Rewriting the pernicious, enduring relationship between Blackness and animality in the
history of Western science and philosophy, Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an …

Communication is central to how we understand international affairs. Political leaders,
diplomats, and citizens recognize that communication shapes global politics. This has only …

The term “emotional practices” is gaining currency in the historical study of emotions. This
essay discusses the theoretical and methodological implications of this concept. A definition …

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In Biocultural Creatures, Samantha Frost brings feminist and political theory together with
findings in the life sciences to recuperate the category of the human for politics. Challenging …

There has been a lively debate amongst political theorists about whether certain liberal
concepts of democracy are so idealized that they lack relevance to 'real'politics. Echoing …

In this article, I note that the idea of a new materialist turn has recently been gathering steam.
The first part considers some of the signature elements of the new materialisms. The most …

This chapter explains Jane Bennett's concept of the agentic assemblage to position the
discursive artifacts of qualitative inquiry as always already material and the material as an …

During the last 20 years anti-humanist and posthumanist thinking have gained a strong
foothold in human geography. This development has indisputable benefits regarding our …

The idea of agency has long been used in the nursing literature in the study of nurses' roles
regarding the patients they take care of, but it has not often been used to study its …