Process and Place: A Fieldguide to Speculative Research – Hardcover

What is the relationship between process and place in speculative research? This book turns to process philosophy to provide new theoretical and methodological openings onto this question. From the earliest stirrings of a research idea to incomplete endings, this book reinvigorates all stages of research through the processual concepts of Bergson (Intuition, Duration); Whitehead (Creatures, Societies); Deleuze (Becoming, A Life), and Glissant (Opacity, Poetics).

Reaffirming the role of place in process philosophy, the book simultaneously works to de-essentialise readings of place as bounded location. This comes at a time when relationships of land, culture, and identity are crucial to navigating contested histories and futures of life. As a field guide for setting place into motion, the book challenges separations of theory from method, body from environment, and thought from world.

It offers an essential guide to speculative research for new and experienced researchers across the humanities, arts, and social sciences.