Wurtz is particularly interested in how social hierarchies, such as gender, ability, and legal status, interact with migration regimes and state policies in ways that affect migrant mobility and reconfigure migrants' social relations, intimacies, material realities, and life courses over time.
Similarly, in theorizing the link, for example, between the maleness of divine imagery and the legitimation of male dominance, what needs to be explained is how the maleness of divine imagery gets distributed and interrelated with material realities, and how the discourse itself carries out the oppression of women.
Instead of airily escaping the physical nature of art into a world of thought, it dumbly and relentlessly insists on its material reality – and nothing else.
There is a destabilizing, unrelenting directness in Myles's writing, and "Afterglow" is like the "Just Kids" of dog books: a punk devotional, shot through with a sort of divine attention to material reality and a poet's associative leaps.
Roy Stephenson, the head of archaeological collections at the museum, confessed it had been hard to work out an insurance value for the object as it is so meagre in its material reality and yet so rich with tradition and story.
"Past Time" is concerned with "how each generation reinvented the national pastime to fit its own material reality and ideological perceptions," but this is no plodding, would-be Marxist analysis of baseball.
Industrial geography is not a unitary phenomenon, but rather represents the accretion of material reality and human ingenuity, which are in turn shaped by the dominant mode of wealth creation.
The imperative of the last 20 years to round up every warm body and send it to college, then to the cubicle, was tied to a vision of the future in which we somehow take leave of material reality and glide about in a pure information economy.
High-school shop-class programs were widely dismantled in the 1990s as educators prepared students to become "knowledge workers". The imperative of the last 20 years to round up every warm body and send it to college, then to the cubicle, was tied to a vision of the future in which we somehow take leave of material reality and glide about in a pure information economy.
The result, then, is an identity grounded in the person's material reality and embodiment but more explicitly "reflective and aspirational" (Stokes 2012, 365) in its presentation.
6. Hinduism's tantric and yogic traditions affirm the sacredness of material reality and contain teachings and practices to unite people with divine energy.
