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230 items
Useful reference works (6 items)
Key contemporary social theorists - Anthony Elliott, Larry J. Ray, 2003 Book | Core (Must Read)
Contemporary social theory: an introduction - Anthony Elliott, 2014 Book | Core (Must Read)
The SAGE handbook of feminist theory - 2014 Book | Core (Must Read)
The SAGE handbook of feminist theory - 2014 Book | Core (Must Read)
Social theory: the multicultural and classic readings - Charles C. Lemert, 2004 Book | Core (Must Read)
Contested knowledge: social theory today - Steven Seidman, c2004 Book | Core (Must Read)
Week 13: Introduction: What is social theory? (16 items)
Key readings: (3 items)
Contemporary social theory: an introduction - Anthony Elliott, 2014 Book | Core (Must Read) | (especially Chapter 1: ‘The Textures of Society’).
Why Is Classical Theory Classical?1 - R. W. Connell, 1997 Article | Core (Must Read)
The SAGE handbook of feminist theory - 2014 Book | Core (Must Read) | Feminist epistemology and the politics of knowledge: questions of marginality
Further readings: (13 items)
Rethinking modernity: postcolonialism and the sociological imagination - 1974- Bhambra, Gurminder K., 2007 Book | Background (Could Read)
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Current Sociology - Gurminder K Bhambra, July 2014 Journal | Background (Could Read) | (Special Issue: Knowledge Production in a Global Context – **see introduction and all articles).
Southern theory: the global dynamics of knowledge in social science - Raewyn Connell, 2007 Book | Background (Could Read)
Key contemporary social theorists - Anthony Elliott, Larry J. Ray, 2003 Book | Background (Could Read)
Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective - Donna Haraway, 1988 Article | Background (Could Read)
Learning from the Outsider Within: The Sociological Significance of Black Feminist Thought - Patricia Hill Collins, 1986 Article | Background (Could Read)
Black feminist thought: knowledge consciousness and the politics of empowerment - Patricia Hill Collins, 1991 Book | Background (Could Read)
Critical theory: selected essays - Max Horkheimer, 1999 Book | Background (Could Read) | pp. 188–243.
Social theory: the multicultural and classic readings - Charles C. Lemert, 2004 Book | Background (Could Read)
Feminism without borders: decolonizing theory, practicing solidarity - Chandra Talpade Mohanty, c2003 Book | Background (Could Read)
Editors' Introduction Reinscribing British sociology: some critical reflections - Thomas Osborne, Nikolas Rose, Mike Savage, 2008-11-24 Article | Background (Could Read)
Contested knowledge: social theory in the postmodern era - Steven Seidman, 1994 Book | Background (Could Read)
Engendering the social: feminist encounters with sociological theory - Barbara L. Marshall, Anne Witz, 2004 Book | Background (Could Read)
Part I: Contested Foundations
Week 14: The Frankfurt School (13 items)
Key readings: (2 items)
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Dialectic of enlightenment: philosophical fragments - Max Horkheimer, Theodor W. Adorno, Gunzelin Schmid Noerr, 2002 Book | Core (Must Read) | Enlightenment as Mass Deception
Culture industry reconsidered Webpage | Core (Must Read) | pp. 12-19.
Further readings: (11 items)
The essential Frankfurt School reader - A. Arato, 1978 Book | Background (Could Read)
Critical theory: a very short introduction - Stephen Eric Bronner, Dawsonera, c2011 Book | Background (Could Read)
Contemporary social theory: an introduction - Anthony Elliott, 2014 Book | Background (Could Read) | Chapter 2: ‘The Frankfurt School’).
The philosophical discourse of modernity: twelve lectures - Ju ̈ rgen Habermas, 1987 Book | Background (Could Read) | Ch.V
Introduction to critical theory: Horkheimer to Habermas - David Held, 1990 Book | Background (Could Read)
Critical theory: selected essays - Max Horkheimer, 1999 Book | Background (Could Read) | pp. 188–243.
Between philosophy and social science: selected early writings - Max Horkheimer, 1993 Book | Background (Could Read) | The State of Contemporary Social Philosophy and the Tasks of an Institute for Social Research
Critical theory, Marxism and modernity - Douglas Kellner, 1989 Book | Background (Could Read)
Critical theory and society: a reader - Stephen Eric Bronner, Douglas Kellner, 1989 Book | Background (Could Read) | (especially Introduction).
