Bennett Vibrant Matter

A Political Ecology of Things
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9162-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 200 Seiten

Reihe: a John Hope Franklin Center Book

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bennett, Jane

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Jane Bennett is Professor of Political Theory and Chair of the Department of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of The Enchantment of Modern Life: Attachments, Crossings, and Ethics and Thoreau’s Nature: Ethics, Politics, and the Wild, and an editor of The Politics of Moralizing and In the Nature of Things: Language, Politics, and the Environment.