P Alldred
Biographic Data
| ID | 21559 |
|---|---|
| NAME | P Alldred |
| GIVEN NAMES | P |
| FAMILY NAME | Alldred |
| SIGNATURE | ALLDRED P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Nottingham Trent University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5077-7286 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 44 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 948 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 44 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 15 |
Sexuality education, condoms and contradictions: The views of educators and students in Ghana
Background: Condom education campaigns that aim to prevent early and unintended pregnancies can be undermined by local gender norms, religious edicts and ineffective sexuality education policies. In some schools in Ghana, both condom education and abstinence only education run concurrently. Methods: This study explored community attitudes towards condom education in a context of competing messages about sexuality education. The study adopted a qu…
A Narrative Review of Ghanaian Policies and Interventions Supporting Young People’s Sexual Agency
Adolescence represents a vital transitional phase during which young people actively explore and engage with their sexual identity and expression. However, in Sub-Saharan African contexts, such as Ghana, prevailing socio-cultural norms can inhibit the recognition of young people as sexual beings, thereby restricting their ability to engage with their sexuality. It is essential to examine structural interventions, particularly sexual and reproduct…
Tackling Gender-Related Violence: How Can Theory Inform International Professional Education Projects
Is it helpful to share feminist theory with youth practitioners and is there room for it on short training courses such as in EU Action Projects? Can theoretical work on intersectionality, and the concept of gender-related violence (GRV) which grew from it, be shared in training interventions with professionals who work with children and young people? This article is based on the findings of the EU co-funded GAP Work Project that sought to improv…
Gender-Related Violence: What Can a Concept Do
This paper explains the logic for using the concept of gender-related violence (GRV) as a broad category that problematises homophobia, transphobia and the policing of gender norms and the gender binary, as well as gender-based violence-understood as primarily violence against women and girls (VAWG). It then evaluates the utility of this concept and its capacity to introduce theoretical refinement to the study of gendered violence, by reviewing i…
Applied Research, Diffractive Methodology, and the Research-Assemblage: Challenges and Opportunities
This article offers a critical assessment of the challenges for policy- and practice-oriented social research of 'diffractive methodology' (DM): a post-representational approach to data analysis gaining interest among social researchers. Diffractive analyses read data from empirical research alongside other materials - including researchers' perspectives, memories, experiences, and emotions - to provide novel insights on events. While this analyt…
Educating Informal Educators
As Youth and Community Work courses in Higher Education dwindle across the UK, following years of austerity and cuts to Youth Services, the diverse pedagogies of informal education are more needed than ever [...]
New Materialism, Micropolitics and the Everyday Production of Gender-Related Violence
This paper assesses how a new materialist ontology can inform the sociological study of gender-related violence (GRV). The new materialisms are relational rather than essentialist; post-anthropocentric as opposed to humanist; and replace dualisms such as agency/structure, reason/emotion and micro/macro with a monist or 'flat' ontology. To make sense of GRV from within this ontology, we explore violence as assemblages of human and non-human matter…
Gender-Related Violence in Young People's Lives: UK Practitioners' Concerns and Planned Interventions
Youth workers are on the front line for supporting children and young people with the violence some of them face. However, education and training for this part of the role seemed lacking in our experience as a Youth and Community Worker and a Youth and Community Work Lecturer in the UK. An international project that sought to address this educational gap for 'youth practitioners' had a UK arm, which is the context for this article. This project c…
Bodies, non-human matter and the micropolitical production of sociomaterial dis/advantage
This article sets out a more-than-human framework within which to explore the contribution of non-human matter to social inequality. Applying an approach based in Deleuzian ethology, we extend three invitations: to address the multiplicity and fluidity of dis/advantage, to explore its production in everyday interactions, and to acknowledge non-human as well as human matter in the emergence of dis/advantage. The article examines how the interactio…
Condoms, Trust and Stealthing: The Meanings Attributed to Unprotected Hetero-Sex
University students tend to have greater sexual health knowledge than the general public, yet condom use among this group continues to be a public health concern because effective condom use could reduce sexually transmitted infections and, for heterosexual women, unwanted pregnancies. We report findings from a small, qualitative study of condom use among sexually active heterosexual university students in the UK. In interviews, students shared t…
Climate change, environmental justice and the unusual capacities of posthumans
