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ALT A picture of a laptop showing the title page of the collection *Sleep and Its Meanings: Socio-Cultural Investigations from Critical Sleep Studies*, edited by Diletta De Cristofaro

ALT Table of contents. It reads: Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors 1. The Problem of Sleep: An Introduction to Critical Sleep Studies Diletta De Cristofaro Part I: Sleep in Arts and Culture 2. Watching and Waking: Between Critical Attention Studies and Critical Sleep Studies Alice Bennett 3. Toward a Politics of Drift: Curating Sleep for Critical Times Alanna Thain and Aleksandra Kaminska 4. A Genealogy of Sleep: A (Crip) Critique of Cultural Conceptions of Sleep Nicole Eugene 5. Sleeping Beauty and Sleep Science: Physiology and Myth-Making in Nineteenth-Century and Contemporary Somnocultures Martin Willis Part II: Sociologies of Sleep 6. The Sociology of Sleep: A Bourdieusian Approach Simon J. Williams 7. “This is how we sleep”: Young Children’s Views on How “Biologically Normal” Sleep Is Managed in Their Homes Lexie Scherer Part III: Anthropologies of Sleep 8. Troubled Sleep in Tsunami Evacuation Shelters in Yamada, Japan, 2011 Brigitte Steger

ALT Table of contents part 2. It reads: 9. Sleeping in the Peruvian Andes and the Suburbs of Marseille: An Anthropological Reflection on Sleep as a Historical and Social Experience Arianna Cecconi Part IV: Sleep’s Histories and the City 10. Captive Sleep: Urban Space and the Politics of Rest in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro Amy Chazkel 11. Revelations through Rest: Sleep and the Psyche of Mumbai Namita Vijay Dharia Part V: Technologies of Sleep 12. Beds as Symbols of Human Identity: A Varied History of Power Simona Chiodo and Imma Forino 13. Sleep Consistency: Affordances of Sleep-Tracking Technologies Nico Wettmann and Nicole Zillien 14. The Subjectivities of Wearable Sleep-Trackers: A Critical Posthumanist Discourse Analysis Anna Nolda Nagele 15. Touching Sleep: Immersed Process, Dispersed Object, Situated Vulnerability Stuart Murray, Christophe De Bezenac, Dave Lynch Afterword Sleep’s Three Faces: Vulnerability, Infrastructure, Variability Matthew Wolf-Meyer

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