New Materialism and Intersectionality: Making Middles Matter (1) (Routledge Advances in Feminist Studies and Intersectionality)

By: Katve-Kaisa Kontturi and Taru Leppänen and Tara Mehrabi and Milla Tiainen

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Synopsis: 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. In exploring the intersection of new materialisms and intersectionality studies, this volume puts forward a concept of "the middle". It refers to the situation-bound mutual impact of material, social, human, and more-than-human elements in the formation of differences, identities, subject positions, and power relations. The chapters elaborate this understanding of the middle in empirical research concerned with the relational emergence of differences in various social, cultural, artistic, and ecological settings. The middle is also proposed as a verb, whereby researchers who practise "middling" cultivate a capacity to account for the open-ended processes and relationships through which intersectional and materially lived differences unfold and reconfigure in particular contexts.This concept of the middle enriches understandings of how intersectional differences exist and can be studied, and what ethical and political implications they involve. The volume will interest scholars and students working with intersectionality, feminist new materialist, and posthumanist theories across the humanities and the social sciences.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 262 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781040306055
Related ISBNs:: 9781032518015, 9781040306024, 9781003404019
Publisher:: Taylor & Francis
Date of Addition:: 02/20/25
Copyrighted By:: selection and editorial matter, Katve-Kaisa Kontturi, Taru Leppänen, Tara Mehrabi and Milla Tiainen
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
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Categories:: Nonfiction, Sociology
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Edited by:: null Katve-Kaisa Kontturi
Edited by:: null Taru Leppänen
Edited by:: null Tara Mehrabi
Edited by:: null Milla Tiainen