Feminist new materialisms /
Feminist new materialisms are a porous field influenced by feminist science and technology studies, the environmental humanities, the thought of Gilles Deleuze and Fľix Guattari, transgender and queer studies, and affect studies. In qualitative research, the feminist new materialisms are often linke...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
SAGE Publications Ltd.,
2020.
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| Series: | Theoretical foundations of qualitative research.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Feminist new materialisms are a porous field influenced by feminist science and technology studies, the environmental humanities, the thought of Gilles Deleuze and Fľix Guattari, transgender and queer studies, and affect studies. In qualitative research, the feminist new materialisms are often linked to discussions of the posthuman, object-oriented ontology, and the ontological or vital materialist turn. As these theoretical turns are activated in qualitative research, they in turn upset classical notions of positivism, directly implicate researchers in the research process, attune researchers' attention to more-than-human agents, challenge representationalism, and recognize that thinking-with theoretical concepts is also "empirical" research. While feminist new materialisms sound like they are a subset of what commonly circulates as the "new materialisms" (minus the feminism), new materialisms without feminisma feminism that attends ... |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781529746808 1529746809 9781526421036 1526421038 |