{"id":23092,"date":"2024-04-27T10:52:29","date_gmt":"2024-04-27T10:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/interactions-and-influences-exploring-the-agency-of-things-in-shaping-social-realities\/"},"modified":"2024-04-27T10:52:29","modified_gmt":"2024-04-27T10:52:29","slug":"interactions-and-influences-exploring-the-agency-of-things-in-shaping-social-realities","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/interactions-and-influences-exploring-the-agency-of-things-in-shaping-social-realities\/","title":{"rendered":"Interactions and Influences: Exploring the Agency of Things in Shaping Social Realities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">The \u201cmaterial turn\u201d in the social sciences and humanities at the turn of the 20th century has drawn attention to the ways in which things (materials, matter, non-human forces) have their own agency and affects, i.e., the material world is not just a background to human dramas, but also influences human actions and events. Eschewing the binaries of subject and object, humans and non-humans, scholars focusing on the \u201cagency of things\u201d show, for example, how objects, nonhuman forces, and affect (sounds, feelings, stimuli) act upon, with, and through human and non-human bodies to shape situations and events. Drawing on at least two of the works by anthropologists Pascal Menoret, Diana Allan, and\/or Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins, reflect upon what you have learned about the \u201cagency of things.\u201d In what ways do the material environments shape people\u2019s social realities? How have waste, toxins, sounds,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">vibrations, and other stimuli besieged humans and\/or influenced events?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">i included the book by pascal menoret (joyriding in riyadh) and the chapters of waste siege by&nbsp;<span style=\"color: inherit; font-size: 14px; background-color: var(--color-6); font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-family: Poppins, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Roboto, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Arial, &quot;Noto Sans&quot;, sans-serif, &quot;Apple Color Emoji&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI Emoji&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;, &quot;Noto Color Emoji&quot;;\">Sophia Stamatopoulou<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201cmaterial turn\u201d in the social sciences and humanities at the turn of the 20th century has drawn attention to the ways in which things (materials, matter, non-human forces) have their own agency and affects, i.e., the material world is not just a background to human dramas, but also influences human actions and events. Eschewing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[75],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/23092"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/23092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=23092"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=23092"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=23092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}