1st Edition

Entangled Things Objects and the Anthropocene

By Alison Hulme Copyright 2025
146 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

146 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

146 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Entangled Things takes the concept of entanglement as its starting point in investigating the relationship between us and the material things we engage with. Each chapter illustrates a particular form of entanglement – desiring things, hoarding things, creating things, ridding ourselves of things – using ethnographic examples and theoretical perspectives. Hulme encourages a wider consideration... Read more

Foreword

Introduction

1 Entanglement

2 Possession

3 Enchantment

4 Hoarding

5 Disentanglement

6 Making

Conclusion: Have we ever been unentangled?

Notes

References

Biography

Alison Hulme is an Associate Professor at the University of Northampton, UK, and Chair of the Global Studies Association, UK. Her previous books include On the Commodity Trail (2015) and A Brief History of Thrift (2019).