Horse-girl assemblages: towards a post-human cartography of girls' desire in an ex-mining valleys community
Horse-girl assemblages: towards a post-human cartography of girls' desire in an ex-mining valleys community
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DOI：
10.1080/01596306.2014.888841
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发表时间：
2014-05-04
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1.7
通讯作者：
Ivinson, Gabrielle
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作者：
Renold, Emma;Ivinson, Gabrielle
本文与酷儿和女权主义后人类唯物主义奖学金合作，以了解年轻的山谷女孩经历无处不在的恐惧，风险，脆弱和暴力的感觉。对生活在前采矿半农村社区的女孩（12-15岁）进行的纵向人种学研究表明，女孩如何谈判山谷生活中复杂的性别和性习俗。我们借鉴德勒兹和瓜塔里的概念，“幸福”出现在社会物质历史的“集会”，以映射如何性别化和奇怪的遗产，社区的马的过去表面上的女孩谈论马的情感。我们的制图追踪了一系列“横向闪光”，其中女孩的生活和她们与马的活动与当地历史产生了共鸣，这些历史被采矿的恶劣条件以及“纯粹欲望”的解放时刻所影响。我们创造性地探讨德勒兹和瓜塔里的挑衅，以恢复其多形态的革命力量的愿望。我们不认为女孩需要被赋予权力，转变或改变路线，而是强调女孩已经做的和感受到的潜力，以及实现这些愿望的超越人类的集合。
The paper works with queer and feminist post-human materialist scholarship to understand the way young teen valleys' girls experienced ubiquitous feelings of fear, risk, vulnerability and violence. Longitudinal ethnographic research of girls (aged 12-15) living in an ex-mining semi-rural community suggests how girls are negotiating complex gendered and sexual mores of valleys' life. We draw on Deleuze and Guatarri's concept of 'becomings' emerging in social-material-historical 'assemblages' to map how the gendered and queer legacies of the community's equine past surfaces affectively in girls' talk about horses. Our cartography traces a range of 'transversal flashes' in which girls' lives and their activities with horses resonate with a local history coloured by the harsh conditions of mining as well as liberatory moments of 'pure desire'. We creatively explore Deleuze and Guatarri's provocation to return desire to its polymorphous revolutionary force. Instead of viewing girls as needing to be empowered, transformed or rerouted, we emphasise the potential of what girls already do and feel and the more-than-human assemblages which enable these desires.