In this article, we theorize and develop a posthumanist and new materialist approach to sustainable development policy. We trace a humanist and anthropocentric emphasis in policy discussions of ‘sustainable’ development that reaches back almost 50 years, and still underpins recent United Nations (UN) statements. This UN approach has tied policies to counter environmental challenges such as anthropogenic climate change firmly to sustaining and ext…
Doing new materialist data analysis: A Spinozo-Deleuzian ethological toolkit
With growing social science interest in new materialist and posthuman ontologies, it is timely to explore how these may translate practically into social research methodologies. This task is complicated by differing interpretations of how new materialist precepts should shape research. This paper aims to fill a gap in the literature by setting out a methodology using one specific thread within the new materialisms: Deleuzian ‘ethology’. Inspired …
Sexualities
Sexuality is one of the most regulated and controversial aspects of human behavior and social organization, and has been subject to societal, religious, and cultural norms, taboos, and laws, often addressing male and female sexualities differently. Sociologically, human sexualities are considered both “natural” and “cultural”; as a consequence, they are diverse, labile, and emergent. Sexualities have been studied from interactionist, poststructur…
Economics, the climate change policy-assemblage and the new materialisms: Towards a comprehensive policy
Climate change policy is a contested field, with rival perspectives underpinning radically different policy propositions: from encouraging the market to innovate technical solutions to climate change through to the replacement of a market economy with an eco-socialist model. These differing policy options draw upon a variety of economic concepts and approaches, with significant consequent divergences in their policy recommendations. In this paper…
Re-assembling climate change policy: Materialism, posthumanism, and the policy assemblage
National and international policy-makers have addressed threats to environmental sustainability from climate change and other environmental degradation for over 30 years. However, it is questionable whether current policies are socially, politically, economically, and scientifically capable of adequately resolving these threats to the planet and living organisms. In this paper we theorize and develop the concept of a "policy assemblage" from with…
Feminist education for university staff responding to disclosures of sexual violence: A critique of the dominant model of staff development
Programmes for sexual violence prevention have focussed historically on university, school or college students rather than staff working at these institutions. The Universities Supporting Victims of Sexual Violence project (USVreact), co-funded by the European Commission, worked across universities in Europe to address this gap in the provision and knowledge of programmes aimed at staff. Each institutional partner in the project designed a progra…
Sustainability, feminist posthumanism and the unusual capacities of (post)humans
Despite the current environmental crises of anthropogenic climate change and environmental degradation afflicting the world, dualisms of culture/nature, human/non-human and animate/inanimate sustain a perspective on ‘the environment’ in which the human and the cultural are privileged over the natural world and other species. Policies on ‘sustainable development’ are likewise predicated upon efforts to assure future human prosperity. Our objective…
The Materiality of Memory: Affects, Remembering and Food Decisions
Sociology has focused predominantly upon 'collective memories' and their impact on social continuity and change, while relegating individual memories to the status of an empirical data resource for research on experiences and identity construction or maintenance. This article suggests, however, that sociology has overlooked the part individual memories play in social production. It applies a post-anthropocentric, new materialist ontology, in whic…
Assembling Citizenship: Sexualities Education, Micropolitics and the Becoming-Citizen
This article suggests that citizenship should be seen not as a status to be acquired, lost or refused by an individual. Rather it is an emergent and relational capacity produced and reproduced in everyday material interactions, across a spectrum of activities from work to lifestyle practices. We examine one example of such a material interaction: the engagements that young people have with sexualities education. To aid this endeavour, we apply a …
The Sage Handbook of Youth Work Practice
Showcases the value of professional work with young people as it is practiced in diverse forms, and in locations from around the world
Social structures, power and resistance in monist sociology: (New) materialist insights
Though mainstream sociological theory has been founded within dualisms such as structure/agency, nature/culture, and mind/matter, a thread within sociology dating back to Spencer and Tarde favoured a monist ontology that cut across such dualistic categories. This thread has been reinvigorated by recent developments in social theory, including the new materialisms, posthumanism and affect theories. Here we assess what a monist or 'flat' ontology m…
Mixed methods, materialism and the micropolitics of the research-assemblage
We assess the potential for mixing social research methods, based upon a materialist and micropolitical analysis of the research-assemblage and of what individual research techniques and methods do in practice. Applying a DeleuzoGuattarian toolkit of assemblages, affects and capacities, we document what happens when research methods and techniques interact with the events they wish to study. Micropolitically, many of these techniques and methods …
Young bodies, power and resistance: A New Materialist Perspective
