The Materiality of Nothing

Exploring Our Everyday Relationships with Objects Absent and Present

Helen Holmes (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

150 Seiten

2023
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-65557-0 (ISBN)

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The Materiality of Nothing explores the invisible, intangible and transient materials and objects of everyday life and the relationships we have with them. Drawing on over 15 years of original, empirical research, it builds on growing research on the everyday, and unites the established field of material culture and materiality with emerging sociological studies exploring notions of nothing and the unmarked. The chapters cover topics such as lost property, museum curation, plastic microfibres, thrift, music and even hair, illuminating how invisible and intangible materials conjure memories, meanings and identities, inextricably binding us to other people, places and things. In turn, the book also engages with issues of sustainability and consumption, raising questions regarding society’s increasing need for material accumulation and posing some alternatives.

Helen Holmes is a Lecturer in Sociology based in the Sustainable Consumption Institute at the University of Manchester, UK, and a member of the Morgan Centre for Research into Everyday Lives.

1 Introducing material affinities and the potency of connections

2 Object loss and material hauntings

3 Object Journeys 1: starting at ‘the end’

4 Object Journeys 2: acquiring, circulating, connecting

5 Layers and leaking: the invisibility of materials

6 Preservation and decay: exploring alternative accumulation

7 Rethinking materiality for a more sustainable society

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Erscheinungsdatum	02.08.2023
Reihe/Serie	Materializing Culture
Zusatzinfo	1 Tables, black and white; 4 Halftones, black and white; 4 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	362 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater
	Reisen ► Reiseführer
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-367-65557-8 / 0367655578
ISBN-13	978-0-367-65557-0 / 9780367655570
Zustand	Neuware