Object Biographies?
‘Rather than flow, people and objects bump awkwardly along the paths they create as they go. They grate each other, dodge, stop and go, negotiate obstacles, backtrack and move off in new directions’ Knowles 2014: 7- 8.
Following our discussions about object biographies on Friday. I have started to created a list of critiques of and different approaches. You can access the full list under the readings in week 0. I will keep in adding to this list, but please let me know if you have come across any other publications that might be of interest and I will add them to the site so we can all benefit. Thank you!
Selected List of critical views of/approaches to Object Biographies [more under week 0]
-Drazin, A. 2020. The Object Biography. In Lineages and Advancements in Material Culture Studies.
-Hulme, A. 2017.Following the (unfollowable) thing: methodological considerations in the era of high globalization. Cultural Geographies 24(1) 157–160.
-Knowles, C. 2014. Flip Flop: A Journey Through Globalisation’s Backroads.
-Thomas, N. 1999. The Case of the misplaced Ponchoes. Journal of Material Culture 4 (1): 5-20