Portrayals of young people as either victims or perpetrators of errant, aberrant or even dangerous attitudes, desires or behaviours may be criticised for obscuring the relations of power within which young bodies are socially and physically located. However, notions of ‘resistance’ to power within these critiques remain under-theorised. In this theoretical paper we take a new materialist approach to explore the affectivity of young bodies, and th…
Sociology and the New Materialism: Theory, Research, Action
The first book of its kind, Sociology and the New Materialism explores the many and varied applications of new materialism, a key emerging trend in 21st century thought, to the practice of doing sociology. Offering a clear exposition of new materialist theory and using sociological examples throughout to enable the reader to develop a materialist sociological understanding, the book: Outlines the fundamental precepts of new materialism Explores h…
The sexuality-assemblages of young men: A new materialist analysis
This article presents a new materialist exploration of young men and sexuality that shifts the focus away from bodies and individuals, toward the affective flow within assemblages of bodies, things, ideas and social institutions, and the sexual capacities this flow produces. Using data from two empirical studies, we explore the sexuality assemblages of teen boys and young men, and the micropolitics of these assemblages. We find that the sexuality…
New materialist social inquiry: Designs, Methods and the Research-Assemblage
This paper discusses issues of research design and methods in new materialist social inquiry, an approach that is attracting increasing interest across the social sciences as an alternative to either realist or constructionist ontologies. New materialism de-privileges human agency, focusing instead upon how assemblages of the animate and inanimate together produce the world, with fundamental implications for social inquiry methodology and methods…
Sociology and the New Materialism: Theory, Research, Action
The first book of its kind, Sociology and the New Materialism explores the many and varied applications of new materialism, a key emerging trend in 21st century thought, to the practice of doing sociology. Offering a clear exposition of new materialist theory and using sociological examples throughout to enable the reader to develop a materialist sociological understanding, the book: Outlines the fundamental precepts of new materialism Explores h…
Motherhood, Paid Work and Partnering: Values and Theories
The male breadwinner model, which dominated both policy assumptions and social ideals in the post-war welfare state, is increasingly being supplanted by an adult worker family model. In this new model, both men and women are assumed to be primarily workers in the labour market, who as fathers and mothers pool their earned income in supporting children. In this article we assess this assumption. First, we examine the gendered moral rationalities o…
The Sexuality-Assemblage: Desire, Affect, Anti-Humanism
Two theoretical moves are required to resist the 'humanist enticements' associated with sexuality. Post-structuralism supplies the first, showing how the social produces culturally specific sexual knowledgeabilities. A second anti-humanist move is then needed to overturn anthropocentric privileging of the human body and subject as the locus of sexuality. In this paper we establish a language and landscape for a Deleuze-inspired anti-humanist soci…
Social structures, power and resistance in monist sociology: (New) materialist insights
Though mainstream sociological theory has been founded within dualisms such as structure/agency, nature/culture, and mind/matter, a thread within sociology dating back to Spencer and Tarde favoured a monist ontology that cut across such dualistic categories. This thread has been reinvigorated by recent developments in social theory, including the new materialisms, posthumanism and affect theories. Here we assess what a monist or 'flat' ontology m…
Doing new materialist data analysis: A Spinozo-Deleuzian ethological toolkit
With growing social science interest in new materialist and posthuman ontologies, it is timely to explore how these may translate practically into social research methodologies. This task is complicated by differing interpretations of how new materialist precepts should shape research. This paper aims to fill a gap in the literature by setting out a methodology using one specific thread within the new materialisms: Deleuzian ‘ethology’. Inspired …
Re-assembling climate change policy: Materialism, posthumanism, and the policy assemblage
National and international policy-makers have addressed threats to environmental sustainability from climate change and other environmental degradation for over 30 years. However, it is questionable whether current policies are socially, politically, economically, and scientifically capable of adequately resolving these threats to the planet and living organisms. In this paper we theorize and develop the concept of a "policy assemblage" from with…
Inside the Research-Assemblage: New Materialism and the Micropolitics of Social Inquiry
This paper explores social inquiry in terms of the 'research-assemblages' that produce knowledge from events. We use the precepts of new materialism (and specifically DeleuzoGuattarian assemblage ontology) to develop understanding of what happens when social events are researched. From this perspective, research is not at root an enterprise undertaken by human actors, but a machine-like assemblage of things, people, ideas, social collectivities a…
Sustainability, feminist posthumanism and the unusual capacities of (post)humans
Despite the current environmental crises of anthropogenic climate change and environmental degradation afflicting the world, dualisms of culture/nature, human/non-human and animate/inanimate sustain a perspective on ‘the environment’ in which the human and the cultural are privileged over the natural world and other species. Policies on ‘sustainable development’ are likewise predicated upon efforts to assure future human prosperity. Our objective…
