Plastic Matter

“In her extraordinary book, Heather Davis traces plastic’s haunting colonial legacies, proliferating environmental violences, and queer futurities, showing how plastic represents both the dreams and the horrors of Western modernity. This rich and absorbing book is invaluable for understanding one of the most useful, destructive, and disconcerting substances of the Anthropocene.” -- Stacy Alaimo, author of * Exposed: Environmental Politics and Pleasures in Posthuman Times *
“There is no outside of plastic. Rejecting a purity politics in favor of figuring plastic as our queer progeny, this book reckons with plasticity from an intimate epistemological and material inside. In a world where the lure of plasticity remains inseparable from fossil-fueled white supremacist utopias, Heather Davis asks us to think honestly about the kinds of futures we desire when plastic simply ‘won’t let go.’” -- Astrida Neimanis, Canada Research Chair in Feminist Environmental Humanities, University of British Columbia Okanagan
“Davis offers a thoroughly engaging examination of material relations, focusing particularly on people's current relationship to plastic and notions of plasticity. . . . [Plastic Matter] has relevance for scholars and adult general readers with widely divergent interests and in various fields. Highly recommended.” -- M. Marinucci * Choice *