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New Materialisms: Ontology, Agency, and Politics
Publisher: Duke University Press Books

Dec 7, 2012 - For some authors, such as Roger Mac Ginty and Oliver Richmond, it is precisely the hidden or neglected political agency of the local that constitutes the limit to linear, top-down understandings of liberal peace. Practice, London: Routledge, 2007. In the study of Islam, sexuality, and queer religiosity; material religion, object-oriented ontology, and theories of compositional agency; and the intersections surrounding the study of religion, new materialism, and posthumanism. New materialism is involved in rereading traditions and through Parikka concludes that the alignments that define the feminist new materialisms are a continuation of Deleuze and Foucault through political engagement. If we talk about specific locations, Parikka argues, then we need to The question of agency and of political agency is important here too. As Richmond argues: “How do Whereas the old 'historical materialism' understood that the structuring of inequalities was amenable to conscious human transformation, the world of agency of the 'new' materialism lacks the possibilities for structural change. Mar 25, 2013 - Since the late 1990s she has taught in contemporary religious trends, publishing on pilgrimage and tourism, modern Pagan religions, new religious movements, the interface between religion and politics, and religion and popular culture. Jul 22, 2013 - The colloquium, on February 11, 2013, was focused on the new book by Clayton Crockett and Jeffrey Robbins, Religion, Politics and the Earth: A New Materialism (Palgrave-Macmillan 2013). Mar 7, 2014 - The primary reason[1] I was at CAA was to co-chair the session “Objects, Objectives, Objections: The Goals and Limits of the New Materialisms in Art History,” which I organized with Bibiana Obler of George Washington University (who, incidentally, has a brilliant and gorgeous It was perhaps the latter group that most inspired us; we were struck by how scholars of literature, philosophy, political science, etc., began spending more and more time thinking about things. Mar 17, 2014 - Here the focus is on ontologies that are material.