social theory and the modern social sciences continues to grow. From the ecosophy of hurricanes to the micropolitics of cinema, the book draws together a series of Guattarian motifs which animate the complexity of one of the twentieth centurys greatest and enigmatic thinkers. The book examines techniques and modes of thought that contribute to a liberation of thinking and subjectivity. Divided thematically into three parts cartographies, ecologies, and micropolitics each chapter showcases the singular and pragmatic grounds by which Guattaris signature concepts can be found to be both disruptive to traditional modes of thinking, and generative toward novel forms of ethics, politics, and sociality.

This interdisciplinary compendium on Guattaris exciting, experimental, and enigmatic thought will appeal to academics and postgraduates within Social Theory, Human Geography, and Continental Philosophy.

Thomas Jellis is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford, and a Research Fellow at Keble College.

Joe Gerlach is Lecturer of Human Geography at the School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol.

JD Dewsbury is Professor of Human Geography at the University of New South Wales, Canberra, Australia.

This series provides a forum for innovative, vibrant, and critical debate within Human Geography. Titles will reflect the wealth of research which is taking place in this diverse and ever-expanding field. Contributions will be drawn from the main sub-disciplines and from innovative areas of work which have no particular sub-disciplinary allegiances.

Living with the Sea

Knowledge, Awareness and Action

Edited by Mike Brown and Kimberley Peters

Time Geography in the Global Context

An Anthology

Edited by Kajsa Ellegrd

Consolationscapes in the Face of Loss

Grief and Consolation in Space and Time

Edited by Christoph Jedan, Avril Maddrell and Eric Venbrux

The Crisis of Global Youth Unemployment

Edited by Tamar Mayer, Sujata Moorti and Jamie K. McCallum

Thinking Time Geography

Concepts, Methods and Applications

Kajsa Ellegrd

British Migration

Globalisation, Transnational Identities and Multiculturalism

Edited by Pauline Leonard and Katie Walsh

Why Guattari? A Liberation of Cartographies, Ecologies and Politics

Edited by Thomas Jellis, Joe Gerlach, and JD Dewsbury

For more information about this series, please visit: www.routledge.com/Routledge-Studies-in-Human-Geography/book-series/SE0514

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