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Fox, NJ and Alldred, P 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5077-7286,
2022.
New materialism, micropolitics and the everyday production of gender-related violence.
Social Sciences, 11 (9): 380.
ISSN 2076-0760
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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.
| Item Type: | Journal article |
|---|---|
| Publication Title: | Social Sciences |
| Creators: | Fox, N.J. and Alldred, P. |
| Publisher: | MDPI AG |
| Date: | 24 August 2022 |
| Volume: | 11 |
| Number: | 9 |
| ISSN: | 2076-0760 |
| Identifiers: | Number Type 10.3390/socsci11090380 DOI 1593760 Other |
| Rights: | © 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
| Divisions: | Schools > School of Social Sciences |
| Record created by: | Laura Ward |
| Date Added: | 30 Aug 2022 10:33 |
| Last Modified: | 30 Aug 2022 10:33 |
| URI: | https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/46930 |
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