Beyond narratives of newness, abandonment, loss, and return

: Deckha, Maneesha; Xin, Liu; Kontturi, Katve-Kaisa; Tiainen, Milla; Leppänen, Taru; Mehrabi, Tara

: Katve-Kaisa Kontturi, Taru Leppänen, Tara Mehrabi, Milla Tiainen

Publisher: Routledge

: 2025

: New Materialism and Intersectionality Making Middles Matter

: New Materialism and Intersectionality: Making Middles Matter

: 107

: 124

: 978-1-03-251801-5

: 978-1-00-340401-9

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003404019-7

: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003404019-7

In 2020, the editors of this volume, Katve-Kaisa Kontturi, Milla Tiainen, Taru Leppänen, and Tara Mehrabi, decided to dedicate one of the volume’s chapters to a discussion concerned with the main aim of the book, namely: exploring the potential and challenges of working with feminist new materialist and posthumanist theories and intersectionality studies through one another. This aim is reflected in the subtitle of the volume, making middles matter. It is in relation to this aim that the current chapter takes the form of an emergent written discussion between Maneesha Deckha and Liu Xin, two prominent scholars who have, in their respective fields of research, indeed explored and worked with feminist new materialism (FNM) and posthumanities theories and intersectionality studies through one another for several years.