Critical Theory (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) Webpage | Background (Could Read) | (entry on ‘Critical Theory’):
The Frankfurt School: its history, theories, and political significance - Rolf Wiggershaus, 1994 Book | Background (Could Read)
Week 15: Psychoanalysis (21 items)
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Key readings: (3 items)
Civilization, society and religion: group psychology, civilization and its discontents and other works - Sigmund Freud, Albert Dickson, James Strachey, 1985 Book | Core (Must Read) | Vol 12.
For and against psychoanalysis - Stephen Frosh, 1997 Book | Core (Must Read) | pp.175-227.
For and against psychoanalysis - Stephen Frosh, 2006 Book | Core (Must Read) | pp.175-227.
Further readings: (18 items)
What does the black man want - H Bhabha Webpage | Background (Could Read)
Still crazy after all these years: women, writing and psychoanalysis - Rachel Bowlby, 1992 Book | Background (Could Read) | Still crazy after all these years: travels in feminism and Psychoanalysis
Between feminism and psychoanalysis - Teresa Brennan, 1989 Book | Background (Could Read)
Case histories I: 'Dora' and 'Little Hans' - Sigmund Freud, Alix Strachey, James Strachey, Angela Richards, Alan Tyson, Sigmund Freud, Sigmund Freud, 1977 Book | Background (Could Read) | Still crazy after all these years: travels in feminism and Psychoanalysis
On metapsychology: the theory of psychoanalysis ; 'Beyond the pleasure principle,' 'The egoand the id' and other works - Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Angela Richards, 1984 Book | Background (Could Read) | Mourning and Melancholia
On sexuality: three essays on the theory of sexuality, and other works - Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Angela Richards, 1977 Book | Background (Could Read) | Female Sexuality
Introductory lectures on psychoanalysis - Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Angela Richards , 1973 Book | Background (Could Read) | Studies in Hysteria
Freud, race, and gender - Sander L. Gilman, 1993 Book | Background (Could Read)
Postcolonial theory and psychoanalysis: from uneasy engagements to effective critique - Mrinalini Greedharry, 2008 Book | Background (Could Read)
The gendered unconscious: can gender discourses subvert psychoanalysis? - Louise Gyler, 2010 Book | Background (Could Read)
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The gendered unconscious: can gender discourses subvert psychoanalysis? - Louise Gyler, 2010 Book | Background (Could Read)
Dark continents: psychoanalysis and colonialism - Ranjana Khanna, 2003 Book | Background (Could Read) | (especially Introduction).
Powers of horror: an essay on abjection - Julia Kristeva, 1982 Book | Background (Could Read) | pp. 1-31.
The four fundamental concepts of psycho-analysis - Jacques Lacan, Jacques-Alain Miller, Alan Sheridan, 1979 Book | Background (Could Read)
States of fantasy - Jacqueline Rose, 1996 Book | Background (Could Read)
Freud and the non-European - Edward W. Said, Jacqueline Rose, 2003 Book | Background (Could Read)
THE INCOMMENSURABILITY OF PSYCHOANALYSIS AND HISTORY - JOAN W. SCOTT, 2012-02 Article | Background (Could Read)
Sigmund Freud - Pamela Thurschwell, c2009 Book | Background (Could Read)
Week 16: Post-structuralism (20 items)
Key readings: (2 items)
Writing and difference - Jacques Derrida, Alan Bass, 2001 Book | Core (Must Read) | Structure Sign and Play in the Discourses of the Human Sciences
Philosophy in a time of terror: dialogues with Ju ̈ rgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida - Ju ̈ rgen Habermas, Jacques Derrida, Giovanna Borradori, 2003 Book | Core (Must Read) | (especially ‘Introduction’ and ‘Deconstructing Terrorism – Derrida’).
