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Materiality-critique-transformation: challenging the political in feminist new materialisms

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The rise of new materialisms in feminist debates since the late 2000s is often marked by a spirit of enthusiasm – a sense of excitement is tangible in many of… Click to show full abstract

The rise of new materialisms in feminist debates since the late 2000s is often marked by a spirit of enthusiasm – a sense of excitement is tangible in many of the texts convening under the labels of new materialism. ‘Something is stirring. Calls for attention are heard from within. Visceral movements resonate from within the belly of the beast of academia. They beckon us from inside the humanities and the natural sciences. . . . Stirrings are felt more widely as well, from the world within and around us’ (Åsberg et al., 2011: 218). Scholars involved in these debates on a ‘turn’ to the material and a ‘move’ beyond the human (as ‘Man’ and

Keywords: new materialisms; critique transformation; political feminist; materiality critique; transformation challenging; challenging political

Journal Title: Feminist Theory
Year Published: 2020

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