Touching Space, Placing Touch

'Together, the chapters in Touching Space, Placing Touch challenge the scopophilia that animates much of geographic inquiry, from key concepts to methodological frameworks and techniques. Here, touch takes hold of the geographic imagination, reworking our understanding not only of bodies and environments, but such fundamental questions as what does it means to locate, to connect and to become intimate with? Engagingly written, Touching Space, Placing Touch uses a series of empirically rich analyses to unfold these questions, providing in the process a "grounding" of affect, aesthetics, corporeality, embodiment, performance and materialism that manages to offer a radical intellectual agenda whilst remaining accessible.' Deborah Dixon, Aberystwyth University, UK