JOINT VIRTUAL LAUNCH | Transforming Worlds: Materials, Habits and the Sensory

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Join Carolyn Pedwell for the launch her new book, Revolutionary Routines: The Habits of Social Transformation. This will be a joint launch with Rebecca Coleman, Glitterworlds: The Future Politics of a Ubiquitous Thing (MIT Press), and Jennifer Leigh and Nicole Brown, Embodied Inquiry: Research Methods (Bloomsbury). The event is hosted by Methods Lab, Goldsmiths, University of London, and the Visual and Sensory Research Cluster, University of Kent

Chair: Monica Moreno Figueroa (Cambridge)
Discussants: Lisa Blackman (Goldsmiths), Esther Priyadharshini (UEA), Aimee Grant (Swansea)

ABOUT THE BOOK

Through its account of influential socio-political processes - such as the resurgence of fascism and white supremacy, the crafting of new technologies of governance, and the operation of digital media and algorithms - this book rethinks not only how change works, but also what counts as change. Drawing examples from the affective politics of Trumpism and Brexit, nudge theory and behaviour change, social media and the international refugee crisis, and the networked activism of Occupy and Black Lives Matter, Carolyn Pedwell argues that minor gestures may be as significant as major happenings, revealing the powerful potential in our ability to remake shared habits and imaginatively reinhabit everyday life.

Carolyn Pedwell is associate professor of cultural studies, University of Kent.