Using recent developments in social theory, this book offers questions about how bacteria, viruses, microscopic materials and societies develop in tandem. The examples discussed – from urban infrastructures to the medieval plague and from antibiotic resistance to epigenetics –develop an account of how previous and present arrangements make some futures more likely than others and how unequal patterns of exposure and entanglement arise. This book aims to demonstrate the relevance of social and practice theories by overcoming classic distinctions between the very small and the very large, between agency and structure, and between nature and culture.
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Practice Theory and the Biosocial
Microbes, Matter and Milieu
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Practice Theory and the Biosocial
Microbes, Matter and Milieu
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Table of contents
- Practice Theory and the Biosocial
- Contents
- Introduction
- PART I - Encounters and Exposures
- Chapter 1. Separation and Concentration
- Chapter 2. Contagion and Circulation
- PART II - Entanglement and Intermingling
- Chapter 3. Recursive Relations and Spatial Distributions
- Chapter 4. Passing Through and Passing On
- PART III - Differences and Directions
- Chapter 5. Qualities and Inequalities
- Conclusion
- References
- Index
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