<span>The growing field of political education through environmental issues is organized around processes, which reach beyond the formal ones found in academic disciplines and national curricula into informal processes (such as social mobilization) and nonformal processes (such as those found in var
Material Insurgency: Towards a Distributed Environmental Politics
✍ Scribed by Andrew M. Rose
- Publisher
- State University of New York Press
- Year
- 2021
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 256
- Series
- SUNY series in New Political Science
- Category
- Library
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✦ Table of Contents
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1 Climate Change Environmentalism and Distributed Politics
Environmentalism in a Carbon Democracy
Keystone XL and Pipeline Politics
Distributed Potentialities
Chapter 2 H. D. Thoreau and the Practice of Distributed Knowledges
Situated Knowledges and a Passionate Scientist
Hybridity’s Alternative Maps
Parabolic Walks
Chapter 3 Bacterial Insurgency in Karen Tei Yamashita’s Through the Arc of the Rainforest
Insurgent Bacteria
Decentered Humans
Chapter 4 The Material Temporalities of Leslie Silko’s Almanac of the Dead
Material Temporalities
Distributed Revolutions
A Patient Urgency
Chapter 5 (Dis)intentional Politics and Its Limits: Crisis and Innovation in Nathaniel Rich’s Odds Against Tomorrow and Chang‑rae Lee’s On Such a Full Sea
Wasting Away on the Land
Organize “Where You Are”
Disintentional Organizing
Chapter 6 The Unknowable Now: Passionate Science and Transformative Politics in Kim Stanley Robinson’s Speculative Fiction
Positioned Rationality as “Passionate Science”
Going Optimodal: Transformations in the Anthropocene
The Unknowable Now
Coda
Notes
Works Cited
Index
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