- Title
- What can methods do? Using drama methods to explore the embodiment of gender on campus
- Creator
- Coffey, Julia; Cahill, Helen
- Relation
- MAI: Feminism and Visual Culture Vol. 1, Issue 4
- Relation
- https://maifeminism.com/what-can-methods-do-using-drama-methods-to-explore-embodiment-of-gender-on-campus/
- Publisher
- Mai
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2019
- Description
- Feminist new materialist (Taylor & Ivinson 2013; van der Tuin 2014; Fox & Alldred 2015; St. Pierre; Jackson et al. 2016) and non-representational (Thrift 2004; Vannini 2015) ‘styles’ of theory and research are burgeoning in the intersecting fields of education, sociology, and visual and cultural studies. These approaches extend from the post-structural focus on discourses as the basis for subjectivity and social life, and draw from the ‘vitalist’ philosophies of Deleuze and Guattari (1987), along with Barad’s (2007) theories of agential realism on the intra-active constitution of matter; and Braidotti’s (2013) theories of post-humanism to revalue the importance of matter in human practices (Edwards & Fenwick 2014). These perspectives also re-frame the question of social construction to one of production, moving away from social constructivist views of bodies as relatively passive expressions of socio-cultural orders and structures, to explore bodies themselves as lively and dynamic processes which are productive of the social world. Feminist new materialist perspectives direct attention to the ways in which ‘material things act on and with us’ to produce human practices (Taylor & Ivinson 2013: 689) in an effort to account more fully for the complex processes by which social ‘realities’ come to be, and could be otherwise (Houle 2011). This theoretical perspective encourages recognition of the intra-action between the human and the non-human, incorporating the relationships between forces, events, material objects and humans, insisting on the ‘meaning, force, and value of materiality’ (Alaimo & Hekman 2008: 10).
- Subject
- methods; drama; gender; campus
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1464397
- Identifier
- uon:46984
- Identifier
- ISSN:2003-167X
- Language
- eng
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