Alexis Shotwell

Against Purity

Living Ethically in Compromised Times

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Produktbeschreibung

In AgainstPurity , Alexis Shotwell proposes a powerful new conception of socialmovements as custodians for the past and incubators for liberated futures. AgainstPurity

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Minnesota Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 136mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 304g
• ISBN-13: 9780816698646
• ISBN-10: 0816698643
• Artikelnr.: 45101722

Autorenporträt

Alexis Shotwell is Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, and the Department of Philosophy, at Carleton University. She is the author of Knowing Otherwise: Race, Gender, and Implicit Understanding.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Complexity and Complicity: An Introduction to Constitutive Impurity
1. Remembering for the Future: Reckoning with an Unjust Past
2. “Women Don’t Get AIDS, They Just Die From It”: Memory, Classification,
and the Campaign to Change the Definition of AIDS
3. Shimmering Presences: Frog, Toad, and Toxic Interdependencies
4. Consuming Suffering: Eating, Energy, and Embodied Ethics
5. Practicing Freedom: Disability and Gender Transformation
6. Worlds to Come: Imagining Speculative Disability Futures
Conclusion: The Point, However, is to Change It
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index