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Allergic encounters in contact zones: Rethinking intersectionality through debility and trans-corporeality
Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (starting 2013), Centre for Gender Studies (from 2013). Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (starting 2013), Department of Social and Psychological Studies (from 2013).ORCID iD: 0000-0003-1061-3292
2025 (English)In: New Materialism and Intersectionality: Making Middles Matter / [ed] Katve-Kaisa Kontturi, Taru Leppänen, Tara Mehrabi, Milla Tiainen, Routledge, 2025, 1st, p. 25-103Chapter in book (Other academic)
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This chapter analyses material collected from scientific podcasts about allergies, scientific articles on the matter, and six interviews conducted in 2019 with people living with conditions that are commonly known as allergies. Using, on the one hand, feminist new materialist theories about the body as a material process of becoming with human and nonhuman others, and intersectionality on the other, it is argued that allergic bodies are situated socio-material trans-corporeal contact zones. In other words, bodies are enacted differently and become debilitated in these contact zones as social structures of power such as gender and economic conditions meet the materiality of the body and the world. The chapter contributes to nonanthropocentric understandings of intersectionality that engages with notions of gender, debility, and the body as always already enacted through material encounters with nonhuman others and situated in social structures as individuals experience their allergic bodies. 

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Routledge, 2025, 1st. p. 25-103
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-103350DOI: 10.4324/9781003404019-5Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85214878222ISBN: 9781003404019 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kau-103350DiVA, id: diva2:1939793
Available from: 2025-02-24 Created: 2025-02-24 Last updated: 2025-10-16Bibliographically approved

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