{"id":98,"date":"2020-05-09T08:04:02","date_gmt":"2020-05-09T07:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/urbterr\/?p=98"},"modified":"2020-05-09T08:04:02","modified_gmt":"2020-05-09T07:04:02","slug":"the-challenges-and-pleasures-of-working-with-new-feminist-materialist-theories-8-may-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/urbterr\/2020\/05\/09\/the-challenges-and-pleasures-of-working-with-new-feminist-materialist-theories-8-may-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"The Challenges and Pleasures of Working with New Feminist Materialist Theories (8 May 2020)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This workshop sought to offer a friendly and supportive discussion platform for researchers and practicioners with an interest in feminist new materialist theories and the work of Karen Barad in particular. We started with an informal lecture by Dr Magdalena G\u00f3rska (Assistant Professor at the Graduate Gender Program, Department of Media and Culture Studies, Utrecht University, NL), who discussed how she has used Karen Barad\u2019s work in the context of her research on breathing. By analysing the material and discursive as well as the natural and cultural enactments of breath in black lung disease, phone sex work, and anxieties and panic attacks, Magda G\u00f3rska\u2019s monograph <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diva-portal.org\/smash\/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A930676&amp;dswid=-7722\"><em>Breathing Matters: Feminist Intersectional Politics of Vulnerability<\/em><\/a> proposes a nonuniversalizing and politicized understanding of embodiment and affect. Then, participants had the opportunity to ask questions and discuss their experiences working with new feminist materialist theories.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Challenges and Pleasures of Working with New Feminist Materialist Theories - with Magda Gorska\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3gLft00r1pw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This workshop sought to offer a friendly and supportive discussion platform for researchers and practicioners with an interest in feminist new materialist theories and the work of Karen Barad in particular. We started with an informal lecture by Dr Magdalena G\u00f3rska (Assistant Professor at the Graduate Gender Program, Department of Media and Culture Studies, Utrecht &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/urbterr\/2020\/05\/09\/the-challenges-and-pleasures-of-working-with-new-feminist-materialist-theories-8-may-2020\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Challenges and Pleasures of Working with New Feminist Materialist Theories (8 May 2020)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":414,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5,4,6],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-karen-barad","tag-new-materialism","tag-workshop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/urbterr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/urbterr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/urbterr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/urbterr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/414"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/urbterr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/urbterr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/urbterr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions\/100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/urbterr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/urbterr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/urbterr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}