Voices from Gender Studies Negotiating the Terms of Academic Production, Epistemology, and the Logics and Contents of Identity

Introductory Chapter: Voices, Negotiations, and Continuous Conversations

Maria Udén and Edyta Just

Part 1: Voices on Negotiating the Terms of Academic Production

1. Finding a Unicorn in the Woods: The Magic of Collaborative Care and Resistance

Emelie Larsson, Karin Larsson Hult, Lisa Ridzén, and Ida Sjöberg

2. Response Paper

An Embodied Reflection of/to/about Slow Scholarship (Or How to Practice Care and Resistance in Neoliberal Academia): Response to Emelie Larsson, Karin Larsson Hult, Lisa Ridzén, and Ida Sjöberg

Domitilla (Domi) Olivieri

3. A Narrative of Writing My Doctoral Dissertation

Sarasadat Khalifeh Soltani

4. Response Paper

My Awakenings: Response to Sarasadat Khalifeh Soltani

Edyta Just

Part 2: Voices on Negotiating Epistemological Positions

5. Drawn to the In-Between

Max Metzger

6. Response Paper

A Weave of Care, Railway Engineering, and Physics with Feminist Technoscience as the Weft: Response to Max Metzger

Christina Mörtberg

7. How Does Trans Studies Fit the Knowledge Regime of Mode 2 Type of Research?

france rose hartline

8. Response Paper

Intervention: Response to france rose hartline

Tuija Pulkkinen

9. Feminist Perspectives on Researching Prisons

Åsa Corneliusson

10. Response Paper

Feminist Perspectives on Researching Prisons: Response to Åsa Corneliusson

Berteke Waaldijk and Angeliki Sifaki

11. Diffracting Dementia: Co-Creative Experiments with Agential Realism and Multisensoriality in a Residential Care Home in Northern Norway

Dragana Lukić and Lilli Mittner

12. Response Paper

“Cultivating ‘Knowing in Being’—Feminist ‘Thinking–Doings’”: Response to Dragana Lukić and Lilli Mittner

Evelien Geerts

Part 3: Voices on Negotiating the Logics and Contents of Identity

13. Invisible Womanhood: A Political Poetics for Six Thousand Years

Anastasia Kiourtzoglou

14. Response Paper

Different Time Periods, Different Locations But the Same Problem: Response to Anastasia Kiourtzoglou

Akosua Keseboa Darkwah

15. (De)constructing Gender-Related Stereotypes in Young Generations in Times of Populisms. A Case Study

Lorenza Perini

16. Response Paper

Travelling Together: Response to Lorenza Perini

Sveva Magaraggia

17. “Don’t Get All Political on Me”: On the Possibilities of Reading Bad Men After the #MeToo Movement and in the Face of Feminist and Queer Theory

Nathalia Saliba Dias

18. Response Paper

Undutiful Queer/Feminist Readings of “Bad Men” Fiction: Response to Nathalia Saliba Dias

Nina Lykke 

19. Towards a Paradigm for Parity and Socially Sustainable Mining in Ghana.

Rufai Haruna Kilu

20.  Response Paper

Researching Gender and Mining Operations in the Local Community: Response to Rufai Haruna Kilu

Maria Udén

Biography

Edyta Just is a Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor at the Division of Gender Studies, Department of Thematic Studies, Linköping University, Sweden. Her latest publications include: Åkesson, E., Just, E., and Eriksson Barajas, K. (2022). Closer to and further away: emergency-remote teacher education, orientations, and student-bodies. Högre Utbildning, 12(1): 66–78 and Edyta Just (2021). Learning and Students’ Experiences with Blended Education. International Journal of Higher Education, 10(6): 213–223.

Maria Udén is a Professor in Gender and Technology at the Design research unit, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden. Since the early 1990s, she has taken interest in the implications of feminist theory of science. Her research revolves around gender equality and feminist concepts of alternative technology paradigms and explores interfaces between technology development and social and organizational movements. A recent publication is “NomaTrack and the LoRa-DTN protocol: DTN in innovation for reindeer husbandry” from 2021 (with Samo Grasic, Kerstin Kemlén, and Annelie Päiviö).

Vera Weetzel is a hairdresser, a former PhD candidate in Gender Studies at Linköping University, and an activist. Vera has left the academic path, and is now working as a hairdresser at a salon called Ohyes in Stockholm. They’re focusing on creating LGBTQIA+ welcoming spaces while developing the craft of doing hair. Academically, Vera is interested in and has explored a range of topics and areas, including posthumanism, ecofeminism, new materialism, queer, and trans studies.

Cecilia Åsberg is Professor of Gender, Nature, Culture at Linköping University. Åsberg did the first Scandinavian PhD in Gender Studies, but has since been researching and teaching across the arts and sciences, traversing the “two cultures” and built bridge-building feminist communities with grants in Sweden and abroad, also beyond the confines of academia. Recently published works include “More-than-human care in creative AI-interactions” in Nordic HCI; “Science and gender” (KTH, 2022), “Toxic Embodiment” (in More Posthuman Glossary, 2022), and “Afterword” (in Eco Critique, 2023).