Materiality of Nothing - Exploring Our Everyday Relationships With Objects Absent and Present

The Materiality of Nothing explores the invisible, intangible and transient materials and objects of everyday life and the relationships we have with them.

List of contents

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
Bibliography

About the author

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.

Summary

The Materiality of Nothing explores the invisible, intangible and transient materials and objects of everyday life and the relationships we have with them.

Product details

• Authors: Helen Holmes, Holmes Helen
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.11.2024
• EAN: 9780367655655
• ISBN: 978-0-367-65565-5
• No. of pages: 150
• Series: Materializing Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, Human Geography, Museology & heritage studies, Museology and heritage studies