Editorial

Abstract

Matter: Journal of New Materialist Research is a group of feminist researchers strongly dedicated to social justice, and the creation of horizontal practices of knowing and learning. They take the entanglement between matter and discourse as the ethico-onto- epistemological framework that not only studies but is also generative of worlds. This journal is responsive to this creative generativity, through two driving forces: 1. the need to maintain and materialize an affective networkcreated through the COST Action IS1307 New Materialism: Networking European Scholarship on ‘How Matter Comes to Matter’ and; 2. the need to present and to make present interdisciplinary knowledge si tuated vis à vis, and committed to contemporary challenges that we are facing academically, politically, environmentally, and economically. Between 2014 and 2018, Iris van der Tuin (chair of the Action) and Felicity Colman (vice chair of the Action) catalysed a network of feminist research ers that broke through disciplines, nationalities, and generations in order to find how our embodied practices, geo temporal situations, researching ways, and political strategies matter