Negotiating the Inhuman: Bakhtin, Materiality and the Instrumentalization of Climate Change

Theory, Culture & Society

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 60-83

  Last, Angela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

alienation; Bakhtin; body; climate change; disaster; fear; materiality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875311909     PISSN: 02632764     EISSN: 14603616     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0263276412456568     Document Type: Article

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