Jane Bennett

Vibrant Matter

A Political Ecology of Things

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Theorizes the political agency of things and natural phenomena--such as trash, food, weather, electricity--to examine how non-human elements exert force upon human politics and social relations.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Combined Academic Publ.
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Januar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 151mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 278g
• ISBN-13: 9780822346333
• ISBN-10: 0822346338
• Artikelnr.: 28033877

Autorenporträt

Jane Bennett

Inhaltsangabe

Preface vii
Acknowledgments xxi
1. The Force of Things 1
2. The Agency of Assemblages 20
3. Edible Matter 39
4. A Life of Metal 52
5. Neither Vitalism nor Mechanism 62
6. Stem Cells and the Culture of Life 82
7. Political Ecologies 94
8. Vitality and Self-interest 110
Notes 123
Bibliography 157
Index 171