How Does Ambivalence Appear in Women’s Relationship to Cosmetics?

Spezzacatena, Marina; Marsico, Giuseppina

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“…With no predetermined outcomes. Such a scenario can be investigated through beautification practices of makeup users and non-users women whose ambivalence with “the minimal mask” (Spezzacatena & Marsico, 2021) goes hand in hand with their ambivalence toward “natural face.” This is a further example of daily practice that psychology should embrace in order to elaborate embodiment as a constant natural decolonization (see also Traversa, 2021c).…”

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Once Upon a Time, Materiality: A Possible Scenario for Psychology in the Nature/culture Divide

Traversa

2022

Culture & Psychology

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The present essay draws on the book “What if Culture was Nature All Along?” (Eds. Vicki Kirby, 2017) and on Karen Barad’s influence to discuss some main concepts of the so-called new materialism in social sciences and humanities over the last decade. It will bring the reader to come across the nature/culture divide as something inherently incorrect from an ontological point of view. Moreover, through different case-studies ranging from allergy, race, paternal post-natal depression, etc. I intend to give some insights into the most controversial and the most insightful attempts to see culture as nothing outside biology in social sciences, and psychology as well. I will then argue how Kirby’s and Barad’s perspective can be a good starting point to re-think critical theory and power-relations as always enmeshed in tangibility, and I will suggest some more empirical patterns for a new material psychological knowledge.

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Section: Which Materiality For a (New) Psychology?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Once Upon a Time, Materiality: A Possible Scenario for Psychology in the Nature/culture Divide

Traversa

2022

Culture & Psychology

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How Does Ambivalence Appear in Women’s Relationship to Cosmetics?

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Once Upon a Time, Materiality: A Possible Scenario for Psychology in the Nature/culture Divide

Once Upon a Time, Materiality: A Possible Scenario for Psychology in the Nature/culture Divide

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