Further readings: (18 items)
Derrida & the political - Richard Beardsworth, 1996 Book | Background (Could Read)
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Deconstruction and Everyday Life, Or How Deconstruction Helped Me Quit Smoking | Boothroyd | Culture Machine Webpage | Background (Could Read)
Of grammatology - Jacques Derrida, 1994 Book | Background (Could Read)
Spectres de Marx: l'E ́ tat de la dette, de travail du deuil et la nouvelle Internationale - Jacques Derrida, 1993 Book | Background (Could Read)
Rogues: two essays on reason - Jacques Derrida, 2005 Book | Background (Could Read)
Taking Turns: Democracy to Come and Intergenerational Justice - Matthias Fritsch, 2011-11 Article | Background (Could Read) | Moodle
Derrida's Ethical Turn and America: Looking Back from the Crossroads of Global Terrorism and the Enlightenment by Michel Rosenfeld :: SSRN Webpage | Background (Could Read)
Deconstructions: a user's guide - Nicholas Royle, 2000 Book | Background (Could Read)
Jacques Derrida - Nicholas Royle, 2003 Book | Background (Could Read)
Margins of philosophy - J. Derrida, 1982 Book | Background (Could Read)
Poststructuralist ethics: subjectivity, responsibility and the space of community - E. Jeffrey Popke, 2003-6-1 Article | Background (Could Read)
Deconstruction and democracy: Derrida's Politics of friendship - A. J. P. Thomson, c2005 Book | Background (Could Read)
Between Justice and Legality: Derrida on Decision - W. W. Sokoloff, 2005-06-01 Article | Background (Could Read) | (Moodle)
Outside in the teaching machine - Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, 2009 Book | Background (Could Read) | (especially Chapters 5 and 6).
Outside in the teaching machine - Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, 1993 Book | Background (Could Read) | (especially Chapters 5 and 6).
10. Deconstruction I - 1/9/2009 Audio-visual document | Background (Could Read)
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Derrida - defining deconstruction - 6/9/2008 Audio-visual document | Background (Could Read)
Jacques Derrida: Section 1 - 21/5/2008 Audio-visual document | Background (Could Read)
***Week 17: Reading Week: No Class***
Part II: Power, politics and social difference
Week 18: Power, discipline and governmentality (23 items)
Key readings: (2 items)
Discipline and punish: the birth of the prison - Michel Foucault, 1977 Book | Core (Must Read) | (especially ‘Docile Bodies’).
Inventing our selves: psychology, power, and personhood - Nikolas S. Rose, 1996 Book | Core (Must Read) | (especially Introduction).
Further readings: (21 items)
Gender/body/knowledge: feminist reconstructions of being and knowing - Alison M. Jaggar, Susan R. Bordo, 1989 Book | Background (Could Read) | The Body and the Reproduction of Femininity
Unbearable weight: feminism, Western culture, and the body - Susan Bordo, 2003 Book | Background (Could Read)
The history of sexuality: Vol 1, An introduction - M. Foucault, 1979 Book | Background (Could Read)
Michel Foucault, beyond structuralism and hermeneutics - Hubert L Dreyfus, Paul Rabinow, Michel Foucault, 2013 Book | Background (Could Read) | The Subject and Power
Power - Michel Foucault, James D. Faubion, 2001 Book | Background (Could Read) | The Subject and Power pp. 326-348
Power - Michel Foucault, James D. Faubion, 2001 Book | Background (Could Read) | pp. 201-222.
Society must be defended: lectures at the Colle ̀ ge de France, 1975-76 - Michel Foucault, Mauro Bertani, Franc ̧
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ois Ewald, Alessandro Fontana, 2004 Book | Background (Could Read)
Unruly practices: power, discourse and gender in contemporary social theory - Nancy Fraser, 1989 Book | Background (Could Read) | Foucault on Modern Power: Empirical Insights and Normative Confusions (see also other relevant chapters).
Michel Foucault's archaeology of scientific reason - Gary Gutting, 1989 Book | Background (Could Read)
'The birth of bio-politics': Michel Foucault's lecture at the Collège de France on neo-liberal governmentality - Thomas Lemke, 2001-01 Article | Background (Could Read)
Foucault: a critical reader - David Couzens Hoy, 1986 Book | Background (Could Read)
Foucault, governmentality, and critique - Thomas Lemke, 2011 Book | Background (Could Read)
Foucault and the problem of the subject - E. McGushin, 2005-09-01 Article | Background (Could Read) | (Moodle).
