Tainted Tools
New Materialisms as a Decolonial Project
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2026
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-4425-6 (ISBN)
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-4425-6 (ISBN)
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Tainted Tools addresses the tension between new materialisms’ decolonial ambitions and its perception as a White discourse. Framing the new materialist method as ‘decolonising from within’, the book examines its benefits and dangers. Rather than pointing to failures of decolonial allyship, the book charts pathways to greater theoretical solidarity. -- .
Tainted Tools makes a provocative intervention into the fraught intersection between new materialist and decolonial approaches. Despite a common project of challenging European philosophical and social categories and hierarchies, the discourses are considered incompatible. Most prominently, new materialisms have been accused of harbouring a White vision of the human while disregarding the racist resonances of the ‘nonhuman’. The book traces this conflict to an earlier meeting point of new materialist and decolonial projects, which came about through the experimental combination of Marx and Nietzsche. Used to fight fascism, Stalinism and colonialism, this politically contentious fusion gradually became depoliticised, leading to unaddressed tensions today. While the book does not argue for a revival of these early ‘new materialisms’, it brings their strategies into dialogue with today’s new materialisms and decolonial approaches to develop greater theoretical solidarity in times of crisis. -- .
Tainted Tools makes a provocative intervention into the fraught intersection between new materialist and decolonial approaches. Despite a common project of challenging European philosophical and social categories and hierarchies, the discourses are considered incompatible. Most prominently, new materialisms have been accused of harbouring a White vision of the human while disregarding the racist resonances of the ‘nonhuman’. The book traces this conflict to an earlier meeting point of new materialist and decolonial projects, which came about through the experimental combination of Marx and Nietzsche. Used to fight fascism, Stalinism and colonialism, this politically contentious fusion gradually became depoliticised, leading to unaddressed tensions today. While the book does not argue for a revival of these early ‘new materialisms’, it brings their strategies into dialogue with today’s new materialisms and decolonial approaches to develop greater theoretical solidarity in times of crisis. -- .
Angela Last is Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Leicester. -- .
Introduction
1 Emergency materialisms
2 Spiritualising the Common
3 Confronting Nothing
4 Have we ever been ‘social’?
Openings: Towards theoretical (and practical) solidarity -- .
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 9.6.2026 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Manchester |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5261-4425-5 / 1526144255 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5261-4425-6 / 9781526144256 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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