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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “krishanu maiti”
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  • Posthumanist Perspectives on Literary and Cultural Animals

    Edited by Krishanu Maiti ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book offers Posthumanist readings of animal-centric literary and cultural texts. The contributors put the precepts and premises of humanism into question by seriously considering the animal presence in texts. The essays collected here focus primarily on literary and cultural texts from varied theoretically informed interdisciplinary perspectives advanced by critical approaches such as ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • Global Perspectives on Eco-Aesthetics and Eco-Ethics

    A Green Critique

    by Krishanu Maiti, Soumyadeep Chakraborty, Frederick Gordon, David R. Cole, Susan Haris, Ann Skea, Asmae Ourkiya, Sk Tarik Ali, Stephen Poon0, Apratim Kundu1, Shruti Das2, Gulsah Gocmen3, Neeraj Sankhyan4, Suman Sigroha5, Lakshmi Chithra6, Debdas Roy7, Shelby Heathcoat8, Raktima Bhuyan9, Hemanga Dutta0, John Charles Ryans1, Chelsea Adams2, Justine Breton3, Heather Dail4, Nicole C. Dittmer5, Swarnalatha Rangarajan7, Dr Pramod K. Nayar8 ...
    Series series Environment and Society
    Global Perspectives on Eco-Aesthetics and Eco-Ethics: A Green Critique focuses on the interface of the Anthropocene, sustainability, ecological aesthetics, multispecies relationality, and the environment as reflected in literature and culture. This book examines how writers have addressed ecological crises and environmental challenges that transcend national, cultural, political, social, and ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

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    by Jack Halberstam ...
    Series series a John Hope Franklin Center Book
    The Queer Art of Failure is about finding alternatives—to conventional understandings of success in a heteronormative, capitalist society; to academic disciplines that confirm what is already known according to approved methods of knowing; and to cultural criticism that claims to break new ground but cleaves to conventional archives. Jack Halberstam proposes “low theory” as a mode of thinking and ... Read more

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  • What Would Animals Say If We Asked the Right Questions?

    by Vinciane Despret ...
    Translated by Brett Buchanan ...
    Series series Posthumanities
    “You are about to enter a new genre, that of scientific fables, by which I don’t mean science fiction, or false stories about science, but, on the contrary, true ways of understanding how difficult it is to figure out what animals are up to.” —Bruno Latour, form the ForewordIs it all right to urinate in front of animals? What does it mean when a monkey throws its feces at you? Do apes really know ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Partial Connections

    by Marilyn Strathern ...
    Updated with a new Preface, this seminal work challenges the routine ways in which anthropologists have thought about the complexity and quantity of their materials. Marilyn Strathern focuses on a problem normally regarded as commonplace; that of scale and proportion. She combines a wide-ranging interest in current theoretical issues with close attention to the cultural details of social life, ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • The Handbook of Contemporary Animism

    by Graham Harvey ...
    Series series Acumen Handbooks
    The Handbook of Contemporary Animism brings together an international team of scholars to examine the full range of animist worldviews and practices. The volume opens with an examination of recent approaches to animism. This is followed by evaluations of ethnographic, cognitive, literary, performative, and material culture approaches, as well as advances in activist and indigenous thinking about ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and the Environment

    by Timothy Clark ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Literature
    The degrading environment of the planet is something that touches everyone. This 2011 book offers an introductory overview of literary and cultural criticism that concerns environmental crisis in some form. Both as a way of reading texts and as a theoretical approach to culture more generally, 'ecocriticism' is a varied and fast-changing set of practices which challenges inherited thinking and ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Literary Theory

    An Anthology

    Edited by Julie Rivkin, Michael Ryan ...
    Series series Blackwell Anthologies
    The new edition of this bestselling literary theory anthology has been thoroughly updated to include influential texts from innovative new areas, including disability studies, eco-criticism, and ethics.Covers all the major schools and methods that make up the dynamic field of literary theory, from Formalism to PostcolonialismExpanded to include work from Stuart Hall, Sara Ahmed, and Lauren Berlant ... Read more

    $70.00 USD

  • Animals and Women

    Feminist Theoretical Explorations

    by Joan Dunayer, Lynda Birke, Marti Kheel ...
    Animals and Women is a collection of pioneering essays that explores the theoretical connections between feminism and animal defense. Offering a feminist perspective on the status of animals, this unique volume argues persuasively that both the social construction and oppressions of women are inextricably connected to the ways in which we comprehend and abuse other species. Furthermore, it ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • Anthropology of Nature

    Inaugural lecture delivered on Thursday 2 March 2001

    by Philippe Descola ...
    Series series Leçons inaugurales
    It looks as though the anthropology of nature is an oxymoron of sorts, given that for the past few centuries, nature has been characterized in the West by humans’ absence, and humans, by their capacity to overcome what is natural in them. But nature does not exist as a sphere of autonomous realities for all peoples. By positing a universal distribution of humans and non-humans in two separate ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Drawn to See

    Drawing as an Ethnographic Method

    by Andrew Causey ...
    In this meditation/how-to guide on drawing as an ethnographic method, Andrew Causey offers insights, inspiration, practical techniques, and encouragement for social scientists interested in exploring drawing as a way of translating what they "see" during their research. ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • Sensual Relations

    Engaging the Senses in Culture and Social Theory

    by David Howes ...
    With audacious dexterity, David Howes weaves together topics ranging from love and beauty magic in Papua New Guinea to nasal repression in Freudian psychology and from the erasure and recovery of the senses in contemporary ethnography to the specter of the body in Marx. Through this eclectic and penetrating exploration of the relationship between sensory experience and cultural expression, Sensual ... Read more

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