New Materialism and Intersectionality

Making Middles Matter
Herausgeber: Kontturi, Katve-Kaisa; Leppanen, Taru; Mehrabi, Tara; Tiainen, Milla

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Produktbeschreibung

New Materialism and Intersectionality advances the interplay of intersectionality theories and feminist new materialisms, arguing that co-constitutive influences between these fields will provide feminist and gender studies scholars with improved tools to analyse markers of difference and identity in 21st century realities.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm
• ISBN-13: 9781032518015
• ISBN-10: 1032518014
• Artikelnr.: 71618806

Autorenporträt

Katve-Kaisa Kontturi, PhD, is Senior Lecturer in Art History and Associate Professor (Docent) of Contemporary Art Studies at the University of Turku, Finland. She specialises in feminist art and theory, processes of making and encountering art, new materialist methodologies, and art-based research, and is the author of Ways of Following: Art, Materiality, Collaboration (2018). Taru Leppänen is Professor of Gender Studies at the Åbo Akademi University. Her research interests include music and sound, feminist new materialisms, intersectionality, and children's musical practices. She is the author of the forthcoming monograph Politics of Feminist New Materialisms at Music Playschools: Musicking in the Middle. Tara Mehrabi, PhD, is Senior Lecturer in Gender Studies at the Social and Psychological Studies, Karlstad University, Sweden. Her research is situated in feminist technoscience studies, feminist new materialisms, intersectionality, gender studies, and queer death studies. She is the co-editor of the forthcoming Handbook of Queer Death Studies. Milla Tiainen, PhD, is Senior Lecturer in Musicology at the University of Turku and Associate Professor (Docent) of Musicology at the University of Helsinki. She has published widely on musical performance research, feminist and ecocritical studies of music and sound, and new materialist and posthumanist research approaches to the arts. She is co-editor of Mattering Voices: Studying Voice through New Materialisms (forthcoming).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Making Middles Matter: Feminist and Gender Studies in-between
Intersectionality and New Materialisms
Part I: Non-Anthropocentric Intersectionality
1. With a Flip of a Light Switch: A Socio-Environmental Understanding of
Intersectional Power Relations
2. In the middle of it all: Plants, History, and Feminist Encounters in
Central Europe
3. Allergic Encounters in Contact Zones: Rethinking Intersectionality
through Debility and Trans-corporeality
Part II: Makings of Race in the Middle
4. Beyond Narratives of Newness, Abandonment, Loss, and Return: An Emergent
Discussion between Feminist New Materialisms, Posthumanities and
Intersectionality
5. Assemblage Converters
6. Everybody Waits but Waits Differently: A Methodological Account of
Waiting as an Intersectional Matter of Quotidian Socio-political Middlings
Part III: Responsible Relationalities
7. Writing Exercises in the Middle: Towards Healing Methodologies
8. A Critical Cartography of the Mattering(s) of Identity Politics:
Intersectional and Interferential Explorations
9. Can Middling Foster New Feminist Coalitions? On Transgender, Race and
the Ethics of Unease
10. Tangible T/hereness and Affective Middles in Memory Work: Experiences
of Temporality in Birthing-stories of Laestadian Women