ABSTRACT
This chapter sets out to chart the relationship between non-representational theory (NRT) and health geographies, considering how NRT has enabled geographers interested in health to refigure their conceptions of the body, place and space, and health itself. At the very least, geographers have used concepts aligned with NRT to question what health and the body mean. The chapter offers some further ideas about how concepts drawn from NRT might be of value to health geographers. It looks at the (re)conceptualization of the body that might happen through engagement with ideas of affect and by foregrounding bodily knowledges. The chapter also looks at how relationship between place, landscape and the therapeutic is refigured. It rethinks the notion of health itself. The chapter focuses on pre-cognitive and alternative health knowledges as areas where NRT and health geography have come into conversation.
