Theorizes the political agency of things and natural phenomena-such as trash, food, weather, and electricity-to examine how non-human elements exert force on human politics and social relations.

Thoreau’s encounters with nature, the author argues, allowed him to resist his all-too-human tendency toward intellectual laziness, social conformity and political complacency. Bennett pursues this theme by constructing a series…

Summer wheat, heavy with grain, waved in the July wind, and when touched by the afternoon sun, cast a golden glow on the rocks of Cemetery Ridge. Jonathan stood with…

Lee sat in the window facing the Bridge as calmly as his emotions would allow, waiting the moment when this day would enhance his life's story. He drank the last…

Jane Bennett Gaddy has captured in her third installment of the Payne family, JOAB, a piece of the history for Faulkner’s “little postage stamp of native soil” with a combination…

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2013 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Klassiker und Theorierichtungen, Note: 1,7, Universitat Hamburg (Soziologie), Veranstaltung: Klassiker soziologischer Theorie, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Jane Bennett vertritt in den neueren…

When eighteen-year-old chauffer’s daughter Jane Marlow falls for Fen while still dating his brother Eddie, she lands in the middle of a longstanding competition between the two brothers that eventually…

Generic reviews of the taxonomy, centre of diversity, ecogeographic distribution, genetic diversity distribution, conservation status, conservation gaps and future research needs are provided, along with a discussion of the importance…