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Material insurgency : towards a distributed environmental politics /

Examines emerging new materialist and posthuman conceptions of subjectivity and agency, and explores their increasing significance for contemporary climate change environmentalism. In Material Insurgency, Andrew M. Rose examines emerging new materialist and posthuman conceptions of subjectivity and...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Rose, Andrew M., 1977-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Albany, NY : SUNY Press, [2021]
Series:SUNY series in new political science.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1 Climate Change Environmentalism and Distributed Politics
  • Environmentalism in a Carbon Democracy
  • Keystone XL and Pipeline Politics
  • Distributed Potentialities
  • Chapter 2 H. D. Thoreau and the Practice of Distributed Knowledges
  • Situated Knowledges and a Passionate Scientist
  • Hybridity's Alternative Maps
  • Parabolic Walks
  • Chapter 3 Bacterial Insurgency in Karen Tei Yamashita's Through the Arc of the Rainforest
  • Insurgent Bacteria
  • Decentered Humans
  • Chapter 4 The Material Temporalities of Leslie Silko's Almanac of the Dead
  • Material Temporalities
  • Distributed Revolutions
  • A Patient Urgency
  • Chapter 5 (Dis)intentional Politics and Its Limits: Crisis and Innovation in Nathaniel Rich's Odds Against Tomorrow and Chang-rae Lee's On Such a Full Sea
  • Wasting Away on the Land
  • Organize "Where You Are"
  • Disintentional Organizing
  • Chapter 6 The Unknowable Now: Passionate Science and Transformative Politics in Kim Stanley Robinson's Speculative Fiction
  • Positioned Rationality as "Passionate Science"
  • Going Optimodal: Transformations in the Anthropocene
  • The Unknowable Now
  • Coda
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index