Introduction: earthly encounters -- Feeling cold : phenomenology, spatiality, and the politics of sensation -- Locating affect, swimming underwater -- "Being kissed by everything" : race, sex and sense in bessie head's a question of power -- Psychic territory, appropriation and geopower: re-reading Fanon, Foucault, and Butler -- Location, sensation, and the anthropocene -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary:
"Earthly Encounters develops a fuller account of the lived experience of racialized gender formation as it exists on this planet, earth. It analyzes sensations: the chill of winter, the warm embrace of the wind, the feeling of being immersed in water, and a stifling sense of containment. Through this analysis in settler colonial and colonial contexts, in twentieth-century North America and Africa, Stephanie D. Clare shows how sensation is unevenly distributed within social worlds and productive of racial, national, and gendered subjectivities. From revealing the relevance of phenomenology, especially in the writings of Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Frantz Fanon, to debates concerning new materialism and affect theory, Clare shows how the phenomenology of race and gender must consider both the production of the body-subject and the environment. She concludes by making a case for the continued significance of sensation in the context of the Anthropocene." - Back of book.
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