Materiality-critique-transformation: challenging the political in feminist new materialisms

The rise of new materialisms in feminist debates since the late 2000s is often marked by a spirit of enthusiasm - a sense of excitement is tangible in many of the texts convening under the labels of new materialism. 'Something is stirring. Calls for attention are heard from within. Visceral movements resonate from within the belly of the beast of academia. They beckon us from inside the humanities and the natural sciences. ... Stirrings are felt more widely as well, from the world within and around us' (Asberg et al., 2011: 218). Scholars involved in these debates on a 'turn' to the material and a 'move' beyond the human (as 'Man' and ...