Sexuality-Assemblages, Hyphens, and the In-Between
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Ingram, Toni
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Sexuality-assemblages emphasize a relational more-than-human approach to conceptualizing the becoming of sexuality. This article brings together Fine’s notion of “working the hyphen” with a new materialist ontology of sexuality, to explore the space and form of the hyphen within the sexuality-assemblage. In “working” the sexuality-assemblage hyphen, I explore the onto-epistemological space it inhabits, who or what is implicated at this material and metaphorical juncture, and how this shapes the production of knowledge about sexuality. More than a simple connecting device between words, the hyphen is conceptualized as a metonym for the dynamic space in-between assembled elements. The hyphen-space is generative and capacious, enacting important onto-epistemological understandings about research(er) “objectivity,” response-ability and ethics integral to a new materialist becoming of sexualities research. More broadly, I consider how a new materialist ontology shapes the form of the hyphen itself, elaborating the view that even the smallest of marks can matter.Description
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1301 Education Systems, 1303 Specialist Studies in Education, 1608 Sociology, Social Sciences Methods, 3904 Specialist studies in education, 4405 Gender studies, 4410 Sociology
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Qualitative Inquiry, ISSN: 1077-8004 (Print); 1077-8004 (Online), SAGE Publications.
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