In this presentation, Dialogical Cultures Junior Fellow Dr. Julius Maximilian Rogenhofer introduces the theoretical framework of his new manuscript project The Politics of Ordinary Objects (co-authored with Cambridge social theorist Dr. Filipe Carreira da Silva). Merging literatures on contentious politics, affect, and material culture with insights from American Pragmatism he investigates how ordinary objects can become politically significant and how such objects influence struggles for rights, recognition, and group position. In an attempt to bridge the material and the ideational worlds, the argument developed gives credence to the affordances of “humble” and often overlooked objects, without simultaneously denigrating the significance of human interpreters. This new theoretical perspective enables a novel interpretation of contemporary political phenomena ranging from populism to anti-authoritarian protest movements and conspiracy thinking.
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