Creating Subjectivities

Blackman, Lisa; Cromby, John; Hook, Derek; Papadopoulos, Dimitrios; Walkerdine, Valerie

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“…Like other theorists of the body (Akrich & Pasveer, 2004;Blackman, Cromby, Hook, Papadopoulos, & Walkerdine, 2008), Scarry is concerned with understanding how embodiment and subjectivity intertwine, how the experience of pain affects subjectivity, how subjectivity is produced in and through the infliction of pain, and how pain desubjectifies the victim (Lee, 2005).…”

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Children’s embodied experience of living with domestic violence: “I’d go into my panic, and shake, really bad”

2016

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Children who experience domestic violence are often described in academic and professional literature as passive victims, whose 'exposure' to violence and abuse at home leaves them psychologically damaged, socially impaired, inarticulate, cognitively 'concrete' and emotionally 'incompetent'. Whilst we recognise the importance of understanding the hurt, disruption and damage that domestic violence can cause, we also explore alternative possible ways of talking about and thinking about the lives of children who have experienced domestic violence. We report on interviews and drawings with 27 UK children, using interpretive analysis to explore their capacity for agency and resistance. We explore the paradoxical interplay of children's acceptance and resistance to coercive control, paying specific attention to embodied experience and use of space. We consider how children articulate their experiences of pain and coercion, how they position themselves as embodied and affective subjects, and challenge Scarry's (1985) suggestion that embodied pain and violence are inexpressible. Keywords domestic violence, interpersonal violence, children, embodiment, child witness, children exposed to domestic violence

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Children’s embodied experience of living with domestic violence: “I’d go into my panic, and shake, really bad”

2016

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“…In popular culture, the sculpture has come to symbolize the (gendered) subjectivity of genius, an autonomous, pure and purely individual (male) subject, an ideal worthy of emulation. In line with former volumes of Subjectivity (for example, Blackman et al, 2008), this special issue challenges such individualistic and mentalist visions of the human and contributes to a contextual understanding of human subjectivity.Of the multiplicity of aspects that have to be taken into account when exploring subjectivity, this special issue goes beyond a focus on the social and societal world and bare human interrelations, and scrutinizes the material world and relations between social beings and technologies, things and materials. Our aim is to invite readers to engage in a broad discussion on how to systematically include technology and materiality in the study of subjectivity.…”

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Exploring sociomaterial mediations of human subjectivity

Schraube

Sørensen

2013

Subjectivity

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Auguste Rodin's bronze sculpture Le Penseur (The Thinker) from 1902 presented an image of Dante deep in thought, pondering The Divine Comedy. The naked sculpture emphasizes how Dante's heroic mind created this masterpiece independently, solely equipped with his bare human faculties, without instruments, without techniques, without social relations, even without clothing. In popular culture, the sculpture has come to symbolize the (gendered) subjectivity of genius, an autonomous, pure and purely individual (male) subject, an ideal worthy of emulation. In line with former volumes of Subjectivity (for example, Blackman et al, 2008), this special issue challenges such individualistic and mentalist visions of the human and contributes to a contextual understanding of human subjectivity.Of the multiplicity of aspects that have to be taken into account when exploring subjectivity, this special issue goes beyond a focus on the social and societal world and bare human interrelations, and scrutinizes the material world and relations between social beings and technologies, things and materials. Our aim is to invite readers to engage in a broad discussion on how to systematically include technology and materiality in the study of subjectivity. To stimulate that debate, we have collected six articles in this special issue that are each deeply involved with the theoretical, epistemological and empirical concerns of how subjectivity can be conceptualized and explored as a genuinely sociomaterial phenomenon. Together, the papers provide insights into how relations between the social and the material, and indeed the sociomaterial, can be approached, drawing on traditions of thought ranging from psychoanalysis, cultural-historical activity theory, critical psychologies, post-structuralism and feminist theories to science and technology studies (STS), actor-network theory (ANT), post-phenomenology and speculative philosophy. Aside from providing insights into individual approaches, we believe that the way these papers and approaches speak to r

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“…(see for instance Foucault, 1970;4 The degree of flexibility of individual humans to slip between different modes of subjectification and the parameters that may make various subject positions more-or-less available to a specific human being at a certain conjuncture, thus affecting the probability to enact new subjectivities which may conflict with already assimilated subjectivities, is one of the central questions of much psychological research. The specific nuances of this debate are beyond the scope of this paper, but see further Blackman et al (2008).…”

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Placing the Stakes: The Enactment of Territorial Stakeholders in Planning Processes

Metzger

2013

Environ Plan A

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Abstract:This paper is an investigation into processes of becoming-stakeholder. It specifically focuses on strategic spatial planning where the stakeholder concept has become one of the linchpins of much contemporary theory and practice. Through drawing upon the sociology of attachments and scholarship on subjectification it is argued that the enactment of stakeholders in strategic planning processes can be gainfully understood as the production of stakeholder subjectivities by way of practices of ontological choreography which can generate territorial attachments and re-articulate existing attachments into a specifically territorial format. From this perspective, stakeholderness is never an ontologically pre-given property that is to be uncovered by diligent analysis. Rather, we might come to see that stakeholder subjectification is a process through which actors learn to be affected, and where these affections further come to be articulated as territorial attachments engendering or at least prompting a 'caring for place'. Still, as relational effects, subjectivities are always potentially precarious achievements and it is important not to take for granted that the subjectivities enacted in a specific situation or setting will be easily transposable to other contexts.

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Creating Subjectivities

Cited by 257 publications

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Children’s embodied experience of living with domestic violence: “I’d go into my panic, and shake, really bad”

Children’s embodied experience of living with domestic violence: “I’d go into my panic, and shake, really bad”

Exploring sociomaterial mediations of human subjectivity

Placing the Stakes: The Enactment of Territorial Stakeholders in Planning Processes

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