Worlds Beyond Bios

The Life of Matter and the Matter of Life

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-08-25
Mått:152 x 229 x undefined mm
Vikt:572 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:438
Förlag:Duke University Press
ISBN:9781478033998

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Sophie Chao is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Sydney.Christine J. Winter is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Otago.David Schlosberg is Professor of Environmental Politics at the University of Helsinki.

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“This is a fantastic collection. Threaded throughout is the argument that, to perceive and do justice to climate and environmental catastrophe, we need to undo the normative binary of life and non-life. Hybridizing Indigenous and folkloric forms of knowledge with contemporary arts, science, and sustainability aspirations, the essays are haunting, inspiring, insightful, evocative, poetic, tragic, fierce, and grief stricken.”—Samantha Frost, author of Biocultural Creatures: Toward a New Theory of the Human “This quite brilliant book thinks anthropologically and ethnographically across the life/nonlife boundary to surface relations and politics among humans and nonhumans. The editors urge us not only to enfranchise non-human in our analyses of the bios, but also to extend our anthropological attentions to the agencies of the other-than-or-more-than-organic”—Stefan Helmreich, author of A Book of Waves

Innehållsförteckning

Foreword / Elizabeth A. Povinelli ixThinking Beyond Bios in an Age of Planetary Undoing / Sophie Chao 1Part I: Eco-Materialities1. Chanting the Waters / Craig Santos Perez 272. The Power of Mountains / GastÓn Gordillo 303. Sand as Subject of Multispecies Justice / Christine J. Winter 464. Toward a Geological Humanism? / Erin Fitz-Henry 595. Climatic Corporeality / Blanche Verlie 786. Five Eco-Material Connections / Natasha Fijn 98Part II: Techno-Materialities7. Kotu Batu / Eunice Andrada 1218. Minding the Ropes / CÉsar Enrique Giraldo Herrera 1229. Waste and the City / Elizabeth Duncan 13110. What Matter Matters / David Schlosberg and Christine J. Winter 14711. Water and Soil Relationality / Giulia Lepori 157Part III. Cosmo-Materialities12. Poem of the Dead Woman / Judith Nangala Crispin 17313. Making Works with Mermaids / Jelle J. P. Wouters 17614. Strange Lights, New Skies / Yasmine Musharbash / 19715. Corazonando from the Amazon / Jenny GarcÍa Ruales 20916. Omenic Missiles, Cold War Specters / Zsuzsanna Ihar 235Part IV: Material Afterlives17. A Body Emptied—Full / Jamie Wang 25518. Ways to Love Sludge / Faizah Zakaria 26119. Multibeing Drag Rift / Susan Reid and Astrida Neimanis 28020. Frontiers of Dust / Malini Sur 28821. Pulp Frictions / Karin Bolender 29922. After Coal / Ute Eickelkamp 31523. Spent Earth / Sophie Chao 340Afterword / Makere Stewart-Harawira 351Acknowledgments 355Bibliography 357Contributors 405Index 411