Unlearning : rethinking poetics, pandemics, and the politics of knowledge / Charles L. Briggs.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Briggs, Charles L., 1953- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Folklorists.

Folklore--Study and teaching.

Folklore.

Mass media and folklore.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Logan : Utah State University Press, [2021]

Summary:

"A provocative theoretical synthesis, Briggs questions intellectual foundations and charts new paths. Through a look back at his own works as well as critical readings, scholars can disrupt existing social and discourse theories across disciplines when they collaborate with theorists whose insights are not constrained by the bounds of scholarship"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Disciplining folkloristics

Contested mobilities : on the politics and ethnopoetics of circulation

What we should have learned from Americo paredes : the politics of communicability and the making of folkloristics

The coloniality of folklore : toward a multi-genealogical practice of folkloristics (with Sadhana Naithani)

Rethinking psychoanalysis, poetics, and performance

Dear Dr. Freud

Toward a new folkloristics of health

Moving beyond "the media" : from traditionalization to mediatization

Germ wordfare : the poetic production of medical panics

From progressive extractivism to phyto-socialism : trees, bodies, and discrepant phytocommunicabilities in a mysterious epidemic.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781646421022

1646421027

OCLC:

1236899231