Introduction: Meanings of Matter / 1
PART I: CULTURE
Rajae El Morabet Belhaj, “Taking on the Black Trauma of Vietnam: Spike Lee and Da 5 Bloods” / 11
Zeno Grootenboer, “Matter as a Tool of Critique: The Grotesque Anthropomorphic Animal Representations of Samurai in Visual Art during Japan’s Bakumatsu Period” / 25
REVIEW: Eloise Huai-Yung Huang, “Experiences that Matter: Evaluating and Remembering in Kazuo Ishiguro’s An Artist of the Floating World” / 47
PART II: ENVIRONMENT(S)
Rebecca Billi, “Following Psychylustro: An (Imaginary) Travelogue Through the Matter of the City” / 63
Mikko Pekkonen, “What’s the Matter with Arctic Alaska?” / 81
INTERVIEW: Rik J. Janssen and Nicolas Turner, “What Is the Matter with Water? An Interview with Rosanne van der Voet” / 101
PART III: POLITICS
Nicolás Vargas Varillas, “Religiosity, Identity, and Non-material Politics in Brazil: The Role of Evangelical Christianity in the 2018 Presidential Campaign of Jair Bolsonaro” / 109
Berkant Isaev, “Mao Zedong’s Dialectical Materialism: A Matter of Translation” / 129
List of contributors / 147