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Confero | Vol. 3 | no. 2 | 2015 | pp. 80-119| doi: 10.3384/confero.2001-4562.150626
Posthuman performativity, gender and
‘school bullying’: Exploring the
material-discursive intra-actions of
skirts, hair, sluts, and poofs
Jessica Ringrose
and Victoria Rawlings
I
n this article we take off from critiques of psychological
and school bullying typologies as creating problematic
binary categories of bully and victim and neglecting
socio-cultural aspects of gender and sexuality. We
review bullying research informed by Judith Butler’s theories of
discursive performativity, which help us to understand how
subjectification works through performative repetitions of
heterosexual gender norms. We then build on these insights
drawing on the feminist new materialist approach of Karen
Barad’s posthuman performativity, which we argue enlarges our
scope of inquiry in profound ways. Barad’s theories suggest we
move from psychological models of the inter-personal, and from
Butlerian notions of discursive subjectification, to ideas of
discursive-material intra-action to consider the more-thanhuman
relationalities of bullying. Throughout the article, we
demonstrate the approach using examples from qualitative
research with teens in the UK and Australia, exploring non-
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