New Materialism, Micropolitics and the Everyday Production of Gender-Related Violence
This paper assesses how a new materialist ontology can inform the sociological study of gender-related violence (GRV). The new materialisms are relational rather than essentialist; post-anthropocentric as opposed to humanist; and replace dualisms such as agency/structure, reason/emotion and micro/ma...
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| description | This paper assesses how a new materialist ontology can inform the sociological study of gender-related violence (GRV). The new materialisms are relational rather than essentialist; post-anthropocentric as opposed to humanist; and replace dualisms such as agency/structure, reason/emotion and micro/macro with a monist or ‘flat’ ontology. To make sense of GRV from within this ontology, we explore violence as assemblages of human and non-human matter and draw upon the DeleuzoGuattarian micropolitical concepts of ‘the war machine’ and ‘lines of flight’. While violence may supply a protagonist with new capacities (a line of flight), it typically closes down or constrains the capacities of one or more other parties in a violence-assemblage. This theoretical exploration establishes the basis for a methodological approach to studying GRV empirically, using a Deleuzian toolkit of affects, assemblages, capacities and micropolitics. The paper concludes with an assessment of what is gained from this new materialist ontology of GRV. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d54154fec1244c91b5fa6fb543ab45252023-11-23T18:55:47ZengMDPI AGSocial Sciences2076-07602022-08-0111938010.3390/socsci11090380New Materialism, Micropolitics and the Everyday Production of Gender-Related ViolenceNick J. Fox0Pam Alldred1Department of Behavioural and Social Sciences, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield HD1 1DH, UKSchool of Social Work, Social Care and Communities, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham NG1 4FQ, UKThis paper assesses how a new materialist ontology can inform the sociological study of gender-related violence (GRV). The new materialisms are relational rather than essentialist; post-anthropocentric as opposed to humanist; and replace dualisms such as agency/structure, reason/emotion and micro/macro with a monist or ‘flat’ ontology. To make sense of GRV from within this ontology, we explore violence as assemblages of human and non-human matter and draw upon the DeleuzoGuattarian micropolitical concepts of ‘the war machine’ and ‘lines of flight’. While violence may supply a protagonist with new capacities (a line of flight), it typically closes down or constrains the capacities of one or more other parties in a violence-assemblage. This theoretical exploration establishes the basis for a methodological approach to studying GRV empirically, using a Deleuzian toolkit of affects, assemblages, capacities and micropolitics. The paper concludes with an assessment of what is gained from this new materialist ontology of GRV.https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/11/9/380affectassemblagegender-related violenceline of flightmicropoliticsnew materialism |
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| title | New Materialism, Micropolitics and the Everyday Production of Gender-Related Violence |
| title_full | New Materialism, Micropolitics and the Everyday Production of Gender-Related Violence |
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| title_short | New Materialism, Micropolitics and the Everyday Production of Gender-Related Violence |
| title_sort | new materialism micropolitics and the everyday production of gender related violence |
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