Children and School‐based Research: ‘Informed Consent’ or ‘Educated Consent’
This article discusses ‘informed consent’ in relation to research with children and young people in educational settings. In particular, it reflects upon issues that arose in the process of gaining their active consent to participate in the authors’ research on children's understandings of parental involvement in education. In line with contemporary approaches to research with children, the children were provided with ‘information’ through leafle…
Young bodies, power and resistance: A New Materialist Perspective
Portrayals of young people as either victims or perpetrators of errant, aberrant or even dangerous attitudes, desires or behaviours may be criticised for obscuring the relations of power within which young bodies are socially and physically located. However, notions of ‘resistance’ to power within these critiques remain under-theorised. In this theoretical paper we take a new materialist approach to explore the affectivity of young bodies, and th…
Children and Young People's Views of Social Research: The Case of Research on Home-School Relations
In recent years there has been a concern to produce guidelines and explore ethical practice in social research with children. Much of this is framed within a general concern to empower children. However, there has been little attention paid to exploring how children can view research and what understandings inform their decisions about participation. This article draws on empirical data to argue that children's views of research are linked to the…
Mixed methods, materialism and the micropolitics of the research-assemblage
We assess the potential for mixing social research methods, based upon a materialist and micropolitical analysis of the research-assemblage and of what individual research techniques and methods do in practice. Applying a DeleuzoGuattarian toolkit of assemblages, affects and capacities, we document what happens when research methods and techniques interact with the events they wish to study. Micropolitically, many of these techniques and methods …
Applied Research, Diffractive Methodology, and the Research-Assemblage: Challenges and Opportunities
This article offers a critical assessment of the challenges for policy- and practice-oriented social research of 'diffractive methodology' (DM): a post-representational approach to data analysis gaining interest among social researchers. Diffractive analyses read data from empirical research alongside other materials - including researchers' perspectives, memories, experiences, and emotions - to provide novel insights on events. While this analyt…
A Typology of Parental Involvement in Education Centring on Children and Young People: Negotiating familialisation, institutionalisation and individualisation
This article explores the widespread emphasis on parental involvement in education from the perspectives of children and young people. In contrast to the conceptualisation of children as variable social actors, policy initiatives to link home and school more effectively, and research-generated typologies of parental involvement, unthinkingly familialise and institutionalise children by ignoring any part they may play in parental involvement in th…
New Materialism, Micropolitics and the Everyday Production of Gender-Related Violence
This paper assesses how a new materialist ontology can inform the sociological study of gender-related violence (GRV). The new materialisms are relational rather than essentialist; post-anthropocentric as opposed to humanist; and replace dualisms such as agency/structure, reason/emotion and micro/macro with a monist or 'flat' ontology. To make sense of GRV from within this ontology, we explore violence as assemblages of human and non-human matter…
Bodies, non-human matter and the micropolitical production of sociomaterial dis/advantage
This article sets out a more-than-human framework within which to explore the contribution of non-human matter to social inequality. Applying an approach based in Deleuzian ethology, we extend three invitations: to address the multiplicity and fluidity of dis/advantage, to explore its production in everyday interactions, and to acknowledge non-human as well as human matter in the emergence of dis/advantage. The article examines how the interactio…
Pupils or prisoners? Institutional geographies and internal exclusion in UK secondary schools
A growing interest in the geographies of schooling has led to an exploration of a variety of school spaces. An increasing number of secondary schools offer internal fixed‐term exclusions so that temporary removal from school is not seen as ‘time off’ for students. This particular strategy has led to the creation of a new type of space in schools. Drawing upon research undertaken in a London secondary school, this paper explores the geography of t…
No Borders, No Nations, No Deportations
Feminist education for university staff responding to disclosures of sexual violence: A critique of the dominant model of staff development
Programmes for sexual violence prevention have focussed historically on university, school or college students rather than staff working at these institutions. The Universities Supporting Victims of Sexual Violence project (USVreact), co-funded by the European Commission, worked across universities in Europe to address this gap in the provision and knowledge of programmes aimed at staff. Each institutional partner in the project designed a progra…
The Materiality of Memory: Affects, Remembering and Food Decisions
