Re-Thinking Agency

Non-Anthropocentric Approaches

417 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

The book explores the multi-faceted nature of contemporary reflections on agency, focusing on various discursive practices that shape the posthumanist approach to the relationship between the human and non-human world from a planetary perspective. The chapters delve into critical human-animal studies, examine new non-anthropocentric identity constructs, and offer analyses that reinterpret meanings through semiotic inversions and challenge static cultural patterns. The book concludes with discussions on decolonization practices that aim to liberate agency from oppressive systems, particularly those dominated by imperial phallogocentrism.

• Reihe: Culture – Environment – Society / Humanities and beyond
• ISBN: 9783847117629
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 07.10.2024
• Genre: Geisteswissenschaften allgemein
• Verlag: V&R unipress
• Herausgegeben von: Joanna Godlewicz-Adamiec
• Herausgegeben von: Bogdan Florea, Alena Heinritz, Patryk Szaj, Lara-Stephanie Krause-Alzaidi, Subhadeep Paul, Saikat Chakraborty, Patrycja Pichnicka-Trivedi, Katarzyna Ferworn Horawa, Branislava Vičar, Vesna Liponik, Justyna Schollenberger, Christian Struck, Concepción Cortés Zulueta, Beate Sommerfeld, Isabella Schlehaider, Justyna Włodarczyk, Sutirtho Roy, Mettin Jacob, Emma Devlin, Paweł Piszczatowski, Joanna Godlewicz-Adamiec, Mai Ibrahim, Jack Harrison, Katarzyna Moszczyńska-Dürst, Karolina Kumor, Irene Brunotti, Zofia Moros-Pałys, Maciej Laskowski, Ludovica D’Alessandro, Aránzazu Calderón Puerta, Paweł Piszczatowski