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... agencement facilitation William James Lucy Blackman relational field ...

... that emphasizes how facilitation activates a relational field that embraces the nonvoluntary share of movement-moving. agencement facilitation William James Lucy Blackman relational field ...

... the opposite of rationality. This affect-based power of self-effecting decision moves in a complex relational field primarily composed not of subjects or objects but of events and their contributing modes of activity. This suggests the possibility of an intuitive art of the event intervening at the “regressive...

... Appendix A reviews how exhibition design has figured in scholarly literature in museum studies, design history, design thinking, and design anthropology, finding that it largely has been treated as invisible. These design-related fields have mostly overlooked the entwined workings of exhibit...

... Racial formation theory arose as a critique of US sociology’s ethnicity-, nation-, and class-based models that slight race. Instead, the theory holds, race is a central, irreducible element of social relations that implicate social, economic, and political meanings and practices. Racial...

... a longer temporal view and a wider relational field than the gift/commodity frame usually invites. In tracking the social life of individual kidneys in Mexico over the course of their distinctive biographies in fine-grained detail, this chapter pursues a more processual sense of the possibilities produced...

... intensity is developed as an alternative. The focus is on the role of the other as catalyst for the inventive power of affect. At work is sympathy that does not reside in the subject but rather constitutes it in the complex back-and-forth between the infra- and transindividual levels of the relational field...

... that it is “environmental”: bearing not on the individual or on life, but on the collective field of emergence of forms of life. The relation between the process of ontopower and the capitalist process is discussed at length. A new concept of nature is proposed to understand how these processes form a symbiosis...

... This essay argues that the “archipelagic” turn in American studies is a productive way to more fully engage Guam and the emergent field of Guam studies. It embodies an archipelagic structure by viewing Guam as a complex space contested by various populations and interests vying...

... of political economy: that Žižek’s work, rather than merely appealing to a certain Marxist politics to supplement the psychoanalytic field on the level of the social, enacts or performs an intervention into the question of the splitting of capital as a social relation. Marx political economy...

... The introduction establishes the main interventions the book seeks in relation to emergent interests in sound as a site of environmental governance/politics. It outlines the book’s core theoretical contributions: sonic materialism, sonic capital, mediation, and limits. It then overviews...

...Crude Aesthetics Part 5 focuses on crude oil as an agent in enabling aesthetic relations to the Earth. It argues that aesthetics cannot be reduced to human sensibility and must be theorized from the position of objects that impress themselves upon the senses and build relations...

... A Spanish phrase animates this chapter by Rebeca Ibáñez Martín and Annemarie Mol: Joaquín les gusta. This forms an entrance into human-animal relations in a small village in Galicia, in the north of Spain. Here, we explore a particular kind of love for animals, condensed in the Spanish word...

... How did the “glass ceiling” and related characteristics of female labor force experience become recognized as a proper object for social scientific study? Exploring interactions between the contexts of discovery and justification reveals how this phenomenon was recognized and established...

... The history of metrics in global health takes us immediately to historic forms of counting that began in the colonial period and persisted into the postwar, postcolonial era. How some things changed in the postwar period and how they have shifted again under more recent inventions of the field...

... a gestational model of racial inheritance, which locates racialized kinship not as a discrete property of bodies, but as an intercorporeal and affective field. surrogacy queer pregnancy gestational labor womb uterine relations ...

... Responding to the chapters included in Contemporary African Screen Worlds , this afterword formulates a few reflections aimed at pointing out further directions for future research in the field of African screen media. It points in particular at the need to further investigate the political...

... the analytic gaze to include a longer temporal view and a wider relational field than the gift/commodity frame usually invites. In tracking the social life of individual kidneys in Mexico over the course of their distinctive biographies in fine-grained detail, this chapter pursues a more processual sense...

... Chapter 3 discusses Andrew Salkey’s novel Escape to an Autumn Pavement (1960) in the context of postwar British immigration and Wolfenden-era discourses surrounding homosexuality. The chapter places Salkey’s novel alongside British postwar documents in the new field of Race Relations, in RAF...

... faculty. The chapter shares a story about the author’s experiences of exploitation and disposability as an adjunct and argues that adjunctification and its related structures of feeling function as a central form of unwellness in the contemporary academy. The chapter examines the field of Asian American...