This companion is a cutting-edge primer to critical forms of the posthumanities and the feminist posthumanities, aimed at students and researchers who want to catch up with the recent theoretical developments in various fields in the humanities, such as new media studies, gender studies, cultural studies, science and technology studies, human animal studies, postcolonial critique, philosophy and environmental humanities. It contains a collection of nineteen new and original short chapters introducing influential concepts, ideas and approaches that have shaped and developed new materialism, inhuman theory, critical posthumanism, feminist materialism, and posthuman philosophy. A resource for students and teachers, this comprehensive volume brings together established international scholars and emerging theorists, for timely and astute definitions of a moving target – posthuman humanities and feminist posthumanities.
Cecilia Åsberg, Professor of Gender, Nature, Culture at Tema Genus, Linköping University, is the founding director of The Posthumanities Hub and the Seed Box: An Environmental Humanities Collaboratory. She teaches, collaborates and publishes essays in the intersections of gender studies and feminist theory, media and cultural studies, science and technology studies, human animal studies and other forms of posthumanities such as medical, digital and environmental humanities. Recent publications include Debates in Nordic Gender Studies: Differences Within; Glocal Pharma: International Brands and the Imagination of Local Masculinity, with Ericka Johnson and Ebba Sjögren; Posthumanistiska nyckeltexter; Animal Places, with Tora Holmberg and Jacob Bull. Åsberg is Co-Director of GEXcel International Collegium for Advanced Trandisciplinary Gender Studes.
Rosi Braidotti (B.A. Hons. Australian National University, 1978; PhD, Université de Paris, Panthéon-Sorbonne, 1981; Honorary Degrees Helsinki, 2007 and Linkoping, 2013) is Distinguished University Professor and founding Director of the Centre for the Humanities at Utrecht University. Her latest books are: Conflicting Humanities (co-edited with Paul Gilroy), London: Bloomsbury, 2016; The Posthuman, Cambridge: Polity Press, 2013; Nomadic Subjects, New York: Columbia University Press, 2011 (second, revised ed.) and Nomadic Theory: The Portable Rosi Braidotti, Columbia University Press, 2011.