Foucault: a critical introduction - Lois McNay, 1994 Book | Background (Could Read)
Governing the soul: the shaping of the private self - Nikolas S. Rose, 1999 Book | Background (Could Read)
The politics of life itself: biomedicine, power, and subjectivity in the twenty-first century - Nikolas Rose, 2007 Book | Background (Could Read)
The politics of life itself: biomedicine, power, and subjectivity in the twenty-first century - Nikolas Rose, 2007 Book | Background (Could Read)
Gender: the key concepts - Mary Evans, Carolyn H. Williams, 2013 Book | Background (Could Read) | Power’
Foucault on freedom - Johanna Oksala, 2005 Book | Background (Could Read)
Foucault, health and medicine - Alan R. Petersen, Robin Bunton, 1997 Book | Background (Could Read)
Youtube Lectures by Foucault
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Michel Foucault - The Culture of the Self, First Lecture, Part 1 of 7
This is the first in a series of three lectures in which Foucault examines Western culture's conceptual development of individual subjectivity:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaXb8c6jw0k&feature=related
Week 19: Social class and distinction (21 items)
Key readings: (2 items)
Distinction: a social critique of the judgement of taste - Pierre Bourdieu, 1984 Book | Core (Must Read) | Chapter 1: ‘The Aristocracy of Culture’ (especially pp. 12-18)
Formations of class and gender: becoming respectable - Beverley Skeggs, 1997 Book | Core (Must Read) | (especially Introduction and ‘(Dis)identifications of Class’).
Further readings: (19 items)
Mapping desire: geographies of sexualities - David Bell, Gill Valentine, 1995 Book | Background (Could Read) | Trading Places: Consumption, Sexuality, and the Production of Queer Space
Language and symbolic power - Pierre Bourdieu, Pierre Bourdieu, John B. Thompson, 1991 Book | Background (Could Read)
The weight of the world: social suffering in contemporary society - Pierre Bourdieu, Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson, Susan Emanuel, E. Joe Johnson, Shoggy T. Waryn, 1999 Book | Background (Could Read)
Readings in economic sociology - Nicole Woolsey Biggart, 2002 Book | Background (Could Read) | The Forms of Capital
Rethinking class: culture, identities and lifestyles - Fiona Devine, 2005 Book | Background (Could Read)
Where we stand: class matters - bell hooks, 2000 Book | Background (Could Read)
Disgusted subjects: the making of middle-class identities - Stephanie Lawler, 2005-07-29 Article | Background (Could Read)
The aftermath of feminism: gender, culture and social change - Angela McRobbie, 2009 Book | Background (Could Read) | Chapter 5: ‘What Not to Wear’ and Post-Feminist Symbolic Violence
The uses of cultural studies: a textbook - Angela McRobbie, 2005
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Book | Background (Could Read) | (especially Chapter on Bourdieu).
The uses of cultural studies: a textbook - Angela McRobbie, 2005 Book | Background (Could Read) | (especially Chapter on Bourdieu).
Shopping, place, and identity - Daniel Miller, 1998 Book | Background (Could Read) | (especially Chapters 1, 5 and 7).
Cultures of consumption: masculinities and social space in late twentieth-century Britain - Frank Mort, 1996 Book | Background (Could Read)
The moral significance of class - R. Andrew Sayer, 2005 Book | Background (Could Read) | (especially Chapter 5).
The moral significance of class - R. Andrew Sayer, 2005 Book | Background (Could Read) | (especially Chapter 5).
Class, self, culture - Beverley Skeggs, 2004 Book | Background (Could Read) | (especially chapters 6 and 8).
Deviant (M)others: The Construction of Teenage Motherhood in Contemporary Discourse - HELEN WILSON, ANNETTE HUNTINGTON, 2005-12-22 Article | Background (Could Read)
Reality television and class - Helen Wood, Beverley Skeggs, British Film Institute, 2011 Book | Background (Could Read)
White trash: race and class in America - Matt Wray, Annalee Newitz, 1997 Book | Background (Could Read)
“Chav Mum Chav Scum” - Imogen Tyler, 2008-03 Article | Background (Could Read)
Week 20: Feminism, gender and sexuality (26 items)
Key readings: (3 items)
Gender trouble: feminism and the subversion of identity - Judith Butler, 2006 Book | Core (Must Read) | (especially Preface and Chapters 1 and 2).
Gender trouble: feminism and the subversion of identity - Judith Butler, 2006 Book | Core (Must Read) | (especially Preface and Chapters 1 and 2).
Contemporary feminist theories - Stevi Jackson, Jackie Jones, 1998 Book | Core (Must Read) | Chapter 10: ‘Theorising Gender and Sexuality
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Further readings: (23 items)
The lesbian and gay studies reader - Henry Abelove, Miche ̀ le Aina Barale, David M. Halperin, 1993 Book | Background (Could Read) | (especially Introduction and chapter by A. Rich in this volume).
