%0 Journal Article %T The promise and practice of spontaneous prose %A Elliot Honeybun-Arnolda %J cultural geographies %@ 1477-0881 %D 2019 %R 10.1177/1474474018811664 %X Spontaneous prose can and should be used by non-representational geographers to creatively aid, inform and craft ethnographical analyses. Here, I propose that cultural and social geographers utilise this method, deployed from a genre of literature that characterised and defined the 1950s ¡®Beat Generation¡¯ of the United States, to aid in non-representational ethnographic note-taking by discussing the possible synergies between spontaneous prose and non-representational methodology, using an example from ethnographical research in the Norsk Oljemuseum, Stavanger, Norway %K ethnography %K Kerouac %K methodology %K non-representational %K practices %K spontaneous prose %U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1474474018811664