Sociology has focused predominantly upon 'collective memories' and their impact on social continuity and change, while relegating individual memories to the status of an empirical data resource for research on experiences and identity construction or maintenance. This article suggests, however, that sociology has overlooked the part individual memories play in social production. It applies a post-anthropocentric, new materialist ontology, in whic…
Gender-Related Violence: What Can a Concept Do
This paper explains the logic for using the concept of gender-related violence (GRV) as a broad category that problematises homophobia, transphobia and the policing of gender norms and the gender binary, as well as gender-based violence-understood as primarily violence against women and girls (VAWG). It then evaluates the utility of this concept and its capacity to introduce theoretical refinement to the study of gendered violence, by reviewing i…
Assembling Citizenship: Sexualities Education, Micropolitics and the Becoming-Citizen
This article suggests that citizenship should be seen not as a status to be acquired, lost or refused by an individual. Rather it is an emergent and relational capacity produced and reproduced in everyday material interactions, across a spectrum of activities from work to lifestyle practices. We examine one example of such a material interaction: the engagements that young people have with sexualities education. To aid this endeavour, we apply a …
Making a Mockery of Family Life: Lesbian Mothers in the British Media
In Britain, the legal treatment of lesbian mothers and co-parents has improved considerably over the past 15 years (Harne et al., 1997). Despite this, they are still vilified in occasional outbursts in the popular press. This article identifies arguments against lesbian parenting employed in a recent front-page 'fury' article in a British daily tabloid newspaper, The Sun. Encouragingly, of the five arguments about the 'dangers' of lesbian parenti…
Gender-Related Violence in Young People's Lives: UK Practitioners' Concerns and Planned Interventions
Youth workers are on the front line for supporting children and young people with the violence some of them face. However, education and training for this part of the role seemed lacking in our experience as a Youth and Community Worker and a Youth and Community Work Lecturer in the UK. An international project that sought to address this educational gap for 'youth practitioners' had a UK arm, which is the context for this article. This project c…
Making a Mockery of Family Life: Lesbian Mothers in the British Media
In Britain, the legal treatment of lesbian mothers and co-parents has improved considerably over the past 15 years (Harne et al., 1997). Despite this, they are still vilified in occasional outbursts in the popular press. This article identifies arguments against lesbian parenting employed in a recent front-page 'fury' article in a British daily tabloid newspaper, The Sun. Encouragingly, of the five arguments about the 'dangers' of lesbian parenti…
Children and Young People's Views of Social Research: The Case of Research on Home-School Relations
In recent years there has been a concern to produce guidelines and explore ethical practice in social research with children. Much of this is framed within a general concern to empower children. However, there has been little attention paid to exploring how children can view research and what understandings inform their decisions about participation. This article draws on empirical data to argue that children's views of research are linked to the…
A Typology of Parental Involvement in Education Centring on Children and Young People: Negotiating familialisation, institutionalisation and individualisation
This article explores the widespread emphasis on parental involvement in education from the perspectives of children and young people. In contrast to the conceptualisation of children as variable social actors, policy initiatives to link home and school more effectively, and research-generated typologies of parental involvement, unthinkingly familialise and institutionalise children by ignoring any part they may play in parental involvement in th…
Children and School‐based Research: ‘Informed Consent’ or ‘Educated Consent’
This article discusses ‘informed consent’ in relation to research with children and young people in educational settings. In particular, it reflects upon issues that arose in the process of gaining their active consent to participate in the authors’ research on children's understandings of parental involvement in education. In line with contemporary approaches to research with children, the children were provided with ‘information’ through leafle…
Women and Mental Health
Thinking Globally, Acting Locally: Women Activists' Accounts
Exile and Asylum: Women Seeking Asylum in ‘Fortress Europe
No Borders, No Nations, No Deportations
Motherhood, Paid Work and Partnering: Values and Theories
The male breadwinner model, which dominated both policy assumptions and social ideals in the post-war welfare state, is increasingly being supplanted by an adult worker family model. In this new model, both men and women are assumed to be primarily workers in the labour market, who as fathers and mothers pool their earned income in supporting children. In this article we assess this assumption. First, we examine the gendered moral rationalities o…
Mothers and child care: Policies, values and theories
Government expansion of child care services is based on the assumption that both parents are employed (the adult worker model) and make cost‐benefit calculations in choosing child care (the rational economic choice model). This paper addresses this assumption, based on research examining mothers' assessments of appropriate child care. These assessments involve complex moral and emotional decisions around their own and their children's needs, and …
The Gendered Embroilments of War