Bodies that matter: on the discursive limits of sex - Judith Butler, 1993 Book | Background (Could Read) | (especially Introduction and Chapter 1).
Undoing gender - Judith Butler, 2004 Book | Background (Could Read)
Undoing gender - Judith Butler, 2004 Book | Background (Could Read)
Sexual politics, torture, and secular time - Judith Butler, 2008-03 Article | Background (Could Read)
The globalization of sexuality - Jon Binnie, 2004 Book | Background (Could Read)
Gender - R. W. Connell, 2002 Book | Background (Could Read) | (especially pp. 31-71).
The second sex - Simone de Beauvoir, Constance Borde, Sheila Malovany-Chevallier, 2009 Book | Background (Could Read) | pp.19-36.
The SAGE handbook of feminist theory - 2014 Book | Background (Could Read)
The SAGE handbook of feminist theory - 2014 Book | Background (Could Read)
Gender: the key concepts - Mary Evans, Carolyn H. Williams, 2013 Book | Background (Could Read)
The Bare Bones of Sex: Part 1%u2014Sex and Gender - Anne Fausto%u2010Sterling, 2005 Article | Background (Could Read)
Aberrations in black: toward a queer of color critique - Roderick A. Ferguson, c2004 Book | Background (Could Read)
The history of sexuality: Vol.1: The will to knowledge - Michel Foucault, Michel Foucault, 1989 Book | Background (Could Read)
A reader in feminist knowledge - Sneja Marina Gunew, 1991 Book | Background (Could Read) | (pp. 139-160).
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Judith Butler - Sara Salih, 2002 Book | Background (Could Read)
Judith Butler and the ethics of 'difficulty' - Sara Salih, 2003-10 Article | Background (Could Read)
Epistemology of the closet - Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, American Council of Learned Societies , c2008 Book | Background (Could Read)
Epistemology of the closet - Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, 1990 Book | Background (Could Read)
Queering the color line: race and the invention of homosexuality in American culture - Siobhan B. Somerville, 2000 Book | Background (Could Read)
Sexuality - Jeffrey Weeks, 2003 Book | Background (Could Read)
Interchanges: Heteronormativity and the desire for gender - R. Wiegman, 2006-04-01 Article | Background (Could Read)
Identity and difference - Kath Woodward, Open University, 1997 Book | Background (Could Read) | (**Chapter 4 provides a useful overview of scholarly debates concerning gender, sex and sexuality).
Week 21: Postcoloniality and the politics of ‘race’ (27 items)
Key readings: (2 items)
Strange encounters: embodied others in post-coloniality - Sara Ahmed, 2000 Book | Core (Must Read) | (especially Introduction and Chapter 1).
Strange encounters: embodied others in post-coloniality - Sara Ahmed, 2000 Book | Core (Must Read) | (especially Introduction and Chapter 5).
Further readings: (25 items)
The cultural politics of emotion - Sara Ahmed, 2014 Book | Background (Could Read)
Black skin, white masks - F. Fanon, 1970 Book | Background (Could Read) | (especially Chapters 4 and 5, pp 64-119).
New ethnicities and urban culture: racisms and multiculture in young lives - Les Back, 1996 Book | Background (Could Read)
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The location of culture - Homi K. Bhabha, 2004 Book | Background (Could Read)
The location of culture - Homi K. Bhabha, 2004 Book | Background (Could Read)
Rethinking modernity: postcolonialism and the sociological imagination - 1974- Bhambra, Gurminder K., 2007 Book | Background (Could Read)
Current Sociology Webpage | Background (Could Read) | 62(4) (Special Issue: Knowledge Production in a Global Context – **see introduction and all articles).
