Young bodies, power and resistance: a new materialist perspective

Alldred, Pam; Fox, Nick J.

doi:10.1080/13676261.2017.1316362

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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.…”

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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%

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‘I Just Want It to Be Done, Done, Done!’ Food Tracking Apps, Affects, and Agential Capacities

Lupton

2018

MTI

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Food-tracking apps constitute a major category of the thousands of food-related apps now available. They are promoted as helping users monitor and measure their food consumption to improve their health or to lose weight. In this article, I present six vignettes drawn from interviews with Australian women about their use and non-use of food-tracking apps. The vignettes provide detailed insights into the experiences of these women and their broader sociocultural and biographical contexts. The analysis is based on feminist materialism theoretical perspectives, seeking to identify the relational connections, affective forces, and agential capacities generated in and through the human-app assemblage. The vignettes reveal that affective forces related to the desire to control and manage the body and conform to norms and ideals about good health and body weight inspire people to try food-tracking apps. However, the agential capacities promised by app developers may not be generated even when people have committed hope and effort in using the app. Frustration, disappointment, the fear of becoming too controlled, and annoyance or guilt evoked by the demands of the app can be barriers to continued and successful use. Sociocultural and biographical contexts and relational connections are also central to the capacities of human-app assemblages. Women's ambivalences about using apps as part of efforts to control their body weight are sited within their struggles to conform to accepted ideals of physical appearance but also their awareness that these struggles may be too limiting of their agency. This analysis, therefore, draws attention to what a body can and cannot do as it comes together with food tracking apps.

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Section: Theoretical Background: Feminist Materialismmentioning

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‘I Just Want It to Be Done, Done, Done!’ Food Tracking Apps, Affects, and Agential Capacities

Lupton

2018

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“…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%

Toward a More-Than-Human Analysis of Digital Health: Inspirations From Feminist New Materialism

Lupton

2019

Qual Health Res

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New feminist materialism theories potentially offer a foundation for innovative ways to research health-related experiences from a more-than-human perspective. Thus far, however, few researchers have taken up this more-than-human and post-qualitative approach to investigate health topics. In this article, I outline some approaches I have developed. I begin with a brief overview of the central tenets of new feminist materialism scholarship and a discussion of some empirical studies where these perspectives have been employed to address health topics. I then list some key propositions, research questions, and things to think with from the feminist materialism literature that I have put to work as a basis for conducting empirical research and analyzing data. Then follows four examples drawn from my research on digital health, providing instances of how qualitative researchers can take up this approach and what insights can be generated from entering into this kind of “research assemblage.”

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“…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

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Becoming activist: the mediation of consumers in Animals Australia’s Make it Possible campaign

Mummery

Rodan

2019

Media International Australia

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In 2008, the Australian Law Reform Commission journal, Reform, called out animal welfare as Australia’s ‘next great social justice movement’ in 2018; however, public mobilisation around animal welfare is still a contested issue in Australia. The question stands as to how to mobilise everyday mainstream consumers into supporting animal activism given that animal activism is presented in the public sphere as dampening the economic livelihood of Australia, with some animal activism described as ‘akin to terrorism’. The questions, then, are as follows: how to mobilise everyday mainstream consumers into supporting animal activist ideals? How to frame and communicate animal activist ideals so that they can come to inform and change the behaviour and self-understandings of mainstream consumers? This article is an investigation into the possible production and mobilisation of animal activists from mainstream consumers through the work of one digital campaign, Make it Possible. Delivered by the peak Australian animal advocacy organisation, Animals Australia, and explicitly targeting the lived experiences and conditions of animals in factory farming, Make it Possible reached nearly 12 million viewers across Australia and has directly impacted on the reported behaviour and self-understandings of over 291,000 Australians to date, as well as impacting policy decisions made by government and industry. More specifically, our interest is to engage a new materialist lens to draw out how this campaign operates to transform consumers into veg*ns (vegans/vegetarians), activists and ethical consumers who materially commit to and live revised beliefs regarding human–animal relations.

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Young bodies, power and resistance: a new materialist perspective

Cited by 33 publications

References 43 publications

‘I Just Want It to Be Done, Done, Done!’ Food Tracking Apps, Affects, and Agential Capacities

‘I Just Want It to Be Done, Done, Done!’ Food Tracking Apps, Affects, and Agential Capacities

Toward a More-Than-Human Analysis of Digital Health: Inspirations From Feminist New Materialism

Becoming activist: the mediation of consumers in Animals Australia’s Make it Possible campaign

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