This presentation discusses creative writing and feminist storytelling (Richardson 1994; Lykke 2014) as a way of collectively approaching subjects that provoke simultaneous feelings of pain, attachment and detachment. Focus is on the #metoo campaign as it took form in the Swedish context during the autumn of 2017. We: the authors of this presentation, shared a wish to engage in the responses to the #metoo campaign in Sweden, and the initial discussions concerned the possibility to write about feminist responses to this campaign. Saying this, suggestions on potential theoretical frameworks and collection of material did not evoke an obvious continuation; rather, we started to talk about our own feelings for the #metoo campaign. In order to explore what these feelings stand for, and whether they could make way into discussing the #metoo campaign more thoroughly, we decided to pursue creative writing exercises during the autumn of 2018. In this paper, we reflect on and discuss this process and the possible contributions that it can make to our academic writing.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 36525405This presentation engages in a critical reading of Donna Haraway’s concept of situated knowledges (1988) through the notion of temporality. As a methodological tool, the concept of situated knowledges challenges objectivity and universalist understandings of knowledge in that it aims to demonstrate the subjective character of objectivity, and more specifically, the situatedness of scientific knowledge production. Reading Haraway’s outline of the concept of situated knowledges, it is noteworthy that she frequently employs spatial metaphors, in particular anywhere, nowhere and somewhere, to illustrate the idea of situatedness. Saying this, while the concept of situated knowledges takes into account the location and embodiment of the researcher subject, less is said about the researcher’s constraint to particular temporal frameworks. As such, Haraway’s notion of situatedness seems temporarily oriented towards the researcher’s present. Inspired by the work of Barbara Adams (1998), Rob Nixon (2011), Kim Fortun (2014) and Erin Fitz-Henry (2017), this presentation engages in potential ways in which Haraway’s concept of situated knowledges can be used as a means to acknowledge questions that adheres to temporality, and more specifically the short-time temporalities that characterizes much of contemporary (capitalist) life. Haraway has indeed showed the importance of acknowledging the researcher’s own situatedness when it comes to space, and elaborating on the concept, this presentation aims to show that the positioning of the researcher subject is not temporarily indifferent.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 36286557This presentation explores movements – in terms of national and international trade – of electronic waste (e-waste) and how these movements also determine the status of e-waste as a risk or as a resource. As such, it draws on interviews with representatives of companies in Slovenia and in Sweden. These companies – both publicly and privately owned – are part of different sectors: the mining industry, production and distribution of electrical and electronic goods and services, collection and/or management of electronic waste as well as reparation of obsolete electronics. E-waste distinguishes itself from other types of waste in that it contains complex material compositions: both hazardous components such as mercury, beryllium and brominated flame retardants, and valuable materials and metals such as gold and copper. Using the vocabulary of Kärg Kama (2015), WEEE adheres both to the logic of hazard and the logic of resource. The dual status of e-waste, as both risky and valuable makes it a rather complicated waste fraction to recycle, which also constitutes one of the reasons for this presentation’s focus on this particular fraction. The findings suggest that e-waste is considered a resource, only insofar, it is recycled within the economic system of EU, or other western countries. As the representatives of the different companies discussed spatial transferences of e-waste between EU countries and other western countries, e-waste was largely conveyed as a resource. Discussing spatial transferences of e-waste to countries outside of the EU/West on the other hand, its status as hazardous was emphasized. Saying this, e-waste is simply not transformed into a risk as it is transferred outside of the EU/West. Rather, the findings suggest that its status as hazardous actually serves to reinforce its status as a resource. This means that the status of e-waste as a risk is inextricably bound up with its status as a resource. Hence, in order for e-waste to be regarded as a resource, the understanding of its status as a risk needs to be potentially present. In sum, engaging in e-waste, as it is subjected to national and international trade, this presentation seeks to demonstrate the malleability of risk, or risk as (also) socially constructed. As such, space, it is suggested, is constitutive of the status of e-waste as a risk or a resource.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 36134493The NKL network is an international, and interdisciplinary group of scholars, which investigates different aspects of the digital society. As a result, the CSSS group at FDV invited three of the members of the NKL network to Ljubljana in September, 2018. During this meeting, potential collaborations were discussed. The CSSS group also partook in the NKL event in Zagreb in December, 2018. In May, 2019, and together with my mentor, Prof. Mali, I convened the session Socio-technical challenges with health technologies at the S&TS conference in Graz. This session gathered members of the NKL network as well as other scholars interested in this topic. In the beginning of December, 2019, the CSSS group also had the possibility to arrange the annual NKL event in Ljubljana. This event lasted for three days and included a PhD training course, the NKL conference and the NKL meeting. For more information, please see the following link: https://www.fdv.uni-lj.si/obvestila-in-informacije/dogodki-in-utrinki/napovednik-dogodkov/letno-znanstveno-srecanje-mednarodne-raziskovalne-mreze-the-navigating-knowledge-landscape (2019-12-15).
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