2017
DOI: 10.1080/13676261.2017.1316362
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Young bodies, power and resistance: a new materialist perspective

Abstract: Portrayals of young people as either victims or perpetrators of errant, aberrant or even dangerous attitudes, desires or behaviours may be criticised for obscuring the relations of power within which young bodies are socially and physically located. However, notions of 'resistance' to power within these critiques remain under-theorised. In this theoretical paper we take a new materialist approach to explore the affectivity of young bodies, and the flows and intensities that produce and reproduce power and resi… Show more

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“…They engage in creative imaginings in attempting to map the entanglements, assemblages, dynamics of power, and becomings that are represented in research participants' words and practices [5,50]. The key research inquiries that provide inspiration and impetus for new materialism empirical researchers include a focus on identifying what bodies can do [51,52], adopting an analytic that pays attention to the flows of affective forces, relational connections, and micropolitics [4,16] which give vitality and power to assemblages.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…They engage in creative imaginings in attempting to map the entanglements, assemblages, dynamics of power, and becomings that are represented in research participants' words and practices [5,50]. The key research inquiries that provide inspiration and impetus for new materialism empirical researchers include a focus on identifying what bodies can do [51,52], adopting an analytic that pays attention to the flows of affective forces, relational connections, and micropolitics [4,16] which give vitality and power to assemblages.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…New materialist analysis has been criticised for sometimes lacking direct attention to power relations and social inequalities [15]. In response, it has been argued that analysis should be attuned to the micropolitics of power as enabling and vitalising, as well as constraining [5,16]. It is here that identifying the capacities and forces generated with and through technologies like apps is important.…”
Section: Theoretical Background: Feminist Materialismmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In concert with these interests in the materiality of human experience, new materialisms scholarship has gradually been taken up in empirical social research on health-related topics. Actor–network theory and Deleuzian approaches have dominated in this literature thus far (e.g., Alldred & Fox, 2017; Fox, 2017). Publications presenting qualitative analyses of health with more emphasis on new feminist materialism theory have only very recently begun to appear.…”
Section: Feminist Materialism and Empirical Health Researchmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…More specifically, it foregrounds entanglements or assemblages over individual entities, where an assemblage, under a new materialist framework, means a 'multiplicity of heterogeneous objects' -for instance, events, bodies, objects, practices, ideas and memories -'whose unity comes solely from the fact that these items function together, that they "work" together as a functional entity' (Patton as cited in Haggerty and Ericson, 2000: 608). In addition, new materialists stress that every assemblage also comprises a territory that is always being both produced and contested by a variety of affective connections (Alldred and Fox, 2017; also see Deleuze and Guattari, 1988). 2 As a critical approach, then, new materialism strives (a) to reveal the territorialising connections constituting (and disrupting) assemblages; (b) to trace the capacities (and constraints) they produce in bodies, collectivities and social formations and (c) to examine the various effects of these capacities and constraints (Fox and Alldred, 2016).…”
Section: New Materialism Materials and Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%