Document Type
Article
Journal/Book Title/Conference
Bank Street Occasional Paper Series
Volume
2013
Issue
30
Publisher
Bank Street College of Education
Publication Date
1-1-2013
First Page
36
Last Page
41
Abstract
In this article, I draw on French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s (1987) notion of becoming to consider the ways in which these encounters with people, materials, and technologies are productive, creating space for Beliebers to come into relationship with one another and with popular culture in ways that are new and that I never could have anticipated during my more carefully organized and school-curriculum-driven interactions with girls during my six years as an elementary school teacher. Through my current research into young girls’ after-school fanaticism, I have been able to come to know girls differently than I knew them in schools. I will argue that these after-school girls are engaged in passionate interactions that enable them to experiment with what it might mean to interrelate with other bodies, materials, and ideas to create new and exciting possibilities for themselves.
Recommended Citation
Sherbine, K. (2013). Becoming-Belieber: Girls’ passionate encounters with Bieber culture. Bank Street Occasional Papers Series, 30. https://educate.bankstreet.edu/occasional-paper-series/vol2013/iss30/4/
