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An original essay collection that explores the generative dimensions of fragility, which can help reveal new life-affirming politics and ethics.
At a time when it may be easy to fall into a defeatist melancholia, if not outright pessimism, fragility offers an opportunity for a different kind of world-making. In
Fragility forces us to reckon with the precariousness and contingency of life and to use this reckoning as a starting point to build and nurture life-affirming politics and ethics. The book explores fragility in four categories—bodies, environments, labor, and politics—and proposes to consider in each situation what/who is rendered visible, what/who is made absent, what is considered normal, and what is deemed strong and stable versus what is deemed fragile. The volume includes a strong line-up of leading and emerging scholars from a wide array of disciplines, including anthropology, social studies of science, disabilities studies, and sociology.
Table des matières
1. Introduction: Avowing Fragility
Fernando Domínguez Rubio
Part I: Bodies
2 A Healthy Breakfast for Your Child: Maintenance, Care, and the Persistence of Fragility
Annemarie Mol
3 Care as Attention to Fragility and Confronting Resistance: Parents’ Narratives of Care Practices with Multiply Disabled Children
Myriam Winance
4 Conversation with Lucy Suchman
Part II: Environments
5 The Fragility of a Mighty Process: Capital and Cattle Mutually Assist Their Reproduction
Marisol de la Cadena and Santiago Martínez Medina
6 Contamination Chores
Max Liboiron
7 Conversation with María Puig de la Bellacasa
Part III: Labor
8 Care in Fragments: Ecologies of Support Beyond Repair
Tomás Sánchez Criado and Vincent Duclos
9 Fragility, Capacity, and the Work of Repair in the Timber Plantations of South Africa
Thomas Cousins
10 Conversation with Geof Bowker
Part IV: Politics
11 Sovereignty and the Weakness of the King: Regimes of Care at Rochefort
Chandra Mukerji
12 The Fragility of Ice: Cryohuman Relations in Times of Collapse
Cymene Howe
13 Conversation with Steve Jackson
14 Conclusion: What Fragility Does
Jérôme Denis and David Pontille
Contributors
Index
A propos de l'auteur
Jérôme Denis is Professor at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) in the Center for the Sociology of Innovation, Mines Paris-PSL. With David Pontille, he is the author of The Care of Things: Ethics and Politics of Maintenance.
David Pontille is Senior Researcher at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), in the Center for the Sociology of Innovation, Mines Paris-PSL. With Jérôme Denis, he is the author of The Care of Things: Ethics and Politics of Maintenance.
Fernando Domínguez Rubio is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication, University of California, San Diego. His most recent book is Still Life: Ecologies of the Modern Imagination at the Art Museum.
