Modest_Witness@Second_Millennium. FemaleMan_Meets_OncoMouse

Haraway, Donna; Randolph, Lynn M.

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“…For Barad, matter is not just of the head but also of the heart and hands; it has to do with a scholarly engagement with care, social justice and seeing oneself as part of a world. Importantly, then, new materialism raises issues of responsibility and being responsive to each other's becoming-with, or as Barad and Haraway refer to it, response-ability, of a yearning for social justice (Barad 2007) and a rendering capable towards possible worlds (Haraway 1997(Haraway , 2016. New materialist perspectives do not separate epistemological from ontological and ethical domains-they are deeply ethico-onto-epistemological approaches (Barad 2007(Barad , 2014.…”

Section: Theoretical Framework Feminist New Materialsist Perspectivesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Barad 2007Barad , 2010Barad , 2015Haraway 1992Haraway , 1997Haraway , 2016 have, since the early 1990s, been advocating a material turn in philosophy and social theory (Alaimo and Hekman 2008). These approaches emphasise the entanglement of material and discursive realities, human-nonhuman encounters, and engagements with matter.…”

Section: Theoretical Framework Feminist New Materialsist Perspectivesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The notion of response-ability is one which has been written about by feminist new materialist scholars such as Karen Barad (2007), Donna Haraway (1992Haraway ( , 1997Haraway ( , 2016 and Vinciane Despret (2004, 2016. Generally speaking, response-ability refers to the ability or capacity to respond.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Towards a response-able pedagogy across higher education institutions in post-apartheid South Africa: an ethico-political analysis

Bozalek

Zembylas

2017

Educ. as change

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Internationally there has been some interest in how critical pedagogies might be enabled in higher education to support transformative social agendas. Few writers, however, have theorised the ethico-political aspects of this effort from a feminist new materialist perspective. By focusing on the analysis of an inter-institutional collaborative course which was constructed across three disciplines and two differently positioned universities in Cape Town, South Africa, this paper examines the design of the course retrospectively from a feminist new materialist theoretical framing. In so doing, it moves beyond more traditional understandings of critical pedagogy to consider the design and student engagement with the course from the perspective of what we call "response-able pedagogies." Response-able pedagogies are not simply examples of the type of learning that can take place when power relations, materiality and entanglement are acknowledged; they also constitute ethicopolitical practices that incorporate a relational ontology into teaching and learning activities. We propose that ethico-political practices such as attentiveness, responsibility, curiosity, and rendering each other capable, constitute reponse-able pedagogies. The paper focuses on the transdisciplinary and interinstitutional course to consider how these ethico-political practices which constitute a response-able pedagogy might (be put to) work and how the students were both enabled and constrained by this design in terms of their responses to such ethico-political practices. 63Bozalek and Zembylas Towards a Response-able Pedagogy

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Section: Theoretical Framework Feminist New Materialsist Perspectivesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Theoretical Framework Feminist New Materialsist Perspectivesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Towards a response-able pedagogy across higher education institutions in post-apartheid South Africa: an ethico-political analysis

Bozalek

Zembylas

2017

Educ. as change

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“…Rather, this entity emerges through these practices, here, in an arguably problematic way. Furthermore, this entity emerges here as a human/nonhuman hybrid, a microbicide/woman relationality that brings to mind the feminist critiques on STS and in particular Actor Network Theory (ANT) spearheaded by Bruno Latour (see for instance 1993,2004) for its lack of engagement questions pertaining to the social and cultural processes inherent to scientific practice through which 'the human' is diff erentially constituted (see for instance, Star, 1991;Haraway, 1997;Van der Ploeg, 2004;Braidotti, 2013). These feminist scholars critique STS and ANT for its focus on human/ nonhuman mingling, to the neglect on social and cultural processes through which the human comes to matter within human/nonhuman hybridisation.…”

Section: The Safety Trialsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In correspondence with STS agendas, these new materialisms are concerned with the breakdown of the dichotomous oppositions between biology and society, nature and culture, human and nonhuman and are characterised by paying signifi cant attention to nonhuman actors, especially within the scientifi cally focused strands of this multifarious body of work. Here, a wide array of theoretical interventions and trajectories is encompassed, including engagements with matter's literacy (Kirby, 1997(Kirby, , 2011, engagements with sexual difference and its futurity (Grosz, 2005(Grosz, , 2011Braidotti, 2011a), the constitutive role of the sciences (Haraway, 1997;Barad, 2007) and more ecological investigations (Haraway, 2016;Alaimo, 2010). Many feminist new materialisms, including the work of Barad, are pitched against the so-called cultural turn and its focus on cultural processes of signification and identity in the theorisation of sex(uality) (Hemmings, 2011).…”

