Title & Author:

Making things international, 1. Circuits and motion / Mark B. Salter, editor.

Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2015]

Description:

xxii, 369 pages ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part I. World in Motion -- Electronic Passports -- Passport Photos -- The Traffic Light -- AVATAR -- Containers -- Bicycle -- Boats -- Ballast -- Part II. Bodies in Motion -- Symptoms -- Corpses -- Virus -- Microbes -- Breathless -- Blood -- Bodies -- Tanks -- Drones -- Part III. Things in Motion -- MemeLife -- Videos -- Garbage -- Carbon -- Currency -- Biometric MasterCard -- Cocaine -- Clock.

Summary:

"Building on recent debates in critical social theory and international relations, Making Things International I: Circuits and Motion presents twenty-five essays that engage the global, the local, and the international through the lens of objects. It represents the first substantial new materialist intervention in global politics and international relations, offering a diverse and provocative set of reflections on how different objects create, sustain, complicate, and trouble the international. Problematizing the stuff of global life, Making Things International focuses on contemporary materialist scholarship on the international realm. The first of two volumes, these original contributions by both new and established scholars examine how war, diplomacy, trade, communication, and mobile populations are made by things: weapons, vehicles, shipping containers, commodities, passports, and more. The authors demonstrate how mundane, everyday objects--not normally understood as international--are in fact deeply implicated in how we think of the world: blood, garbage, viruses, traffic lights, clocks, memes, and ships' ballast. Contributors: Michele Acuto, U College London; Peter Adey, Royal Holloway U of London; Rune Saugmann Andersen, U of Helsinki; Jessica Auchter, U of Tennessee at Chattanooga; Mike Bourne, Queen's U Belfast; Kathleen P.J. Brennan; Elizabeth Cobbett, U of East Anglia; Stefanie Fishel, Hobart and William Smith Colleges; Emily Gilbert, U of Toronto; Jairus Grove, U of Hawai'i at Manoa; Charlie Hailey, U of Florida; John Law, Open U; Wen-yuan Lin, National Tsing-hua U; Oded Lowenheim, Hebrew U of Jerusalem; Chris Methmann; Benjamin J. Muller, U of Western Ontario; Can E. Mutlu, Bilkent U; Genevieve Piche; Joseph Pugliese, Macquarie U; Katherine Reese; Michael J. Shapiro, U of Hawai'i at Manoa; Benjamin Stephan; Daniel Vanderlip; William Walters, Carleton U; Melissa Autumn White, U of British Columbia; Lauren Wilcox, U of Cambridge; Yvgeny Yanovsky."-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9780816696253 (hardback)
081669625X (hardback)
9780816696260 (pb)
0816696268 (pb)
9781452944517 (ebook)

Subject:

International relations Philosophy.
Materialism Philosophy.
World politics 21st century.
Matérialisme Philosophie.
Politique mondiale 21e siècle.
POLITICAL SCIENCE International Relations General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE Human Services.
POLITICAL SCIENCE Globalization.
Politics and Government.
World politics
Internationale Politik
Alltagsgegenstand
Materialismus
Internationella relationer teori, filosofi.
Materialism (filosofi)
Internationell politik.
Globalisering.

Added entries:

Salter, Mark B.

Circuits and motion

Holdings:

Location: Library main 291603
Call No.: BIB 235350
Status: Available