Anthropos and the Material

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

AvPenny Harvey,Christian Krohn-Hansen,Knut G. Nustad,Knut G Nustad

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The destructive effects of modern industrial societies have shaped the planet in such profound ways that many argue for the existence of a new geological epoch called the Anthropocene. This claim brings into relief a set of challenges that have deep implications for how relations between the human, the material, and the political affect contemporary social worlds. The contributors to Anthropos and the Material examine these challenges by questioning and complicating long-held understandings of the divide between humans and things. They present ethnographic case studies from across the globe, addressing myriad topics that range from labor, economics, and colonialism to technology, culture, the environment, agency, and diversity. In foregrounding the importance of connecting natural and social histories, the instability and intangibility of the material, and the ways in which the lively encounters between the human and the nonhuman challenge conceptions of liberal humanism, the contributors point to new understandings of the capacities of people and things to act, transform, and adapt to a changing world.

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Utgivningsdatum2019-06-07
Mått152 x 229 x 23 mm
Vikt522 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor272
FörlagDuke University Press
ISBN9781478001799

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Acknowledgments viiIntroduction / Penny Harvey, Christian Krohn-Hansen, and Knut G. Nustad 1Part I: Materializing Structures1. Uncommoning Nature: Stories from the Anthropo-Not-Seen / Marisol de la Cadena 352. Contemporary Capitalism and Dominican New Yorkers' Livery-Cab Bases: A Taxi Story / Christian Krohn-Hansen 593. Anthropos and Pragmata: On the Shape of Things to Come / Ingjerd HoËm 81Part II: Material Potential4. Tabu and Bitcoin: Fluctuating (Im)materiality in Two Nonstate Media of Exchange / Keir Martin 1035. Sperm, Eggs, and Wombs: The Fabrication of Vital Matters through Legislative Acts / Marit Melhuus 1226. Lithic Vitality: Human Entanglement with Nonorganic Matter / Penny Harvey 1437. Traces of Pasts and Imaginings of Futures in St Lucia, South Africa / Knut G. Nustad 161Part III: Material Uncertainties and Heterogeneous Knowledge Practices8. Matters that Matter: Air and Atmosphere as Material Politics in South Africa / Rune Flikke 1799. The Ghost at the Banquet: Ceremony, Community, and Industrial Growth in West Norway / Marianne Elisabeth Lien and John Law 19610. When the Things We Study Respond to Each Other: Tools for Unpacking "the Material" / Anna Tsing 221Contributors 245Index 249

“This book underscores that the Anthropocene poses challenges that far exceed disciplinary or methodological boundaries, just as they exceed the bounds of the anthropos or the material. The contributors take us far in imagining analytical frameworks, sensibilities, and political possibilities that are ‘more than human’ at a time when anthropocentrism is confronting the consequences of its hubris.” - Nidhi Subramanyam (Geographical Review)

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