Obstacles to good sex education: International angles
Pupils or prisoners? Institutional geographies and internal exclusion in UK secondary schools
A growing interest in the geographies of schooling has led to an exploration of a variety of school spaces. An increasing number of secondary schools offer internal fixed‐term exclusions so that temporary removal from school is not seen as ‘time off’ for students. This particular strategy has led to the creation of a new type of space in schools. Drawing upon research undertaken in a London secondary school, this paper explores the geography of t…
How Come I Fell Pregnant?”: Young Mothers' Narratives of Conception
This article is available open access through the publisher’s website through the link below. Copyright @ 2011 A B Academic Publishers
The Sexuality-Assemblage: Desire, Affect, Anti-Humanism
Two theoretical moves are required to resist the 'humanist enticements' associated with sexuality. Post-structuralism supplies the first, showing how the social produces culturally specific sexual knowledgeabilities. A second anti-humanist move is then needed to overturn anthropocentric privileging of the human body and subject as the locus of sexuality. In this paper we establish a language and landscape for a Deleuze-inspired anti-humanist soci…
Introduction for Special Section of Sociological Research Online: Modern Girlhoods
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New materialist social inquiry: Designs, Methods and the Research-Assemblage
This paper discusses issues of research design and methods in new materialist social inquiry, an approach that is attracting increasing interest across the social sciences as an alternative to either realist or constructionist ontologies. New materialism de-privileges human agency, focusing instead upon how assemblages of the animate and inanimate together produce the world, with fundamental implications for social inquiry methodology and methods…
The sexuality-assemblages of young men: A new materialist analysis
This article presents a new materialist exploration of young men and sexuality that shifts the focus away from bodies and individuals, toward the affective flow within assemblages of bodies, things, ideas and social institutions, and the sexual capacities this flow produces. Using data from two empirical studies, we explore the sexuality assemblages of teen boys and young men, and the micropolitics of these assemblages. We find that the sexuality…
Gender‐Related Violence and Young People: An Overview of Italian, Irish, Spanish, UK and EU Legislation
Do laws regarding violence against or sexual exploitation of young people recognise gendered and other power dynamics? Cross‐national comparison of legal texts can illustrate the benefits of framing issues of violence/gender/youth in certain ways and offer critical reflection on particular legal frameworks or cultural understandings. This policy review is based on an analysis of select laws regarding gender‐related violence ( GRV ) as relates to …
Inside the Research-Assemblage: New Materialism and the Micropolitics of Social Inquiry
This paper explores social inquiry in terms of the 'research-assemblages' that produce knowledge from events. We use the precepts of new materialism (and specifically DeleuzoGuattarian assemblage ontology) to develop understanding of what happens when social events are researched. From this perspective, research is not at root an enterprise undertaken by human actors, but a machine-like assemblage of things, people, ideas, social collectivities a…
Mixed methods, materialism and the micropolitics of the research-assemblage
We assess the potential for mixing social research methods, based upon a materialist and micropolitical analysis of the research-assemblage and of what individual research techniques and methods do in practice. Applying a DeleuzoGuattarian toolkit of assemblages, affects and capacities, we document what happens when research methods and techniques interact with the events they wish to study. Micropolitically, many of these techniques and methods …
Young bodies, power and resistance: A New Materialist Perspective
Portrayals of young people as either victims or perpetrators of errant, aberrant or even dangerous attitudes, desires or behaviours may be criticised for obscuring the relations of power within which young bodies are socially and physically located. However, notions of ‘resistance’ to power within these critiques remain under-theorised. In this theoretical paper we take a new materialist approach to explore the affectivity of young bodies, and th…
Sociology and the New Materialism: Theory, Research, Action
The first book of its kind, Sociology and the New Materialism explores the many and varied applications of new materialism, a key emerging trend in 21st century thought, to the practice of doing sociology. Offering a clear exposition of new materialist theory and using sociological examples throughout to enable the reader to develop a materialist sociological understanding, the book: Outlines the fundamental precepts of new materialism Explores h…
The Sage Handbook of Youth Work Practice
Showcases the value of professional work with young people as it is practiced in diverse forms, and in locations from around the world
Social structures, power and resistance in monist sociology: (New) materialist insights
Though mainstream sociological theory has been founded within dualisms such as structure/agency, nature/culture, and mind/matter, a thread within sociology dating back to Spencer and Tarde favoured a monist ontology that cut across such dualistic categories. This thread has been reinvigorated by recent developments in social theory, including the new materialisms, posthumanism and affect theories. Here we assess what a monist or 'flat' ontology m…
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