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New Materialism, Micropolitics and the Everyday Production of Gender-Related Violence

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  • Nick J. Fox

    (Department of Behavioural and Social Sciences, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield HD1 1DH, UK)

  • Pam Alldred

    (School of Social Work, Social Care and Communities, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham NG1 4FQ, UK)

Abstract

This paper assesses how a new materialist ontology can inform the sociological study of gender-related violence (GRV). The new materialisms are relational rather than essentialist; post-anthropocentric as opposed to humanist; and replace dualisms such as agency/structure, reason/emotion and micro/macro with a monist or ‘flat’ ontology. To make sense of GRV from within this ontology, we explore violence as assemblages of human and non-human matter and draw upon the DeleuzoGuattarian micropolitical concepts of ‘the war machine’ and ‘lines of flight’. While violence may supply a protagonist with new capacities (a line of flight), it typically closes down or constrains the capacities of one or more other parties in a violence-assemblage. This theoretical exploration establishes the basis for a methodological approach to studying GRV empirically, using a Deleuzian toolkit of affects, assemblages, capacities and micropolitics. The paper concludes with an assessment of what is gained from this new materialist ontology of GRV.

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  • Nick J. Fox & Pam Alldred, 2022. "New Materialism, Micropolitics and the Everyday Production of Gender-Related Violence," Social Sciences, MDPI, vol. 11(9), pages 1-16, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jscscx:v:11:y:2022:i:9:p:380-:d:896237
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