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The Being of Relation
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Undoing the world whiteness built: excavating the ways whiteness and neurotypicality structure experience and offering a radical vision for moving beyond them. How does whiteness shape the world? How does neurotypicality police how bodies move, think, and relate? And what happens when we shift our focus...
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Brings together Glissantβs poetics of relation and Delignyβs errant lines to study the structures holding whiteness and neurotypicality in place. Moves beyond the confines of pathology and psychological assessment to look into how blackness and neurodiversity emerge at the very site of relationβwhere identity is constantly unfolding. 2 illus.
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Undoing the world whiteness built: excavating the ways whiteness and neurotypicality structure experience and offering a radical vision for moving beyond them.
How does whiteness shape the world? How does neurotypicality police how bodies move, think, and relate? And what happens when we shift our focus from individuality to relation itself?
The Being of Relation brings together Edouard Glissant's poetics of relation and Fernand Deligny's errant lines to study the structures that hold whiteness and neurotypicality in place. Moving beyond the confines of pathology and psychological assessment, Erin Manning looks into how blackness and neurodiversity emerge at the very site of relationβwhere identity is not singular but constantly unfolding.
This work examines how whiteness operates as a deeply ingrained social structure and introduces what Manning calls parapedagogies of resistance: alternative ways of learning and relating that challenge normative binaries. Drawing from critical race theory, neurodiversity studies, and philosophy, The Being of Relation offers a framework for reimagining social connections outside of conventional categories.
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ISBN: 9781835951446
Publisher: Intellect
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 15 September 2025
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Intellect Books
Illustration: 2 Halftones, black and white
Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 216
About the Author
Erin Manning is professor of fine arts and philosophy at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. Recent booksΒ include For a Pragmatics of the Useless (2020), Out of the Clear (2022) and The Being ofΒ Relation (forthcoming). She works at the intersection of the three ecologies - the environmental, the conceptual and the social - with an emphasis on the aesthetico-political (3ecologies.org). Her artistic practices explores this transversality - a recent exhibition is entitled 100 Acres (Richard Saltoun Gallery, London).
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