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Fox, N.J. and Alldred, P. 
ORCID: 0000-0002-5077-7286,
2021.
Bodies, non-human matter and the micropolitical production of sociomaterial dis/advantage.
Journal of Sociology.
ISSN 1440-7833
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Abstract
This paper sets out a more-than-human framework within which to explore the contribution of non-human matter to social inequality. Applying an approach based in Deleuzian ethology, we extend three invitations: to address the multiplicity and fluidity of dis/advantage, to explore its production in everyday interactions, and to acknowledge non-human as well as human matter in the emergence of dis/advantage. The paper examines how the interactions between human and non-human matter produce and reproduce context-specific bodily capacities and incapacities, and consequently ‘a thousand tiny dis/advantages’. These dis/advantages may accumulate to produce substantive inequalities and social divisions. An illustrative re-reading of Paul Willis’s (1977) study of the cultural reproduction of social inequality Learning to Labour reveals the complex ways in which daily encounters between human and non-human matter produce both transient and lasting dis/advantage. We conclude with a discussion of the implications of this more-than-human perspective for the sociological study of inequality.
| Item Type: | Journal article | ||||||
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| Publication Title: | Journal of Sociology | ||||||
| Creators: | Fox, N.J. and Alldred, P. | ||||||
| Publisher: | SAGE Publications | ||||||
| Date: | 16 April 2021 | ||||||
| ISSN: | 1440-7833 | ||||||
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| Rights: | © The Author(s) 2021. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). | ||||||
| Divisions: | Schools > School of Social Sciences | ||||||
| Record created by: | Linda Sullivan | ||||||
| Date Added: | 21 Apr 2021 14:53 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 31 May 2021 15:03 | ||||||
| URI: | https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/42740 |
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