ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on embodied and embedded subjectivity and identity, and connections with research. The author discusses how reflections on these connections can help her to think about transnational intersectional feminist research. She approaches the embodiment and embeddedness of a researcher via the prism of matter, understood as material locatedness; yet, with matter defined only as physical or corporeal substance in general. Just also situates embodiment and embeddedness in relation to social context, reflecting upon different ways in which matter and social context may matter for subjectivity and knowledge production. She takes into account that the logic behind meaning-making is crucial for subjectivities and knowledge production, and underpins the argument with references to neuroscientific theory. Against this background, Just emphasizes that there are connections between mental activity, meaning-making, the logic behind meaning-making, embodiment, embeddedness, matter, and social context. Additionally, she takes her reflections on subjectivity to another level, using the conceptual framework of immanence philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s A Thousand Plateaus (1988), asking: What if a researcher lives hir subjectivity as “imperceptible”, “assemblage-like” and/or “stratified” with regard to axes of differentiation and corresponding identity markers? Finally, Just reflects on correspondences between lived subjectivities and research through a poetically framed piece of personally affected writing.
