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Process-Oriented Ontologies and the Ethics of Affirmation

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The philosophical underpinnings of the empirical work are described in this chapter in a straightforward manner that makes these complex thinkers more accessible to practice-based researchers. The chapter progresses by philosopher to include contemporary perspectives on process-relational philosophy, post-phenomenology, speculative realism, vital materialisms, and affirmative ethics.

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Boyd, C.P. (2017). Process-Oriented Ontologies and the Ethics of Affirmation. In: Non-Representational Geographies of Therapeutic Art Making. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46286-8_2

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