What is new in new materialism for a newcomer?

Monforte, Javier

doi:10.1080/2159676x.2018.1428678

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“…These are roles that landscape researchers and ecologists are well placed to develop. Microbioscape research could also incorporate other ontologies such as new materialism, for example, to explore how ‘ relational networks or assemblages of the animate and inanimate’ may produce the world (Fox & Alldred, 2015, p. 1; Monforte, 2018). This could lead to additional lines of socioecological enquiry and novel approaches to understanding the environment–microbiome–health axis in the future.…”

Section: Theme 3: Communication and Visualizationmentioning

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Rekindling old friendships in new landscapes: The environment–microbiome–health axis in the realms of landscape research

Robinson

Jørgensen

2020

People and Nature

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1. Humans are spending less time in biodiverse environments, and according to the Old Friends and Biodiversity hypotheses, this has led to fewer interactions with diverse immunoregulatory micro-organisms or 'old friends'.2. Non-communicable diseases such as asthma and inflammatory bowel disease are on the rise, and the development and progression of these 'modern' diseases may be attributed in part, to the breakdown of this evolutionary relationship between humans and environmental microbiota.3. There is a growing interest in the environment-microbiome-health axis as a mechanism to explain some of the health benefits linked to spending time in nature.4. This may provide a platform for proposing a new, holistic and transdisciplinary approach to public and environmental health.5. The field of landscape research-which combines social and natural sciencesresponds to emerging socioecological issues and can make a significant contribution towards this approach.6. This paper explores innovative, landscape research-based approaches to understanding the complex relationships between the environment, the microbiome and human health. 7. Transdisciplinarity will play an important role moving forward. This forms a major discussion point in this paper, along with future research directions, key research questions and novel concepts supported by recent technological advancements.8. The development of a new field of study-Microbioscape Research as a crossover between microbiome science and landscape research-is also discussed.

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Section: Theme 3: Communication and Visualizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Rekindling old friendships in new landscapes: The environment–microbiome–health axis in the realms of landscape research

Robinson

Jørgensen

2020

People and Nature

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“…I am not, by any means, the only one experimenting with new materialist approaches in the socio-cultural study of sport. While this type of inquiry is relatively absent in the current scholarship of physical culture, there are some recent calls to engage with the material turn in sport and physical cultural studies research (e.g., Fullagar, 2017;Larsson, 2014;Larsson & Quennerstedt, 2012;Thorpe, 2014) and some examples of empirical engagement with new materiality (e.g., Monforte, 2018;Andrews, Thorpe, & Newman, forthcoming). While their interpretations of new materialism differ, these researchers offer openings to others interested in this type of approach to physically active body.…”

Section: Towards Post-humanism: New Theoretical Tools To Capture Matementioning

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What is New About New Materialism for Sport Sociology? Reflections on Body, Movement, and Culture

Markula

2019

Sociology of Sport Journal

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The new material turn in social sciences and humanities has drawn attention to how the material interacts with the social in the world where both human and non-human actors produce power relations. To include the material objects and their environments within the social analysis, new materialists argue for a new onto-epistemology that departs from the humanist social constructionism. To explore what this might mean for sport sociologists, I discuss three themes characterizing the new materialism: the focus on processes of materiality, post-humanist tools needed to engage with the material processes, and postqualitative research methodologies and ways of representation that include the material world. I advocate studying the body in motion as a unique focus for socio-cultural scholars of physical activity who can connect the material with the social into research that matters in the contemporary world.

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“…Although a full account of these issues is beyond the scope of this paper (see Braun 2015 for a more comprehensive overview) there are two key implications of the New Materialist paradigm that we would like to highlight here. Firstly, in understanding the participant's responses as the product of an 'emergent, immanent relationality' (Monforte 2018: 3), we were keen to share our transcripts with the participants, encouraging them, where possible to comment on their narratives and contribute to their ongoing representation. In doing so, we were acknowledging both their ability to affect and their influence within the wider research-assemblage.…”

Section: Situating Trail Builders Within More-than-human Researchmentioning

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Spectres of Nature in the Trail Building Assemblage

Cherrington

Black

2019

Int J Sociol Leis

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Through research that was conducted with mountain bike trail builders, this article explores the processes by which socio-natures or 'emergent ecologies' are formed through the assemblage of trail building, mountain bike riding and matter. In moving conversations about 'Nature' beyond essentialist readings and dualistic thinking, we consider how ecological sensibilities are reflected in the complex, lived realities of the trail building community. Specifically, we draw on Morton's (2017) notion of the 'symbiotic real' to examine how participants connect with a range of objects and non-humans, revealing a 'spectral' existence in which they take pleasure in building material features that are only partially of their creation. Such 'tuning' to the symbiotic real was manifest in the ongoing battle that the trail builders maintained with water. This battle not only emphasized the fragility of their trail construction but also the temporal significance of the environments that these creations were rendered in/with. In conclusion, we argue that these findings present an ecological awareness that views nature as neither static, inert or fixed, but instead, as a temporal 'nowness', formed from the ambiguity of being in and with nature. Ecologically, this provides a unique form of orientation that re-establishes the ambiguity between humans and nature, without privileging the former. It is set against this ecological (un)awareness that we believe a reorientation can be made to our understandings of leisure, the Anthropocene and the nature-culture dyad.

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What is new in new materialism for a newcomer?

Cited by 55 publications

References 53 publications

Rekindling old friendships in new landscapes: The environment–microbiome–health axis in the realms of landscape research

Rekindling old friendships in new landscapes: The environment–microbiome–health axis in the realms of landscape research

What is New About New Materialism for Sport Sociology? Reflections on Body, Movement, and Culture

Spectres of Nature in the Trail Building Assemblage

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