A Feminist Companion to the Posthumanities
Editors: Åsberg, Cecilia, Braidotti, Rosi (Eds.)
- First comprehensive volume on feminist posthumanities, which covers new materialist forays in posthuman and more-than-human humanities
- Provides a long overdue and indespensible collection of original works by distinguished and emerging scholars on the challenges from posthumanism that the humanties currently face and how to respond to these
- Brings together top international theorists and emerging scholars in fields varying from feminist philosophy to digital -, medical – and environmental humanities
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- About this book
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This companion is a cutting-edge primer to critical forms of the posthumanities and the feminist posthumanities, aimed at students and researchers who want to catch up with the recent theoretical developments in various fields in the humanities, such as new media studies, gender studies, cultural studies, science and technology studies, human animal studies, postcolonial critique, philosophy and environmental humanities. It contains a collection of nineteen new and original short chapters introducing influential concepts, ideas and approaches that have shaped and developed new materialism, inhuman theory, critical posthumanism, feminist materialism, and posthuman philosophy. A resource for students and teachers, this comprehensive volume brings together established international scholars and emerging theorists, for timely and astute definitions of a moving target – posthuman humanities and feminist posthumanities.
- About the authors
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Cecilia Åsberg, Professor of Gender, Nature, Culture at Tema Genus, Linköping University, is the founding director of The Posthumanities Hub and the Seed Box: An Environmental Humanities Collaboratory. She teaches, collaborates and publishes essays in the intersections of gender studies and feminist theory, media and cultural studies, science and technology studies, human animal studies and other forms of posthumanities such as medical, digital and environmental humanities. Recent publications include Debates in Nordic Gender Studies: Differences Within; Glocal Pharma: International Brands and the Imagination of Local Masculinity, with Ericka Johnson and Ebba Sjögren; Posthumanistiska nyckeltexter; Animal Places, with Tora Holmberg and Jacob Bull. Åsberg is Co-Director of GEXcel International Collegium for Advanced Trandisciplinary Gender Studes.
Rosi Braidotti (B.A. Hons. Australian National University, 1978; PhD, Université de Paris, Panthéon-Sorbonne, 1981; Honorary Degrees Helsinki, 2007 and Linkoping, 2013) is Distinguished University Professor and founding Director of the Centre for the Humanities at Utrecht University. Her latest books are: Conflicting Humanities (co-edited with Paul Gilroy), London: Bloomsbury, 2016; The Posthuman, Cambridge: Polity Press, 2013; Nomadic Subjects, New York: Columbia University Press, 2011 (second, revised ed.) and Nomadic Theory: The Portable Rosi Braidotti, Columbia University Press, 2011.
- Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Feminist Posthumanities: An Introduction
Pages 1-22
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Passionately Posthuman: From Feminist Disidentifications to Postdisciplinary Posthumanities
Pages 23-33
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Posthuman Sexuality: From Ahumanity to Cosmogenic Desire
Pages 35-43
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Material Feminism in the Anthropocene
Pages 45-54
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Posthuman Phenomenologies for Planetary Bodies of Water
Pages 55-66
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- A Feminist Companion to the Posthumanities
- Editors
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- Cecilia Åsberg
- Rosi Braidotti
- Copyright
- 2018
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-62140-1
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-62140-1
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-62138-8
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-09672-4
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- X, 245
- Number of Illustrations
- 14 b/w illustrations
- Topics
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