Materials of Culture : : Approaches to Materials in Cultural Studies / / ed. by Airin Farahmand, László Munteán, Liedeke Plate.

• Funder: Radboud University Nijmwegen
• MitwirkendeR: Adriaensen, Brigitte,; Atalaia, Nuno,; Boom, Jeroen,; Bruggeman, Daniëlle,; Cober, Carlijn,; Dam, Frederik van,; Ekkelboom, Oscar,
• HerausgeberIn: Farahmand, Airin,; Munteán, László,; Plate, Liedeke,
• Author: Radboud University Nijmwegen
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Edition Kulturwissenschaft ; 285
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (270 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Introduction: Materials Matter --; Part I: Materials of Art --; Fig. 1: Dora Maar, Hand-Shell, 1934. London, Tate Modern --; 1. Stitched into Material: On the Makeability of Shells --; 2. Celluloid --; Part II: Materials of Empire --; 3. Roman Concrete --; 4. Postclassical Marble: Reclaiming Flux in the Reception of Marble in Contemporary Art --; Part III: Extractivism and Toxic Colonialism --; 5. Asbestos: The Fallout of Shipbreaking in the Global South --; 6. Copper’s Suppressed History Unearthed in Otobong Nkanga’s Sensual and Embodied Art Practice --; 7. The Coloniality of Materiality: Brazilwood, or Unlearning with Anton de Kom in the Mauritshuis --; Part IV: Energyscapes of the Future --; 8. Lithium for the Metaverse: Myths of Nuclear and Digital Fusion --; 9. Harnessing the Sun in Tech-on-Climate Discourse --; Part V: Materials of the Nation --; 10. Dutch Peat --; 11. Milk: Material Entwinements and the Making and Unmaking of Healthy Bodies --; 12. Wool --; Part VI: Affordances of Edible Matter --; 13. Yes, There Are No Bananas --; 14. Coca(ine) --; Part VII: Material Practices in Digital Culture --; 15. The Ephemeral Materiality of Sound --; 16. Tracing the Voice’s Digital Materiality --; 17. Interface --; Part VIII: Enfolding the Body --; 18. Becoming-with: On Textile Companions and Fungi Friends --; 19. Clothing For/Against Walking --; 20. Mylar Foil: Blankets of Silver and Gold --; Part IX: Touching Texts --; Fig. 1: The cover of Thomas Pitfield’s The Poetry of Trees (1942). Copyright of the Pitfield Trust. Reproduced with the permission of the Pitfield Trust. --; 21. An Archive of the Future: Wood in Thomas Pitfield’s The Poetry of Trees --; 22. Soft Leather, Wounded Buttons, and a Silk Ribbon: Clothing a Birgittine Rule Manuscript --; Part X: Materials of Scholarly Performance --; Fig. 1: Corridor leading to arts classrooms in school 1. Photograph by the author --; 23. The Arts Classroom --; 24. Ink on Paper --; 25. The Scholar’s Coffee --; List of Contributors
• ISBN: 3839466970
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Airin Farahmand, László Munteán, Liedeke Plate.

While the so-called material turn in the humanities and the social sciences has inspired a vibrant discourse on objects, things, and the concept of materiality in general, less attention has been paid to materials, particularly in cultural studies scholarship. With each of its chapters taking a particular material as its point of departure, this volume offers a palette of fresh approaches to materials within the realm of cultural studies. The contributors call for a materials-based perspective on culture, which has become all the more pertinent by the need for sustainability in times of climate change, energy crisis, conflict, migration, and the lingering coronavirus pandemic.