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Chapter 12 - New Materialisms

from Part III - Posthumanities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 November 2020

By
Stacy Alaimo
Edited by
Sherryl Vint
Sherryl Vint
Affiliation:
University of California, Riverside
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Summary

New materialism is a contested term, as its theoretical approaches diverge from each other while overlapping with many other theories in the nonhuman turn. This essay introduces new materialist theories and their relation to posthumanism by outlining their distinguishing characteristics, such as the conceptions of material agency.  It centers new materialism in feminist science studies, especially the work of Donna Haraway and Karen Barad.  The essay also takes up the question of whether or how new materialism is political, by analyzing the intersections between new materialisms and a range of other theories, topics, and orientations, including environmentalism, race, indigeneity, postcolonialist science studies, and disability studies.

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new materialismposthumannonhumanenvironmentalismfeminist science studiestrans-corporealityracematerial agencyindigeneitypostcolonial
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After the Human
Culture, Theory and Criticism in the 21st Century
 , pp. 177 - 191
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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  • New Materialisms
  • Edited by Sherryl Vint, University of California, Riverside
  • Book: After the Human
  • Online publication: 26 November 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108874427.013
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  • New Materialisms
  • Edited by Sherryl Vint, University of California, Riverside
  • Book: After the Human
  • Online publication: 26 November 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108874427.013
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  • New Materialisms
  • Edited by Sherryl Vint, University of California, Riverside
  • Book: After the Human
  • Online publication: 26 November 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108874427.013
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