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 agency and explores their increasing significance for contemporary climate change environmentalism. Working at the intersection of material ecocriticism, posthuman theory, and environmental political…
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- Full title :Material insurgency : towards a distributed environmental politics / Andrew M. Rose.
Summary
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 agency and explores their increasing significance for contemporary climate change environmentalism. Working at the intersection of material ecocriticism, posthuman theory, and environmental political theory, Rose critically focuses on the ways social movement organizing might effectively operate within the context of distributed agency. This concept undoes the privileging of rational human actors to suggest agency is better understood as a complex mixture of human and nonhuman forces. Rose explores various representations of distributed agency, from the pipeline politics of the Keystone XL campaign to the speculative literary fiction of Leslie Marmon Silko and Kim Stanley Robinson. Each of these cultural and literary texts provides a window into the possible constitution of a (distributed) environmental politics that does not yet exist and operates as a resource for envisioning environmental actors we cannot necessarily study empirically, because they are still only a prospect, or potential, of our imagination. Andrew M. Rose is Assistant Professor of English at Christopher Newport University.
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- Publication Date:©2021
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):SUNY Press
- Place of Publication:Albany
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2021
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- Description:xii, 242 pages ; : 24 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781438484372, 1438484372, 9781438484389, 1438484380
- oclc:on1229031112
- LC Classification:GE170
- Dewey Decimal:363.7/0561
Table of Contents
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.
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