Feminism and 'race' - Kum-Kum Bhavnani, 2001 Book | Background (Could Read)
The Empire strikes back: race and racism in 70s Britain - University of Birmingham, 1982 Book | Background (Could Read)
Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness - Paul Gilroy, 1993 Book | Background (Could Read)
Against race: imagining political culture beyond the color line - Paul Gilroy, 2001 Book | Background (Could Read)
After empire: melancholia or convivial culture? - Paul Gilroy, 2004 Book | Background (Could Read)
We Got To Get Over Before We Go Under Webpage | Background (Could Read)
‘My Britain is fuck all’ zombie multiculturalism and the race politics of citizenship - Paul Gilroy, 2012-07 Article | Background (Could Read)
Without guarantees: in honour of Stuart Hall - Stuart Hall, Paul Gilroy, Lawrence Grossberg, Angela McRobbie, 2000 Book | Background (Could Read)
Scattered hegemonies: postmodernity and transnational feminist practices - Inderpal Grewal, Caren Kaplan, 1994 Book | Background (Could Read)
Imperial leather: race, gender and sexuality in the colonial contest - Anne McClintock, American Council of Learned Societies, 1995 Book | Background (Could Read)
Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses - Chandra Talpade Mohanty, 1988 Article | Background (Could Read)
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Orientalism - Edward W. Said, 1985 Book | Background (Could Read)
Culture and imperialism - Edward W. Said, 1993 Book | Background (Could Read)
Choosing ethnic identity - Miri Song, 2003 Book | Background (Could Read)
Marxism and the interpretation of culture - Cary Nelson, Lawrence Grossberg, 1988 Book | Background (Could Read) | Can the Subaltern Speak?
The post-colonial critic: interviews, strategies, dialogues - Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Sarah Harasym, 1990 Book | Background (Could Read)
Outside in the teaching machine - Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, 2009 Book | Background (Could Read)
Outside in the teaching machine - Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, 1993 Book | Background (Could Read)
Part III: New Formations
Week 22: Transnationality and states of exception (14 items)
Key readings: (2 items)
State of exception - Giorgio Agamben, 2005 Book | Core (Must Read) | (especially Chapter 1).
Abu Ghraib: Arguing against Exceptionalism - Jasbir K. Puar, 2004 Article | Core (Must Read)
Further readings: (12 items)
Homo sacer: sovereign power and bare life - Giorgio Agamben, Daniel Heller-Roazen, 1998 Book | Background (Could Read)
Giorgio Agamben. The State of Exception. Der Ausnahmezustand. 2003 1/7 - 25/5/2009 Audio-visual document | Background (Could Read)
Are prisons obsolete? - Angela Y. Davis, c2003 Book | Background (Could Read)
Scattered hegemonies: postmodernity and transnational feminist practices - Inderpal Grewal, Caren Kaplan, 1994 Book | Background (Could Read)
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Transnational America: feminisms, diasporas, neoliberalisms - Inderpal Grewal, 2005 Book | Background (Could Read)
Multitude: war and democracy in the age of Empire - Michael Hardt, Antonio Negri, c2005 Book | Background (Could Read)
Giorgio Agamben: a critical introduction - Leland De la Durantaye, 2009 Book | Background (Could Read)
Giorgio Agamben - Alex Murray, 2010 Book | Background (Could Read)
Flexible citizenship: the cultural logics of transnationality - Aihwa Ong, 1999 Book | Background (Could Read)
Neoliberalism as exception: mutations in citizenship and sovereignty - Aihwa Ong, 2006 Book | Background (Could Read) | (especially Introduction).
Global assemblages: technology, politics, and ethics as anthropological problems - Aihwa Ong, Stephen J. Collier, 2005 Book | Background (Could Read)
Global assemblages: technology, politics, and ethics as anthropological problems - Aihwa Ong, Stephen J. Collier, 2005 Book | Background (Could Read)
Week 23: Affect and assemblages (23 items)
Key readings: (2 items)
A thousand plateaus: capitalism and schizophrenia - Gilles Deleuze, Fe ́ lix Guattari, 2004 Book | Core (Must Read) | (‘Introduction: Rhizome’ and and one other chapter).
The affective turn: theorizing the social - Patricia Ticineto Clough, Jean O'Malley Halley, 2007 Book | Core (Must Read) | Introduction
Further readings: (21 items)
The cultural politics of emotion - Sara Ahmed, 2014 Book | Background (Could Read)
Deleuzism: a metacommentary - Ian Buchanan, c2000 Book | Background (Could Read) | Ch.3
Deleuze and feminist theory - Ian Buchanan, Claire Colebrook, c2000
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Book | Background (Could Read)
Understanding Deleuze - Claire Colebrook, 2002 Book | Background (Could Read)
Gilles Deleuze - Claire Colebrook, 2002 Book | Background (Could Read)
Deleuze and research methodologies - Rebecca Coleman, Jessica Ringrose, c2013 Book | Background (Could Read)
Incorporations - Jonathan Crary, Sanford Kwinter, 1992 Book | Background (Could Read) | pp 625-633.
