New Materialism and Intersectionality : Making Middles Matter

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Introduction: Making Middles Matter: Feminist and Gender Studies In-Between Intersectionality and New Materialisms
	Putting Forward a Concept of the Middle
	Beginning to Work With the Middle
	Addressing the Friction Between Intersectionality and Feminist New Materialisms
	Revisiting Intersectionality, Acknowledging Implicit Approaches
	Offerings of Feminist New Materialisms
	Sections and Chapters in the Middle
	Acknowledgements
	References
Part I Non-Anthropocentric Intersectionality
	1 With a Flip of a Light Switch: A Socio-Environmental Understanding of Intersectional Power Relations
		A Socio-Environmental Approach
		Relational Constitution of Power
		Structuring of Relational Operations of Power
		Causality of Intersectional Dynamics
		Power-full Embodiment
		Affective Dimensions of Intersectional Power Relations
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	2 In the Middle of It All: Plants, History, and Feminist Encounters in Central Europe
		Plant Storytellers
		Cultivating the Middle
		Sea Buckthorn Juice
		Lost (And Found) in Translation: Grappling With Theory, the Plant Way
		Notes
		References
	3 Allergic Encounters in Contact Zones: Rethinking Intersectionality Through Debility and Trans-Corporeality
		Introduction
		Rethinking Allergies and the Immune System Through a Feminist New Materialist Approach
		Debility and Trans-Corporeality: On Socio-Materiality of Debility
		Debilitated Gendered Body as a Meeting Place
		Conclusion
		Acknowledgements
		Notes
		References
Part II Makings of Race in the Middle
	4 Beyond Narratives of Newness, Abandonment, Loss, and Return: An Emergent Discussion Between Feminist New Materialisms, Posthumanities, and Intersectionality
		Introduction
		Situated Knowledges and Arriving at an Intersection
		Methodological Possibilities and Enriching the Conceptual Frameworks of Intersecting FNM and Intersectionality Studies
		Matters of Race: On Power, Agency, and Socio-Political Change
		Localising Feminist New Materialisms: On Methodological Challenges and Futures
		References
	5 Assemblage Converters
		Intersectional Assemblages
		Baroque Transsexuals in Empire
		Transdisciplinarity Becomes Transversality
		Notes
		References
	6 Everybody Waits But Waits Differently: A Methodological Account of Waiting as an Intersectional Matter of Quotidian Socio-Political Middlings
		In the Middle of New Materialist and Intersectional Attention
		Waiting Is No Passive Matter
		Waiting in a Queue
		Waiting Is No Personal Matter Either: It Is Political
		Walking as Waiting, Waiting With One’s Feet and Stomach
		Waiting, a Phenomenon of Middles and Intersections, But Not an a Priori Intersectional One
		Acknowledgements
		Note
		References
Part III Responsible Relationalities
	7 Writing Exercises in the Middle: Towards Healing Methodologies
		One Possible Introduction: Middling Earthling-Sámi-Finn-Becoming-Different-And-(And-And), Summer 2019
		In the Middle We Start, Fall 2019
		Sometimes Writing Is Not Easy, Spring 2020
		Writing About/with Living in the Middle, Spring 2020
		Coming to Write [and Speak Out, as a Manifesto of Naivety] (With Cixous, Again), Spring 2022
		Towards Healing Methodologies, Or a Testimony/summary at the End, Or in the Middle We Stop for this Time/space/article and Publish, November 2023
		Notes
		References
	8 A Critical Cartography of the Mattering(s) of Identity Politics: Intersectional and Interferential Explorations
		Introduction: The Complex Mattering(s) of Identity and Identity Politics
		Identity Matters: Lived, Politicised, and Instrumentalised
		Materialist Identity Theories: Cartographical Constellations
		Critical Materialisms and Identity
		Identity Politics 1.0: Intersectional Conceptualisations
		Identity Politics 2.0: Queer Intersectional Conceptualisations
		Identity (Micro)politics 3.0: Assemblage- and Interference-Focused Perspectives
		Conclusion: Visionary Intersectional and Interferential Explorations
		Notes
		References
	9 Can Middling Foster New Feminist Coalitions?: On Transgender, Race, and Ethics of Unease
		Frictions Between Trans- and Radical Feminisms
		Queer-femme-inist Discontents: Reciprocal Acts of Misgendering
		Queer Femme-Inist Disidentification and Unease
		Transgender, Transracial? Frictions in Analogizing Approaches to Intersectionality
		Towards an Ethics of Unease
		Middling Between Intersectional and New Materialist Approaches
		For Alliance-Building Through Transversal Conversations
		Notes
		References
	10 Tangible T/hereness and Affective Middles in Memory Work: Experiences of Temporality in Birthing-Stories of Laestadian Women
		Introduction
		Inhabited Labour Pains and Pauses in Birthing-Stories
		Dividuality and Liminal Experiences of Birthing-Bodies
		At the Intersections of Birthing, Storytelling, and Affective Middles
		Concluding Notes
		Acknowledgements
		Note
		References
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