| Entangled Things: Objects and the Anthropocene Contributor(s): Hulme, Alison (Author) |
|
 |
ISBN: 1501339354 ISBN-13: 9781501339356 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $161.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2024 This item may be ordered no more than 25 days prior to its publication date of August 30, 2024 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social |
| Physical Information: 168 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Entangled Things takes the concept of entanglement as its starting point in investigating the often unintentional relationship between us and the material things we are obsessed with or reliant on. Hulme uses each chapter to focus on a specific ethnography to illustrate a particular form of entanglement and uses this to discuss specific theories that relate to, or are specifically concerned with, entanglement. In so doing, Hulme encourages a wider consideration of the place of humans in the world, and the kind of choices we enact when influenced by the things we possess. Through engagement with a variety of thought on our relationship with things, including considering this relationship in light of ideas of alienation (Marx), conspicuous consumption (Vehblen), class (Baudrillard and Bourdieu), and more recently in terms of our place as consumer-citizens (Trentmann) and as members of a connected system in which human and non-human are blurred (Bennett, Latour, Ingold) and as evidence of our own creative agency (Miller), Hulme advances the concept of entanglement as the best means through which this relationship can be viewed. Rather than being something that is 'messy' in a simplistic way, Hulme conveys how political intricacies abound in the things with which we become entangled, regardless of how much agency we do or do not have in each specific scenario. Carefully weaving together established theory and practical ethnography, this is a must-read for students of anthropology, cultural studies, psychology and material culture. |
Contributor Bio(s): Hulme, Alison: - Alison Hulme is a Teaching Fellow at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK, and guest lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK, and University College Dublin, Ireland, as well as the 2014 Ron Lister Visiting Fellow at the University of Otago, New Zealand. She has previously worked as an Associate Lecturer at Goldsmiths and a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Iceland, Iceland, and Beijing Foreign Studies University, China. She gained her PhD in 2011 from the Goldsmiths Centre for Cultural Studies and also holds an MA in Anthropology and Cultural Politics (also from Goldsmiths), and a BA in Media Studies from Sussex University, UK. Other publications include the edited volume China's Changing Landscape of Consumerism and various journal articles. Prior to academia, Alison worked as a radio and TV presenter for many years. |