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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear All,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Join us on <b>25 February</b>, at <b>Western Sydney University, Parramatta South Campus</b>, for the seminar titled ‘New materialism and the sociology of inequality: class, capital and capacities’. For further details, please see below
or visit: <a href="http://bit.ly/2DVaYSJ">http://bit.ly/2DVaYSJ</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt">New materialism and the sociology of inequality: class, capital and capacities<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Date: </b>25 February 2019<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Time: </b>2:00pm – 4:00pm <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Venue: </b>Building EA, Level 2, Room 13 (LT02), Parramatta Campus (South), Western Sydney University (address: Corner of Victoria Road and James Ruse Drive, Rydalmere, NSW 2116)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>RSVP:</b> Please RSVP to <a href="mailto:e.blight@westernsydney.edu.au">
e.blight@westernsydney.edu.au</a> by Friday, 22 <sup> </sup>February 2019.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Live Stream via Zoom</b>: we are currently investigating live stream and recording options for this seminar. If you are interested in these viewing options, please contact e.blight@westernsydney.edu.au<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><b>Class Matters: A New Materialist Approach<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Presenter: Peta Hinton<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The material turn that has been gathering steam in the social and cultural sciences in recent years is distinguished by its signature approach to materiality as emergent, indeterminate, self-organising or sui generis: a dynamic participant
in social meanings and processes that extends political analysis to more-than-human agencies.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Re-materialising Social Class<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Presenter: Nick J. Fox<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In this paper I outline a new materialist perspective on social class, and contrast this with existing approaches. Marx’s materialist analysis of social class explored two flows of matter: of human bodies and of economic capital.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Peta Hinton Biography<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Peta Hinton currently lectures in the media and cultural studies program at Heinrich-Heine-University in Düsseldorf and is a recent fellowship recipient and Affiliated Fellow with the ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry. Her research
focuses on feminist political theory and the new materialisms, as they work to challenge 'normative' iterations of ‘politics’, ‘ethics’, and ‘time’ that underscore how we understand difference and craft interventions for social justice and change through examples
and materials that accede to less familiar legislations of presence, consumption, production, relation, and life.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Nick J. Fox Biography<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Nick J. Fox is professor of sociology at the University of Huddersfield, UK, honorary professor of sociology at the University of Sheffield, UK, and currently a visiting fellow at the University of Melbourne. He has researched and written
widely on new materialist and posthuman social theory as applied to sexualities, health, environment, creativity, emotions and research methodology, and is currently working on issues in political sociology including citizenship, governance and policy. His
most recent book (with Pam Alldred) is Sociology and the New Materialism (Sage, 2017).<b><o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Kind regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Elise<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Elise Blight | Administrative Assistant - Business Development
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