A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book

Introduction




AuthorsTiainen, Milla; Belgrano Laasonen, Elisabeth; Tarvainen, Anne

EditorsBelgrano, Elisabeth; Tarvainen, Anne; Tiainen, Milla

PublisherRoutledge

Publication year2025

Book title Mattering Voices: Studying Voice through New Materialisms

First page 1

Last page34

ISBN978-1-03-248002-2

eISBN978-1-00-339099-2

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.4324/9781003390992-1

Publication's open availability at the time of reportingNo Open Access

Publication channel's open availability No Open Access publication channel

Web address https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003390992-1


Abstract

This introductory chapter clarifies the focus and aims of the book. It discusses how mutually constitutive, intra-active, relations between transdisciplinary voice studies and new materialisms can enrich the understanding of how voices matter: materialize into diverse events and practices and acquire different meanings. We argue that studying voice through new materialisms opens up novel ways of exploring the active and relationally forming materiality of voicings, but also the wider material, sociocultural, human, and more-than-human relationships and world-makings in which voices emerge, affording modes of being, agency, and knowing. The introduction situates the topics explored in the volume and the approaches of the individual chapters in relation to the field and existing findings of voice studies. It also outlines the ways in which new materialisms are understood and practiced in the book.



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