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This review considers work in the field of new materialisms, bearing in mind the wide range of approaches that make up the broader 'material turn' in critical and cultural theory but focusing in particular on the feminist new materialist conversation that draws on the work of Jane Bennett, Karen Barad, Samantha Frost, Rosi Braidotti, and others. It notes the new materialisms' continued heterogeneity and describes a turn to method in the field, one that enables a vibrant dialogue between applied and theoretical scholarship. The pieces reviewed share an engagement with that trend. They also illustrate two important problems that the field has engaged with in 2019. The first question concerns the new materialisms' politics of citation, and the need for a decolonial practice that engages with indigenous and non-western thought. The second is the question of a new materialist ontology: how to reconcile the tension between 'flat' and differentiated, subject-oriented accounts of agency, significance, and value. The new materialists this review follows seek a middle ground, one that allows them to emphasize the political stakes of human and more-than-human relations. Following the introduction, sections are: 1. New Materialist Practice, Feminist Ends; 2. Indigeneity and the New Materialisms; 3. Sensation in a Material World; 4. A Cartography of the New Materialisms; 5. Reading's Situation; 6. Exclusion and Activist New Materialism; and 7. The Things We Imagine.

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The works reviewed in this year's essay on the New Materialisms raise questions about the field's orientation to knowledge creation and to its subjects of study, critiquing universalizing discussions of the Anthropocene, questioning notions of 'pure' or 'pristine' Nature, and proposing considerations for ethical and scholarly attention. Along the way, they touch on the problems of human ontology, employ the New Materialisms as a method for scholarship across the disciplines and for applied scholarly and creative work, raise the question of the New Materialisms' political stakes (or lack thereof), and attempt to negotiate relationships between Western academic knowledge-making and other forms and situations of knowledge. Following an overview of these questions in the introduction, the essay is divided into four sections: 1. Utopia Now, focusing on Jayna Brown's Black Utopias: Speculative Life and the Music of Other Worlds; 2. Clutter Culture, which discusses Rebecca R. Falkoff's Possessed: A Cultural History of Hoarding; 3. National Dirt, on Mieka Erley's On Russian Soil: Myth and Materiality; and 4. Cartographies of the Anthropocene, which considers Anna L Tsing, Jennifer Deger, Alder Keleman Saxena, and Feifei Zhou's multimedia online project Feral Atlas: The More-Than-Human Anthropocene.

Among other social and political changes, post-materialist theory anticipated the need to strengthen democracy in political institutions in post-industrial societies. This change in political values would mean that in addition to growth in post-materialist values, parties would be pushed to take an alternative view of politics that would entail greater assimilation of democratic procedures. This paper partially and empirically tests the validity of this explanation in four European party systems. The Greens are the focus, since they are considered the parties that best fit the post-materialist profile. In particular, the paper aims to ascertain whether the Greens display a significantly better positioning in respect to support for democracy and the congruence of their voters than other parties, as theory leads us to believe. The explanation of higher levels of party congruence is also expected to be related to post-materialist party features. The findings of this research did not show enough evidence to validate our theoretical expectations.

In "Critical Economy' and Social Institution: A Reply to Bieler and Morton" (2004), Werner Bonefeld accuses the authors of economic determinism because of their "Critical Economy" approach in their 2003 article, "Globalization, the State, and Class Struggle." The authors reiterate their definition of capitalist production that emphasizes the social constitution of capital & the notion of internalization. 9 References. M. Pflum

AbstractThis review of new work in the new materialisms in 2020 picks up a thread of inquiry outlined in the previous year: how to understand how human persons may live, act, and find political efficacy in a relational and intertangled material world. Each of the monographs reviewed offers a different approach to understanding how persons find agency from within the intertanglements of things. Along the way, they address questions of embodiment, of race and of gender, of the materiality of language, of the role of the imagination, of the philosophy of history, and of critical method. Following the introduction, the first three sections are 1. Lo! A Shape!; 2. Militant Vegetables; and 3. Blackness and Plasticity. Each of these offers a distinct account of human ontology, accounting both for the ways the self is moved by its world and the ways it acts within it. The last three sections are: 4. Strange Words, Strange Matter; 5. Disappearing Things; and 6. Four Degrees of History. Each of these considers a monograph which synthesizes new materialist theory with frameworks from related fields in order to offer new perspectives on human action, freedom, or thought.

We know how much matter and materiality influences, shapes and manipulates our becoming. Therefore how can we be anything but interested in feminist theories of materialism? We are interested in theorizing that opens a redefinition of how matter and materiality may be perceived. It is especially interesting when this theorizing also embraces the queerness in the world. This volume is a tribute to a new way of thinking about materiality, and represents a feminist voice in the 'material turn' that appears to be taking place in the social and human sciences.

"Queer as Materialism" published on by Oxford University Press.