Material Insurgency : Towards a Distributed Environmental Politics.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rose, Andrew M.

Series:

SUNY Series in New Political Science

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental policy.

environmental policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Material Insurgency

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, 2021.

Summary:

Examines emerging new materialist and posthuman conceptions of subjectivity and agency, and explores their increasing significance for contemporary climate change environmentalism.

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.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781438484396

1438484399

OCLC:

1258218849