27 research outputs found
Disabling XAuthors, Disordering TextsX: Deconstructing Disability and Identity in ChangingX Times
Drawing on Badiou’s writing, we develop new insights on some central notions of the discourse on “disability.” We
offer eight agonistic, intersecting trajectories addressing these concepts. Drawing on authorial voices, we criticize the
grammatical and rhetorical maneuvers we have previously undertaken as we represent ourselves aiming for forms of
participatory engagement, thus offering both critique and self-critique. Previous poststructuralist accounts in this area
have drawn on “philosophers of difference,” but mainly Deleuze and Guattari. This piece offers innovation in harnessing
aspects of Badiou’s thinking to issues surrounding “discourses of disability” and notions of the research “self” in its various
“impersonations.
The role of war in deep transitions: exploring mechanisms, imprints and rules in sociotechnical systems
This paper explores in what ways the two world wars influenced the development of sociotechnical systems underpinning the culmination of the first deep transition. The role of war is an underexplored aspect in both the Techno-Economic Paradigms (TEP) approach and the Multi-level perspective (MLP) which form the two key conceptual building blocks of the Deep Transitions (DT) framework. Thus, we develop a conceptual approach tailored to this particular topic which integrates accounts of total war and mechanisms of war from historical studies and imprinting from organisational studies with the DT framework’s attention towards rules and meta-rules. We explore in what ways the three sociotechnical systems of energy, food, and transport were affected by the emergence of new demand pressures and logistical challenges during conditions of total war; how war impacted the directionality of sociotechnical systems; the extent to which new national and international policy capacities emerged during wartime in the energy, food, and transport systems; and the extent to which these systems were influenced by cooperation and shared sacrifice under wartime conditions. We then explore what lasting changes were influenced by the two wars in the energy, food, and transport systems across the transatlantic zone. This paper seeks to open up a hitherto neglected area in analysis on sociotechnical transitions and we discuss the importance of further research that is attentive towards entanglements of warfare and the military particularly in the field of sustainability transitions