No Humans Allowed? The Alien in/as Feminist Theory

Kember, Sarah. 2011. No Humans Allowed? The Alien in/as Feminist Theory. Feminist Theory, 12(2), pp. 183-199. ISSN 1464-7001 [Article]

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This article examines the role of the alien as the ultimate outsider and considers the challenges it poses to feminist theory. I argue that these challenges are based on the need to continue developing an ethics of relationality in which neither love nor relationality itself is deemed to be the answer; on rethinking agency and ontology in terms of becoming and the limitations of becoming; on a critique of representationalism which limits us to figuring the alien in rather than as feminist theory and thereby invokes the archetypal story in which alien and human, monster and human switch sides; and finally on reconsidering modes of communication that resonate with their theme and emphasise the performativity, conceptual risk taking and creativity that might enable feminist theory itself to become alien again.

Item Type:

Article

Identification Number (DOI):

https://doi.org/10.1177/1464700111404756

Departments, Centres and Research Units:

Media, Communications and Cultural Studies
Research Office > REF2014

Dates:

DateEvent
2011Published

Item ID:

4170

Date Deposited:

27 Sep 2011 13:18

Last Modified:

27 Jun 2017 14:29

Peer Reviewed:

Yes, this version has been peer-reviewed.

URI:

https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/4170

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