A critical cartography of the mattering(s) of identity politics

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dc.check.date2026-08-20en
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dc.contributor.authorGeerts, Evelienen
dc.contributor.editorKontturi , Katve-Kaisaen
dc.contributor.editorLeppänen, Taruen
dc.contributor.editorMehrabi , Taraen
dc.contributor.editorTiainen, Millaen
dc.date.accessioned2025-02-04T16:20:08Z
dc.date.available2025-02-04T16:20:08Z
dc.date.issued2025-02-20en
dc.description.abstractCurrently the subject of polarising debates and political instrumentalisation, identity politics – together with how it is entangled with identity as a lived but also theorisable experience consisting of discursive, material, and affective dimensions – is rightfully regarded as a complex phenomenon. This chapter unpacks some of this complexity by mapping out the matters – and matterings of – identity (politics) by means of a critical cartographical methodology (see Deleuze and Guattari [1980] 2005; Braidotti [1994] 2011). After sketching out several critical materialist philosophical conceptualisations of identity (politics), such as those rooted in feminist standpoint theory, situated knowledges, intersectional activism and scholarship, queer theory, and queer of colour critique, a critical new materialist framework that continues along these matter(ings)-emphasising lines is presented. This critical new materialist framework, or put differently, an interferential framework (cf. Haraway 1997; Barad 2007; Geerts and van der Tuin 2013, 2021), conceptualises identity as an always-shifting myriad of the discursive-material-affective (cf. Puar 2012; Lykke 2020; Tiainen et al. 2020). This interference-based framework not only allows for a more conceptually clear and multifocal theorisation of all things identity, consequently highlighting a coalitional identities-based politics, but it also demonstrates that contemporary critical new materialist thought builds on preceding feminist materialist paradigms.en
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dc.identifier.citationGeerts, E. (2025) 'A critical cartography of the mattering (s) of identity politics: Intersectional and interferential explorations', in Kontturi, K.-K., Leppänen, T., Mehrabi, T. and Tiainen, M. (eds.) New Materialism and Intersectionality. London: Routledge, pp. 180-201. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003404019-12en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.4324/9781003404019-12en
dc.identifier.endpage201en
dc.identifier.isbn9781003404019en
dc.identifier.startpage180en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/16962
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherRoutledgeen
dc.relation.ispartofNew Materialism and Intersectionalityen
dc.rights© 2025, the Author. This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in Kontturi, K.-K., Leppänen, T., Mehrabi, T. and Tiainen, M. (eds.) New Materialism and Intersectionality, available online: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003404019-12en
dc.subjectIdentityen
dc.subjectPoliticsen
dc.subjectCritical cartographical methodologyen
dc.subjectCritical new materialist frameworken
dc.subjectInterference-based frameworken
dc.titleA critical cartography of the mattering(s) of identity politicsen
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