Spinning Yarns: Affective Kinshipping as Posthuman Pedagogy

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Notes

1 See Ahmed, Living a Feminist Life; Gallop, Thinking Through the Body; Grumet, Bitter Milk; hooks, Teaching to Transgress; Ivinson, “The Body and Pedagogy” Pillow, Unfit Subjects; Narayan, “Working Together Across Difference” Springgay, “‘The Chinatown Foray’ as Sensational Pedagogies.”

2 Ringrose, “When Black Feminism Meets Canadian Women’s Studies” Donadey, “Negotiating tensions.”

3 Stewart, Ordinary Affects.

4 Ringrose, et al., “Feminist Posthuman and New Materialism Research Methodologies in Education: Capturing Affect.”

5 Massumi, Politics of Affect.

6 Haraway, Staying with the Trouble, 4.

7 Ellsworth, “Why Doesn’t this Feel Empowering?.”

8 See Todd, Jones and O’Donnell, “Shifting Education’s philosophical Imaginaries” Hohti, Riikka, “Time, Things, Teacher, Pupil” Davies, et al., “Recognition and Difference: A Collective Biography.”

9 See Stewart, Ordinary Affects; Geerts, Evelien and Iris van der Tuin, “From Intersectionality to Interference” Braidotti, The Posthuman.

10 Haraway, Staying with the Trouble, 12.

11 See Bennett, Vibrant Matter; Braidotti “Affirming the Affirmative” Braidotti, The Posthuman.; Brennan, The Transmission of Affect; Stewart, Ordinary Affects.

12 Haraway, “A Game of Cat’s Cradle,” 70.

13 Haraway, Staying with the Trouble, 132.

14 Haraway, “A Game of Cat’s Cradle,” 62.

15 Haraway, Staying with the Trouble, 143–144, italics in original.

16 Springgay, “Knitting as an Aesthetic of Civic Engagement.”

17 See Lenz-Taguchi, “Images of Thinking in Feminist Materialisms” Ringrose & Renold, “Mapping Affective Intensities in a Feminist Research Assemblage.”

18 Renold, “‘Feel what I feel’.”

19 See MacLure, “Classification or Wonder?” Ringrose and Renold, “Mapping Affective Intensities in a Feminist Research Assemblage” Jackson & Mazzei, Thinking with Theory in Qualitative Research; MacLure, “Classification or Wonder?”

20 Lenz Taguchi, “Images of Thinking,” 714.

21 See Puar, Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times; “‘I’d Rather be a Cyborg than a Goddess:’ Intersectionality, Assemblage, and Affective Politics” Puar et al., “Q & A.”

22 Haraway, Staying with the Trouble, 131.

23 Puar, et al., “Q & A.”

24 Tsing, Friction.

25 Lykke, “Feminist Studies”; Ringrose, “Differences”.

26 Haraway, Staying with the Trouble, 136.

27 Barad, “Posthuman Performativity,” 817.

28 Haraway, Staying with the Trouble, 1.

29 Nxumalo, et al., “Entangled Dialogues on Learning how to Inherit Colonized and Damaged Lifeworlds.”

30 Haraway, Staying with the Trouble, 37.

31 See Albrecht Crane & Sack, “Towards a Pedagogy of Affect” Ellsworth, “Why Doesn’t this Feel Empowering?” Hickey-Moody, “Affect as Method” Mulcahy, “Affective Assemblages” “‘Sticky’ Learning” Niccolini, “Animate Affects” Ringrose & Renold, “Cows, Cabins and Tweets” Springgay & Zaliwska, “Learning to be Affected.”

32 Massumi, Parables of the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation.

33 Massumi, Politics of Affect, 114.

34 Haraway, Staying with the Trouble, 128.

35 Ibid., 128.

36 Ibid., 15.

37 Barad, Meeting the Universe, 140.

38 Douglas Harper, “Yarn,” https://www.etymonline.com/word/yarn.

39 Haraway, Staying with the Trouble, 61, 78.

40 Ibid., 78.

41 Ibid., 56.

42 Ibid., 35.

43 Ibid., 138.

44 Ibid., 102

45 Ibid., 205.

46 Ibid., 207.

47 Ibid., 207.

48 Ibid., 207.

49 See Deleuze & Guattari, A Thousand plateaus; Lenz-Taguchi, “Images of Thinking in Feminist Materialisms”

50 Blaise, et al., “Modest Witness(ing),” 39.

51 Haraway, Staying with the Trouble, 130.

52 Ibid., 127.

53 See: Ingold, Lines; Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus.

54 Haraway, Staying with the Trouble, 131.

55 Hayward, “Sensational Jellyfish”

56 Barad, “On Touching–the Inhuman That Therefore I Am.”

57 Haraway, Staying with the Trouble, 34.

58 Ibid., 31.

59 MacLure, “Classification or Wonder?”

60 Morris, “Thrown for a Loop.”

61 Haraway, Staying with the Trouble, 10.

62 Ibid., 150.

63 Ibid., 56.

64 Ibid., 11.

65 Ibid., 150.

66 Ibid., 137.

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Alyssa D. Niccolini

Alyssa D. Niccolini is currently a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University’s Teachers College. Her research explores secondary schooling, gender, adolescent literacies, and post-qualitative research and has been published in journals such as Gender & Education, Journal of Gender Studies, Sex Education: Sexuality, Society, Learning and Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education. Email: [email protected].

Shiva Zarabadi

Shiva Zarabadi is PhD candidate, teaching fellow on MA Sociology of Education and MA Gender, Sexuality and Education and research fellow on Diverse Women and Girls’ Experiences of Gender in Advertising in London’s Public Spaces for Mayor of London Campaigns at UCL Institute of Education, London, UK. She is the co-editor of a forthcoming book Feminist posthumanisms/new materialisms and Education for the book Series on Education and Social Theory: putting theory to work (Routledge, 2018, with Jessica Ringrose and Katie Warfield). Her research interests include feminist new materialism, posthumanism, intra-action of matter, time, affect, space, human and more-than-human. Email: [email protected].

Jessica Ringrose

Jessica Ringrose is Professor of Sociology of Gender and Education at the UCL Institute of Education. She is co-chair of the International Gender and Education Association, and co-coordinator of PhEmaterialism (Feminist Posthumanism and New Materialism Research Methodologies in Education) Network. Her research is about transforming sexualized media cultures; and activating gender and sexual equity in Secondary Schools. Her latest books are: Digital Feminist Activism: Girls and Women Fight back against Rape Culture (Oxford University Press, co-authored with Kaitlynn Mendes and Jessalynn Keller) and Feminist Posthumanisms, New Materialisms and Education (Routledge, Co-edited with Katie Warfield and Shiva Zarabadi). Email: [email protected].