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Imaginings of Empowerment and the Biomedical Production of Bodies

Zaag

2017

S&TS

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In this paper, I will explore the development of vaginal microbicides (female-initiated HIV prevention methods designed as gels, fi lms, sponges and rings women can insert vaginally before having sex to protect themselves against HIV infection) as a women's health intervention that entangles feminist ideals of empowerment with biomedical enterprise. The fi eld of vaginal microbicide development pays heed to both the specifi c biological vulnerabilities of 'the female body' that are understood to make women more susceptible to HIV infection as well as the social gendered power relations that leave women at a higher risk of HIV within the power dynamics of their sexual relationships. I am particularly interested in the ambiguity that emerges between the eff ects of a biomedical search for facticity through clinical trial testing and advocacy promises of empowerment, which I will explore through analysing the clinical trials of Nonoxynol-9 microbicide candidates in the early 1990s -a microbicide candidate that was continuously linked to vaginal ulceration and consequently a potential increase in receptivity to HIV. Through an interrogation of clinical trial reports, advocacy documents and a social science study in which the women trial participants articulated Nonoxynol-9 as their "protector", I argue that the story of Nonoxynol-9 shows an intrinsic ambiguity between the fi eld's feminist promise of empowerment and the eff ects of the biomedical search for an eff ective microbicide candidate. Drawing on the work of Karen Barad, I argue that agential realism is able to provide a robust analytical framework to interrogate the political and ethical eff ects of this ambiguity that the fi eld's own discourse of empowerment does not suffi ciently provide.

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Feminist Data Studies

Luka

Leurs

2020

The International Encyclopedia of Gender, Media, and Communication

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Data, datafication, and data studies have become key buzzwords characterizing contemporary life in the digital and knowledge economies. Critiques and ways to mobilize data for social and economic benefit are variously-and often contradictorily-imagined by scholars in disparate disciplines, as well as by politicians and policy makers, corporations and nonprofit organizations, citizens, and activists. The datalogical turn to study the structuring of data foregrounds the proliferation of algorithmic processing and data as an emergent regime of power and knowledge and value exchanges in the digital datafication of everyday life and culture. Big Data, digital methods, and data studies are more than simply semantic currencies neutrally describing present-day conditions. Indicative of Big Data as a privileged mode of knowledge production, all too often, quantitative, abstracted, and disembodied approaches are privileged over qualitative data approaches. However, we argue, alongside many others, that database technologies and human experiences are always necessarily mutually constituted (Metcalf & Crawford, 2016). Infrastructures, categorizations, and algorithmic processing are commonly black-boxed and therefore invisible with the consequence that data generated is never raw, but always cooked (Bowker, 2006). Data, data analysis, and data visualizations are never neutral, but are power ridden, situated, as they are subject to choices made by humans and machines. Yes, we "are" data, as evidenced by the way that a growing number of the world's populations are increasingly rendered as datafiable (see, for example, Cheney-Lippold, 2017). Data typologies are inescapably based on a moral agenda that prioritizes one worldview over many others. The military-industrial data analysis machinery reestablishes boundaries (and therefore barriers) between "data-haves" and "data have-nots," which are commonly based on categories of difference. Processes of datafication of culture and populations are never devoid of the various forms of cultural prejudices and discriminations. Rather, they are often used to exacerbate intersectional power hierarchies based on gender, sexuality, race, class, ability, religion, migration status, and age.In this entry, we draw from the principles of feminist ethics of care-which include attention to human meaning-making, situatedness, context-specificity, dependencies, and relationalities-to elaborate what feminist data studies could look like (Leurs, 2017;

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Modest_Witness@Second_Millennium. FemaleMan_Meets_OncoMouse

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Towards a response-able pedagogy across higher education institutions in post-apartheid South Africa: an ethico-political analysis

Towards a response-able pedagogy across higher education institutions in post-apartheid South Africa: an ethico-political analysis

Imaginings of Empowerment and the Biomedical Production of Bodies

Feminist Data Studies

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