Social, Critical and Political Theories for Educational Leadership by Richard Niesche & Christina Gowlett

Author:Richard Niesche & Christina Gowlett
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9789811382413
Publisher: Springer Singapore

Materialisation

The process of ‘materialisation’ (Butler, 1993, pp. 4–12) is how rules of intelligibility end up becoming sedimented over time to form ‘truths’. Ideas and actions, when repeated over and over, end up becoming so engrained (materialised) into the everyday that, over time, they start to give the impression of naturalness. This makes sense. When something is consistently repeated, without questioning, and in a particular way, then it ends up becoming the ‘done thing’ (to use a colloquialism) and simply settles into existence as ‘truth’ and a ‘norm’.

The concept of ‘materialisation’ rebukes the idea that there are ‘natural’ and ‘neutral’ things that are untouched by culture. What is seemingly ‘natural’ is, therefore, also shaped. There is perhaps no more radical area to think about the construction of the natural, than in the notion of biological sex – which is exactly what Butler did. She made the argument in Gender Trouble, and continued it on in Bodies That Matter, that the notion of ‘sex’ is not neutral but, in fact, also a constructed term.The concept of ‘sex’ is itself troubled terrain, formed through a series of contestations over what ought to be decisive criterion for distinguishing between the two sexes; the concept of sex has a history…. (Butler, 1993, p. 5)

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