New Materialist Tangles in and for the Anthropocene
Published on 28. February 2025
Book
Hardback
184 pages
978-1-0353-4837-4 (ISBN)
Description
This special issue of the Journal of Human Rights and the Environment is based around groundbreaking conversation with Professors Jane Bennett and William E Connolly. The result is an engaging, stimulating and imaginative collection of interdisciplinary works, all directly responding to the work of Bennett and Connolly.
In the face of 'Anthropocene' pressures and challenges, moving away from an imaginary of human mastery toward an appreciation of nonhuman and more-than-human agencies is now an urgent ethical task.
This thoughtful, enriching set of essays and conversations offers a unique exploration of themes and questions concerning a lively world 'in trouble'. Provocative, stimulating, playful, insightful, and prescient, the reflections in this book invite readers into imaginative and ecologically open ways of envisioning an entangled world.
In the face of 'Anthropocene' pressures and challenges, moving away from an imaginary of human mastery toward an appreciation of nonhuman and more-than-human agencies is now an urgent ethical task.
This thoughtful, enriching set of essays and conversations offers a unique exploration of themes and questions concerning a lively world 'in trouble'. Provocative, stimulating, playful, insightful, and prescient, the reflections in this book invite readers into imaginative and ecologically open ways of envisioning an entangled world.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cheltenham
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-0353-4837-4 (9781035348374)
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Persons
Edited by Anna Grear, Adjunct Professor of Law, University of Waikato, New Zealand and Dorothy Kwek, Cardiff University, UK
Content
Contents
New materialist reflections for the Anthropocene
Anna Grear and Dorothy Kwek 1
Articles
Eco-social new-materialist reflections for the Anthropocene
Jane Bennett, William E Connolly, Dorothy Kwek and Anna Grear 15
Acting amidst: some concepts and practices
Jane Bennett 25
The Anthropocene as abstract machine
William E Connolly 35
'Acting amidst' - a conversation with Jane Bennett, facilitated by Anna Grear
Anna Grear, Jane Bennett et al. 46
The Anthropocene as abstract machine - a conversation
William E Connolly et al. 63
An other time
Elizabeth R Johnson 72
Vital materialism from social theory to sociological lines of flight
Nick J Fox 80
Drifting bodies, monstrous forms, cosmic meanings: a new materialist
geography of Hong Kong's sandy grounds
Julian Brigstocke 98
Discontinuity and the underground: permafrost imaginaries and
subterranean worlds
Charlotte Wrigley 121
Influencer
Emily Jones 134
On gardens of the Anthropocene: gendered violence, colonial legal
enclosures, and feminist posthuman kinship
Matilda Arvidsson 136
On doodling and other modes of engagement in meltdown
Sian Sullivan 167
New materialist reflections for the Anthropocene
Anna Grear and Dorothy Kwek 1
Articles
Eco-social new-materialist reflections for the Anthropocene
Jane Bennett, William E Connolly, Dorothy Kwek and Anna Grear 15
Acting amidst: some concepts and practices
Jane Bennett 25
The Anthropocene as abstract machine
William E Connolly 35
'Acting amidst' - a conversation with Jane Bennett, facilitated by Anna Grear
Anna Grear, Jane Bennett et al. 46
The Anthropocene as abstract machine - a conversation
William E Connolly et al. 63
An other time
Elizabeth R Johnson 72
Vital materialism from social theory to sociological lines of flight
Nick J Fox 80
Drifting bodies, monstrous forms, cosmic meanings: a new materialist
geography of Hong Kong's sandy grounds
Julian Brigstocke 98
Discontinuity and the underground: permafrost imaginaries and
subterranean worlds
Charlotte Wrigley 121
Influencer
Emily Jones 134
On gardens of the Anthropocene: gendered violence, colonial legal
enclosures, and feminist posthuman kinship
Matilda Arvidsson 136
On doodling and other modes of engagement in meltdown
Sian Sullivan 167