New Materialism and Intersectionality
Making Middles Matter
Taru Leppänen editor Milla Tiainen editor Katve-Kaisa Kontturi editor Tara Mehrabi editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Published:20th Feb '25
£145.00
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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.
"This book pushes theories of identity, intersectionality and new materialisms to their limits while weaving these paradigms together. In doing so, the book offers a vital rethinking of identity and identity politics in polarized times. Grounded in critical new materialisms and posthumanisms, the individual chapters offer an innovative toolbox for sustainable research practices, essential as geopolitical developments challenge the values of the social sciences, humanities and arts."
Iris van der Tuin, Professor in Theory of Cultural Inquiry, Utrecht University, Netherlands
ISBN: 9781032518015
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 644g
248 pages