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Worlds Beyond Bios
The Life of Matter and the Matter of Life
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Worlds Beyond Bios
The Life of Matter and the Matter of Life
About this book
Worlds Beyond Bios builds on recent theoretical and ethnographic approaches to the more-than-human, exploring how entities not traditionally recognized as "alive" play active roles in shaping multispecies worlds. Drawing from Indigenous and Global South epistemologies as well as anthropology, the environmental humanities, and political theory, the contributors develop philosophies and practices of engagement with matter that are agentive and affective. Taken together, they offer ways of theorizing relations, justice, and materiality in an age of planetary unmaking and colonial capitalist logics, grounded in an ethics of responsibility and repair. From the political agency of mountains and the liveliness of sand to the spectral futures of coal and the opaque aesthetics of dust, Worlds Beyond Bios reveals how assumed borders between bios and non-bios are not only porous but politically consequential.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Foreword / Elizabeth A. Povinelli
- Thinking Beyond Bios in an Age of Planetary Undoing / Sophie Chao
- Part I: Eco-Materialities
- Part II: Techno-Materialities
- Part III: Cosmo-Materialities
- Part IV : Material Afterlives
- Afterword / Makere Stewart-Harawira
- Acknowledgments
- Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index
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Publisher
Duke University Press BooksYear
2026Topic
Social SciencesPrint ISBN
9781478038870
9781478033998
Subtopic
Critical TheoryeBook ISBN
9781478062493
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Yes, you can access Worlds Beyond Bios by Sophie Chao,Christine J. Winter,David Schlosberg in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Critical Theory. We have over 1.5 million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.