Andrew M. Rose is Assistant Professor of English at Christopher Newport University.

"Material Insurgency offers a unique and valuable perspective on distributed agency and distributed environmental politics, making it an excellent resource for classes in eco-theory and social justice discourses. The text is written in an accessible language structure, which caters to both those already familiar with these academic disciplines and those willing to put in the effort to understand the theoretical foundations presented. Rose's approach of first situating the problem and establishing the conceptual framework for distributed agency through a mix of fiction and nonfiction cases results in a compelling theoretical discussion point." — H-Net Reviews (H-Environment)"Material Insurgency identifies a set of important contributions recent environmental literature, posthumanist, and new materialist theory (respectively and in conversation) might make to environmental politics and social movements today. Focusing on the crucial question of agency, which plagues environmental action, neoliberal political life, and social theory today, Material Insurgency develops a convincing case for pursuing posthumanist, nonanthropocentric, 'distributed' models, such as those imagined in these influential works of fiction. The greatest strengths of the book are its ability to bring together these timely conversations in a series of insightful, provocative ways." — Laura Shackelford, Rochester Institute of Technology

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Climate Change Environmentalism and Distributed Politics2. H. D. Thoreau and the Practice of Distributed Knowledges3. Bacterial Insurgency in Karen Tei Yamashita's Through the Arc of the Rainforest4. The Material Temporalities of Leslie Silko's Almanac of the Dead5. (Dis)intentional Politics and Its Limits: Crisis and Innovation in Nathaniel Rich's Odds Against Tomorrow and Changrae Lee's On Such a Full Sea6. The Unknowable Now: Passionate Science and Transformative Politics in Kim Stanley Robinson's Speculative FictionCodaNotesWorks CitedIndex

Andrew M. Rose is Assistant Professor of English at Christopher Newport University.

"Material Insurgency offers a unique and valuable perspective on distributed agency and distributed environmental politics, making it an excellent resource for classes in eco-theory and social justice discourses. The text is written in an accessible language structure, which caters to both those already familiar with these academic disciplines and those willing to put in the effort to understand the theoretical foundations presented. Rose's approach of first situating the problem and establishing the conceptual framework for distributed agency through a mix of fiction and nonfiction cases results in a compelling theoretical discussion point." — H-Net Reviews (H-Environment)"Material Insurgency identifies a set of important contributions recent environmental literature, posthumanist, and new materialist theory (respectively and in conversation) might make to environmental politics and social movements today. Focusing on the crucial question of agency, which plagues environmental action, neoliberal political life, and social theory today, Material Insurgency develops a convincing case for pursuing posthumanist, nonanthropocentric, 'distributed' models, such as those imagined in these influential works of fiction. The greatest strengths of the book are its ability to bring together these timely conversations in a series of insightful, provocative ways." — Laura Shackelford, Rochester Institute of Technology

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Climate Change Environmentalism and Distributed Politics2. H. D. Thoreau and the Practice of Distributed Knowledges3. Bacterial Insurgency in Karen Tei Yamashita's Through the Arc of the Rainforest4. The Material Temporalities of Leslie Silko's Almanac of the Dead5. (Dis)intentional Politics and Its Limits: Crisis and Innovation in Nathaniel Rich's Odds Against Tomorrow and Changrae Lee's On Such a Full Sea6. The Unknowable Now: Passionate Science and Transformative Politics in Kim Stanley Robinson's Speculative FictionCodaNotesWorks CitedIndex

Andrew M. Rose is Assistant Professor of English at Christopher Newport University.

"Material Insurgency offers a unique and valuable perspective on distributed agency and distributed environmental politics, making it an excellent resource for classes in eco-theory and social justice discourses. The text is written in an accessible language structure, which caters to both those already familiar with these academic disciplines and those willing to put in the effort to understand the theoretical foundations presented. Rose's approach of first situating the problem and establishing the conceptual framework for distributed agency through a mix of fiction and nonfiction cases results in a compelling theoretical discussion point." — H-Net Reviews (H-Environment)"Material Insurgency identifies a set of important contributions recent environmental literature, posthumanist, and new materialist theory (respectively and in conversation) might make to environmental politics and social movements today. Focusing on the crucial question of agency, which plagues environmental action, neoliberal political life, and social theory today, Material Insurgency develops a convincing case for pursuing posthumanist, nonanthropocentric, 'distributed' models, such as those imagined in these influential works of fiction. The greatest strengths of the book are its ability to bring together these timely conversations in a series of insightful, provocative ways." — Laura Shackelford, Rochester Institute of Technology

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Climate Change Environmentalism and Distributed Politics2. H. D. Thoreau and the Practice of Distributed Knowledges3. Bacterial Insurgency in Karen Tei Yamashita's Through the Arc of the Rainforest4. The Material Temporalities of Leslie Silko's Almanac of the Dead5. (Dis)intentional Politics and Its Limits: Crisis and Innovation in Nathaniel Rich's Odds Against Tomorrow and Changrae Lee's On Such a Full Sea6. The Unknowable Now: Passionate Science and Transformative Politics in Kim Stanley Robinson's Speculative FictionCodaNotesWorks CitedIndex