Becoming Otherwise. Embodied Thinking and the Transformative Matter in New Feminist Materialist Theorizing

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Theorizing is Worlding: Teaching New Feminist Materialisms in Contemporary Feminist Theory Courses

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Teaching withFeminist Materialisms

 
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Teaching WithFeminist Materialisms

Teaching with Gender. European Women’s Studies inInternational and Interdisciplinary Classrooms.

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The Thresholds Project at Utrecht University: New Materialist Rethinkings of Subjectivity and Objectivity

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

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Diffractive Pedagogies: dancing through Materialist Imaginaries by Anna Hickey Moody, Helen Palmer and Esther Sayers

This paper outlines the affirmative potential of diffractive pedagogies, presenting learning through dance as its central empirical focus. Drawing on data from the university classroom and new materialist scholarship, we consider the problem of learning through the body for university students. We argue that embodied creative processes within pedagogical contexts can liberate those who learn from reproducing, or being reproduced, as the finite set of reductive yet historically determined and governed images, figures or metaphors assigned to them. Building on a feminist investment in the agency of materiality we think through the problem of the body as a site of learning in the university. Learning in higher education is popularly thought as pertaining to the transfer of abstract knowledge, and this process typically occurs in ways that largely ignore the physicality of learning. A pedagogical system which presents repeated structures and patterns of discourse as more valued vehicles for learning than experimentation and creation recognises only preconceived, representational models of thought and expression. This philosophical imaginary therefore requires reconfiguring, to allow for embodied and creative learning processes that are open-ended, nomadic and affirmative.

Location: Hickey-Moody, A., Palmer, H. & Sayers, E. (2016) Diffractive Pedagogies: Dancing Through Materialist Imaginaries. Gender and Education Vol. 27. 6.

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V New Materialist Conference: New Materialist methodologies: Gender, Politics and the Digital

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The theory of new materialism is traversing many disciplines of knowledge: from quantum physics to art theory. This allows a search for a common ground for interdisciplinary studies. In addition, these theoretical approaches are proving themselves as a suitable “ethic-onto-epistemological” framework (Barad, 2007) that permits the examination of social phenomena from multidimensional perspectives, alongside offering new ways to theorize and challenge the divisions between matter and discourse, nature and culture, etc. However, the methodological parameters of these approaches remain underdeveloped and somewhat unclear especially when related to feminist theories and politics. New materialism has been coined as a “third wave feminist epistemology” (van der Tuin, 2009) in the present globalized information society, and it is because of this that a profound reassessment of some of the core research concepts is needed if these ways of theorizing want to configure themselves as an alternative to social constructivist approaches specifically in the context of digital cultures and political engagement. To these methodological concerns, we have included ‘gender’, ‘politics’ and ‘the digital’ because of their centrality in scholarly debates produced in feminist journals and scholarship. The terms also remain key for contemporary feminist practice. Can we still consider gender as a key concept for feminist politics? How is social change conceived of and produced within a new materialist framework? How is digital inter-connectedness  affecting/affected by new materialisms, and most importantly different forms of life?

To encourage theoretical and empirical queries along these lines, the V annual conference on the new materialisms at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Barcelona) invites scholars and postgraduate students to submit proposals for 20 minute presentations in reference to four concepts: gender, politics, methodologies, and the digital. Even though the conference focuses around four different concepts, the aim is not to offer prescriptive definitions of these terms. Rather, we hope that the concepts will be opened up and reconnected with each other in ways that enable the study of differing processes of reality’s unfolding.