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Making Middles Matter: Intersecting Intersectionality with New Materialisms
NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research ( IF 0.9 ) Pub Date : 2020-03-23 , DOI: 10.1080/08038740.2020.1725118
Milla Tiainen 1 , Taru Leppänen 2 , Katve Kontturi 3, 4 , Tara Mehrabi 5
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ABSTRACT It is fair to say that the relationship between intersectionality theories and new materialisms has been characterized by tensions. Intersectional approaches have emphasized the multi-faceted positioning of subjects in relation to the classificatory power of socially constructed identity categories. Meanwhile, feminist new materialisms have foregrounded the agency of matter and argued for the relational becoming of human bodies, subjectivities, and differences beyond predefined classifications of identity. In this article we reach beyond understanding theories of intersectionality and new materialisms as mutually oppositional or exclusive. Expanding on the efforts of several feminist theorists to consider intersectionality in increasingly processual and relational terms, we propose a way of intersecting the concept of intersectionality with new materialisms. This approach 1) foregrounds the situated emergence and relatedness of embodied subjectivities and social differences and 2) draws increasing attention to the material and other-than-human elements involved in the relational emergence of intersectional differences and power relations. Our specific contribution to considering intersectionality in terms of processes and co-constitutive relations is the concept of “the middle”, drawn mostly from Erin Manning and Brian Massumi. We examine social differences as resulting from repeated middles of relationally re-forming elements in connection to data gathered during an experimental embroidery study-circle organized for gender studies students at a Finnish university.

中文翻译:

使中间问题变得重要:与新唯物主义相交

摘要可以说,交叉性理论与新唯物主义之间的关系具有张力。交叉方法强调了与社会建构的身份类别的分类能力相关的主题的多方面定位。同时,女权主义的新唯物主义提出了物质的作用,并主张人类,主观性和区别的关系成为超越身份的预定类别。在本文中,我们超越了对交叉性和新唯物主义相互对立或排斥的理论的理解。扩展了一些女权主义理论家的工作,以越来越多的过程和关系的角度考虑交叉性,我们提出了一种将交叉性概念与新的唯物主义相交的方法。这种方法1)展望了具体的主体性和社会差异的所处位置的出现和相关性,并且2)引起人们越来越多地关注涉及交叉差异和权力关系的关系出现中的物质和非人类因素。我们在过程和共构关系方面考虑交叉性的特定贡献是“中间”的概念,该概念主要来自于Erin Manning和Brian Massumi。我们研究了社交重复性因素的形成,这些社交重复性因素是由于在针对芬兰大学性别研究学生组织的一个实验性刺绣研究圈子中收集到的数据而导致的,它们之间反复出现了关系重构元素。这种方法1)展望了具体的主体性和社会差异的所处位置的出现和相关性,并且2)引起人们越来越多地关注涉及交叉差异和权力关系的关系出现中的物质和非人类因素。我们在过程和共构关系方面考虑交叉性的特定贡献是“中间”的概念,该概念主要来自于Erin Manning和Brian Massumi。我们研究了社交重复性因素的形成,这些社交重复性因素是由于在针对芬兰大学性别研究学生组织的一个实验性刺绣研究圈子中收集到的数据而导致的,它们之间反复出现了关系重构元素。这种方法1)展望了具体的主体性和社会差异的所处位置的出现和相关性,并且2)引起人们越来越多地关注涉及交叉差异和权力关系的关系出现中的物质和非人类因素。我们在过程和共构关系方面考虑交叉性的特定贡献是“中间”的概念,该概念主要来自于Erin Manning和Brian Massumi。我们研究了社交重复性因素的形成,这些社交重复性因素是由于在针对芬兰大学性别研究学生组织的一个实验性刺绣研究圈子中收集到的数据而导致的,它们之间反复出现了关系重构元素。
更新日期:2020-03-23
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