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Book Synopsis
An engaging collection that explores the politics of material objects.

Table of Contents
Contents
Acknowledgements
The Stuff of Politics: An Introduction
Bruce Braun and Sarah Whatmore
Part I. Rematerializing Political Theory: Things Forcing Thought
1. Including Nonhumans in Political Theory: Opening Pandora's Box?
Isabelle Stengers
2. Thing-Power
Jane Bennett
3. Materiality, Experience, and Surveillance
William E. Connolly
Part II. Technological Politics: Affective Objects and Events
4. Materialist Politics: Metallurgy
Andrew Barry
5. Plastic Materialities
Gay Hawkins
6. Halos: Making More Room in the World for New Political Orders
Nigel Thrift
Part III. Political Technologies: Public (Dis)Orderings
7. Frontstaging Nonhumans: Publicity as a Constraint on the Political Activity of Things
Noortje Marres
8. The Political Technology of RU486: Time for the Body and Democracy
Rosalyn Diprose
9. Infrastructure and Event: The Political Technology of Preparedness
Andrew Lakoff and Stephen J. Collier
10. "Faitiche"-izing the People: What Representative Democracy Might Learn from Science Studies
Lisa Disch
Contributors
Index

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      Publisher MP - University Of Minnesota Press
      Published 9 March 2010
      ISBN-13 9780816670895
      978-0816670895
      ISBN-10 0816670897
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      Human geography

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      An engaging collection that explores the politics of material objects.

      Table of Contents
      Contents
      Acknowledgements
      The Stuff of Politics: An Introduction
      Bruce Braun and Sarah Whatmore
      Part I. Rematerializing Political Theory: Things Forcing Thought
      1. Including Nonhumans in Political Theory: Opening Pandora's Box?
      Isabelle Stengers
      2. Thing-Power
      Jane Bennett
      3. Materiality, Experience, and Surveillance
      William E. Connolly
      Part II. Technological Politics: Affective Objects and Events
      4. Materialist Politics: Metallurgy
      Andrew Barry
      5. Plastic Materialities
      Gay Hawkins
      6. Halos: Making More Room in the World for New Political Orders
      Nigel Thrift
      Part III. Political Technologies: Public (Dis)Orderings
      7. Frontstaging Nonhumans: Publicity as a Constraint on the Political Activity of Things
      Noortje Marres
      8. The Political Technology of RU486: Time for the Body and Democracy
      Rosalyn Diprose
      9. Infrastructure and Event: The Political Technology of Preparedness
      Andrew Lakoff and Stephen J. Collier
      10. "Faitiche"-izing the People: What Representative Democracy Might Learn from Science Studies
      Lisa Disch
      Contributors
      Index

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