The Institute proudly announces the publication of our latest book, R|D: Articulation and Representational Divergence by Dr Victor Peterson II.
Victor was a RACE.ED Archival Research Fellow at IASH from April to June 2022. His research centers on Articulation theory - how relations of subordination and dominance emerge - as well as global conceptions of blackness and the sound of social movements. His monograph, Black Thought: a Theory of Articulation, is currently under contract with Routledge's African and African Diaspora Series. A native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he has also published peer-reviewed articles in The Journal of Black Studies, The CLR James Journal, and others. He teaches at The New School and New York University.
R|D: Articulation and Representational Divergence takes up a call made by sociologist and activist Stuart Hall at a UNESCO conference in 1980. The call was to formalize a model and means of mapping how relations of subordination and dominance emerge and evolve. The ensuing program was called Articulation theory and focused on how these socially constitutive relations come together. As issues regarding Race, racialization, representation, and complex adaptive social formations are at the forefront of contemporary humanities discourses, R|D develops an alternative approach to their study. The hope is that those interested in developing methods to apply articulation theory to the study of social-cultural and political formations will find the open framework that R|D proposes a useful interdisciplinary tool in their respective fields.
The book is available in softcover and e-pub (opens as PDF). To request a free softcover copy, please email iash@ed.ac.uk with your full postal address (we can send internationally).
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