Negotiations, 1972-1990 - Gilles Deleuze, 1995 Book | Background (Could Read)
Cinema 1-2 - Gilles Deleuze, 1992 Book | Background (Could Read)
Dialogues II - Gilles Deleuze, Claire Parnet, Hugh Tomlinson, Barbara Habberjam, 2012 Book | Background (Could Read)
Feminism, Foucault and Deleuze - M. Fraser, 1997-05-01 Article | Background (Could Read)
Gilbert, J. (2006) 'Signifying Nothing: "Culture", "Discourse" and the Sociality of Affect'. Culture Machine V6. http://www.culturemachine.net/index.php/cm/article/viewArticle/8/7
Deleuze and Guattari: an introduction to the politics of desire - Philip Goodchild, 1996 Book | Background (Could Read)
The affect theory reader - Melissa Gregg, Gregory J. Seigworth, 2010 Book | Background (Could Read)
INVOKING AFFECT - Clare Hemmings, 2005-09 Article | Background (Could Read)
A user's guide to capitalism and schizophrenia: deviations from Deleuze and Guattari - Brian Massumi, 1992 Book | Background (Could Read)
Parables for the virtual: movement, affect, sensation - Brian Massumi, 2002 Book | Background (Could Read)
Emotion and social theory: corporeal reflections on the (ir)rational - Simon J. Williams,
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2001 Book | Background (Could Read)
Affective relations: the transnational politics of empathy - Carolyn Pedwell, 2014 Book | Background (Could Read)
Feminist Theory - Carolyn Pedwell, August 2012 Journal | Background (Could Read) | Introduction (and other articles in this journal special issue).
Terrorist assemblages: homonationalism in queer times - Jasbir K. Puar, 2007 Book | Background (Could Read)
Week 24: Post-humanisms and new materialisms (20 items)
Key readings: (3 items)
Simians, cyborgs, and women: the reinvention of nature - Donna Jeanne Haraway, 1991 Book | Core (Must Read) | (especially Introduction and Chapter 8).
Simians, cyborgs and women: the reinvention of nature - Donna Jeanne Haraway, 1991 Book | Core (Must Read) | (especially Introduction and Chapter 8).
New materialisms: ontology, agency, and politics - Diana H. Coole, Samantha Frost, c2010 Book | Core (Must Read) | Introducing the New Materialisms
Further readings: (17 items)
Open Forum Imaginary Prohibitions: Some Preliminary Remarks on the Founding Gestures of the `New Materialism' - S. Ahmed, 2008-02-01 Article | Background (Could Read)
Posthumanist Performativity: Toward an Understanding of How Matter Comes to Matter - Karen Barad, 2003 Article | Background (Could Read)
Meeting the universe halfway: quantum physics and the entanglement of matter and meaning - Karen Michelle Barad, 2007 Book | Background (Could Read)
Metamorphoses: towards a materialist theory of becoming - Rosi Braidotti, 2002 Book | Background (Could Read)
The becoming of bodies: girls, images, experience - Rebecca Coleman, 2012 Book | Background (Could Read)
Transforming Images: Screens, Affect, Futures - Rebecca Coleman, 2014 Book | Background (Could Read)
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Volatile bodies: toward a corporeal feminism - E. A. Grosz, 1994 Book | Background (Could Read)
Becomings: explorations in time, memory, and futures - E. A. Grosz, 1999 Book | Background (Could Read)
Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective - Donna Haraway, 1988 Article | Background (Could Read)
Primate visions: gender, race, and nature in the world of modern science - Donna Jeanne Haraway, 2006 Book | Background (Could Read)
Primate visions: gender, race, and nature in the world of modern science - Donna Jeanne Haraway, 1989 Book | Background (Could Read)
Modest ̲ Witness@Second ̲ Millennium.FemaleMan ̲ Meets ̲ OncoMouse: feminism and technoscience - Donna Jeanne Haraway, 1997 Book | Background (Could Read)
The companion species manifesto: dogs, people, and significant otherness - Donna Jeanne Haraway, c2003 Book | Background (Could Read)
When species meet - Donna Jeanne Haraway, 2008 Book | Background (Could Read)
The skin of the film: intercultural cinema, embodiment, and the senses - Laura U. Marks, 2000 Book | Background (Could Read)
Abstract sex: philosophy, bio-technology and the mutations of desire - Luciana Parisi, c2004 Book | Background (Could Read)
Feminist Theory - Myra J. Hird, August 2011 Journal | Background (Could Read) | Special issue on ‘Nonhuman Feminisms’
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