New Feminist Materialism: engendering an ethic-onto-epistemological methodology

Feminist New Materialisms: Activating Ethico-Politics through Genealogies in Social Sciences

“…Agency materializes and redefines itself as a more than isolated human agency. New materialist approaches to the creation and dissemination of scientific knowledge are proliferating across diverse disciplines such as arts (e.g., Kontturi et al 2018;Barrett et al 2017;Barrett and Bolt 2013), science and technology (e.g., Ernst et al 2017), contemporary philosophy (e.g., Cielemęcka and Rogowska-Stangret 2018;Bühlmann et al 2017;Revelles-Benavente et al 2014; Dolphijn and van der Tuin 2012; Coole and Frost 2010), cultural and media studies (e.g., Tiainen et al 2015), and social sciences (e.g., Juelskjaer et al;Bath et al 2017;Fox and Allred 2017;Alaimo and Hekman 2008). Although in the mentioned publications the ethico-political frames are strongly present, this is not the case for how new materialisms are recognized and represented in academia in general.…”

“…The papers invite us to understand feminism with new materialisms and vice-versa. Our approach to this field of research is strongly marked by the concepts of genealogies (Van der Tuin 2015), feminicity (Colman 2014), diffracting diffraction (Barad 2014), and the processes of becoming and sense-making of our own flexible and multiple identities (Braidotti 2013). That is, our approach has to do with how we build, contemporaneously, our epistemological genealogies effectively to produce points of activation for feminist, queer, postcolonial, and ecological practices.…”

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

“…'Anthropos') present their interventions as projects of renewal, even sometimes of radical rupture with epistemic foundations of modern Western thinking. They call for fundamental epistemic shifts, they diagnose the implosion of analytical categories and, in particular, they address the limitations of and the violence done by dichotomies and dualisms such as nature/culture or human/non-human (see, for instance: Alaimo and Hekman, 2008;Coole and Frost, 2010;Hinton and van der Tuin, 2014;Kaiser and Thiele, 2014;Revelles-Benavente et al, 2014;Tiainen et al, 2015;Barrett et al, 2017;Bu¨hlmann et al, 2017;Ernst et al, 2017;Revelles-Benavente et al, 2019). Latest since Karen Barad's (2007) agential realist intervention in Meeting the Universe Halfway, a (re)turn to and of the material has been proclaimed in feminist theory to counter a diagnosed dominance of social constructionism and the focus on language only.…”