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SUMMARY:Rethinking Resistance in Microsociological Analytics - Maria Tambo
 ukou\, Centre for Narrative Research\, University of East London
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CONTACT:Susannah Lacon
DESCRIPTION:In this paper I chart lines of flight in women artists’ narr
 atives. In focusing on the complex interrelations between the social milie
 us of education and art\, what I suggest is that they should be analysed a
 s an assemblage where power relations and forces of desire are constantly 
 at play in creating conditions of possibility for women to resist\, imagin
 e themselves becoming other and for new possibilities in their lives to be
  actualized. As a novel approach to social ontology\, the theory of assemb
 lages offers and analytics of social complexity that accounts for open con
 figurations\, continuous connections and unstable hierarchies\, structures
  and axes of difference. In reconsidering resistance as immanent in dispos
 itifs of power and assemblages of desire\, what I finally argue is that wo
 men artists’ narratives contribute to the constitution of minor knowledg
 es and create archives of radical futurity.\n\nDr Maria Tamboukou is Reade
 r in Sociology and Co-director of the Centre of Narrative Research\, at th
 e University of East London. Her research interests and publications are i
 n auto/biographical narratives\, feminist theories\, foucauldian and deleu
 zian analytics\, the sociology of gender and education\, gender and space 
 and the sociology of art. Publications include the monographs Women\, Educ
 ation\, the Self: a Foucauldian Perspective (2003)\, In the Fold between P
 ower and Desire: Women Artists’ Narratives (2010)\, Nomadic Narratives: 
 Gwen John’s Letters and Paintings (2010)  and three co-edited collection
 s Dangerous Encounters: Genealogy and Ethnography (2003) Doing Narrative R
 esearch (2008) and Beyond Narrative Coherence. (2010). She is currently co
 mpleting a short monograph on Carrington’s letters\, drawings and painti
 ngs to be published in the BSA Auto/Biography monograph series.
LOCATION: Faculty of Education\, 184 Hills Road\, Cambridge\, CB2 8PQ in r
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