{"product_id":"accumulation-the-material-politics-of-plastic-paperback","title":"Accumulation: The Material Politics of Plastic - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJennifer Gabrys\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eGay Hawkins\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eMike Michael\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom food punnets to credit cards, plastic facilitates every part of our daily lives. It has become central to processes of contemporary socio-material living. Universalised and abstracted, it is often treated as the passive object of political deliberations, or a problematic material demanding human management. But in what ways might a 'politics of plastics' deal with both its specific manifestation in particular artefacts and events, and its complex dispersed heterogeneity?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAccumulation explores the vitality and complexity of plastic. This interdisciplinary collection focuses on how the presence and recalcitrance of plastic reveals the relational exchanges across human and synthetic materialities. It captures multiplicity by engaging with the processual materialities or \u003ci\u003eplasticity \u003c\/i\u003eof plastic. Through a series of themed essays on plastic materialities, plastic economies, plastic bodies and new articulations of plastic, the editors and chapter authors examine specific aspects of plastic in action. How are multiple plastic realities enacted? What are their effects?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book will be of interest to students and scholars of sociology, human and cultural geography, environmental studies, consumption studies, science and technology studies, design, and political theory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJennifer Gabrys\u003c\/strong\u003e is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London, and Principal Investigator on the ERC-funded project 'Citizen sensing and environmental practice'.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGay Hawkins is a Professorial Research Fellow in social and cultural theory and Director of the\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eCentre for Critical and Cultural Studies at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMike Michael is Professor of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Sydney.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.54 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 28, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42127655960711,"sku":"9781138063068","price":126.34,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/cd95967161f113ab9dd8c10c47085861.webp?v=1732589876","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/accumulation-the-material-politics-of-plastic-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}