Feminist Geographies of New Materialism

女权主义方法给社会科学和自然科学都带来了开创性的动力。最近，在女权主义思想的强烈影响下，一种新的理论方法为社会问题提供了创新的概念：新唯物主义，它关注物质在社会和自然过程中的关键作用。在女权主义观点传统的基础上，该方法旨在克服任何类型的二元论(即不同性别之间或文化与自然之间)。然而，女权主义理论的这一重要贡献很少被讨论，也没有在地理学中被采用，尽管它解决了一些学科的关键问题，如人与自然之间的复杂相互关系。科学网络旨在揭示新唯物主义中的女权主义参考和传统，使其对讲德语的人文地理学产生影响，并通过合作开发分析实质性的创新议程，为正在进行的关于女权主义理论的国际辩论做出贡献。为了发展“新唯物主义的女性主义地理学”，三个连续的目标构成了S方法的网络：(1)女性主义唯物主义作品的详细重建和新旧唯物主义方法之间的系统性延续；(2)女性主义关于新唯物主义的理论工作彻底转移到地理理论生产和各自的实证研究设计；(3)这些洞察力的回归到国际女性主义关于物质的理论讨论。

Feminist approaches gave pioneering impetus to the social as well as to the natural sciences. Recently, a new theoretical approach, strongly influenced by feminist thinking, provides innovative conceptions of societal problems: the new materialism that focuses on the pivotal role of materiality in social and natural processes alike. Building on the tradition of feminist insights, the approach aims to overcome dualisms of any sort (i.e. between different genders or between culture and nature). This crucial contribution of feminist theorizing, however, has been rarely discussed and not been adopted in geography even though it addresses some of the discipline¿s pivotal problems like the complex interrelation between humans and nature. The scientific network aims at revealing the feminist references and traditions within the new materialism, at making it productive for German speaking human geography and at contributing to the ongoing international debate on feminist theory by collaboratively developing innovative agendas for the analysis of materiality. In order to develop "feminist geographies of new materialism", three consecutive aims structure the network¿s approach: (1) the detailed reconstruction of feminist-materialist works and a systematization of continuities between older and newer approaches to materiality; (2) a thorough transfer of feminist theoretical work on the new materialism to geographical theory production as well as to respective empirical research designs; and (3) a return of these insights into the international feminist theoretical discussion on materiality.