20 research outputs found
Age and Ageing in Contemporary Speculative and Science Fiction, edited by Sarah Falcus and Maricel OrĂł-Piqueras
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Submitted: 24Â October 2023
Published: 22 December 202
Tentacular Classrooms: Feminist Transformative Learning for Thinking and Sensing
Integrative transformative learning in a feminist perspective asks students to engage in potentially troublesome and unsettling debates, to confront their own privilege and situated knowledges, and to experiment with conventional boundaries for knowledge production. We introduce the idea of the âtentacular classroomâ grounded in the work of Haraway on tentacular thinking to show the ways in which the learning encounter, figured as a tentacular organism, allows for co-production and multiplicity in knowledge production. Through two illustrative examples from gender studies classrooms, we show what is at stake when unruly tentacles become involved in disrupting the boundedness imposed on teaching and learning in the neo-liberal university context. We conclude that a tentacular classroom entails confrontations with troublesome knowledges but also with troublesome unlearning as well, leading teachers and learners to an alternative point of departure for the learning encounter.publishedVersio
Posthumanistiske muligheter og transhumanistiske blindspor i det antropocene
BÄde posthumanisme og transhumanisme er innganger til Ä problematisere grensene mellom teknologi, natur og mennesker i en tid der menneskene pÄvirker planeten jorden pÄ helt fundamentale mÄter. Den menneskelige pÄvirkningen er sÄ stor at det argumenteres for at jorden nÄ er inne i en ny geologisk tidsalder, navngitt som den «antropocene» tidsalder. I denne artikkelen gjÞr vi rede for transhumanisme og posthumanisme som ulike posisjoner i nye diskusjoner om menneskets rolle og ansvar i det antropocene. Vi drÞfter prinsipielle etiske, vitenskapsteoretiske og politiske forskjeller mellom dem. Transhumanisme handler om radikal «forbedring» av mennesket gjennom utnytting av teknovitenskapelige nyvinninger, mens posthumanisme i stÞrre grad handler om mennesket i relasjon til det ikke-menneskelige, slik som teknologi, klima og dyr. Med vekt pÄ feministisk vitenskapskritikk og feministisk Þkologi argumenterer vi for at posthumanisme er et viktig tenkeverktÞy for Ä problematisere, forstÄ og utfordre menneskets tradisjonelle posisjon og rolle i antropocen tidsalder. I motsetning til transhumanisme, som representerer en vedvarende menneskesentrert posisjon, er posthumanisme, og da sÊrlig feministisk posthumanisme, en teoretisk posisjon som ser utover forestillingen om et universelt menneske og fastholder en mindre hierarkisk tilnÊrming til hvordan mangfoldige arter, kropper, Þkosystemer og teknologier stÄr i relasjon til hverandre.publishedVersio
CARING FUTURES: a study protocol for transdisciplinary qualitative research on technology-mediated care practices and theory development for ethics of care
Introduction The worldâs population is ageing. As older persons live longer and increase in number, society faces a greater disease burden and, in public welfare, a corresponding resource deficit. New technology is one solution to this deficit but there is scarce knowledge about ethical aspects of such innovations in care practices. In CARING FUTURES, we address this scarcity by interrogating how new technology in care can become ethically sound and, correspondingly, how ethics of care can become more technology aware. Our concern is to protect quality care for the future. Methods and analysis CARING FUTURES advances transdisciplinarity through knowledge exchange around technology-mediated care and ethics of care, involving key stakeholders. We rely on established and innovative methods to generate experience-near and practice-near knowledge. Through this empirical research, we seek to expand understanding of technology-mediated care and to enrich ethics of care theory. Ethics and dissemination Empirical studies have been approved or await approval by national ethics committees. CARING FUTURES is designed to create societal impact through Knowledge Transfer Events targeting stakeholders in health, care and welfare, and Educational Packages for students of careâproviding knowledge-exchange forums for future academics and practitioners of care. The projectâs societal impact is also ensured in that participating researchers are also practitioners and/or educators of care personnel for the future. Project findings will be disseminated through scientific publications and conference presentations. Through communication in both traditional and digital media platforms, we engage in dialogues between researchers, user groups, policy makers and the wider public.publishedVersio
Ethics of care in technology-mediated healthcare practices: A scoping review
Background
Introducing new technologies into healthcare practices may challenge professionals' traditional care cultures. The aim of this review was to map how the âethics of careâ theoretical framework informs empirical studies of technology-mediated healthcare.
Method
A scoping review was performed using eight electronic databases: CINAHL with full text, Academic Search Premier, MEDLINE, the Philosopher's Index, SocINDEX with Full Text, SCOPUS, APA PsycInfo and Web of Science. This was followed by citation tracking, and articles were assessed against the inclusion criteria.
Results
Of the 443 initial articles, 18 met the criteria and were included. We found that nine of the articles used the concept of âethics of careâ (herein used interchangeably with the terms âfeminist ethicsâ or ârelational ethicsâ) insubstantially. The remaining nine articles deployed care ethics (or its equivalent) substantially as an integrated theoretical framework and analytical tool. We found that several articles suggested an expansion of ethics of care to encompass technologies as part of contemporary care. Furthermore, ethics of care contributed to the empirical research by recognising both new relationships between patients and healthcare professionals as well as new ethical challenges.
Conclusion
Ethics of care is sparsely used as a theoretical framework in empirical studies of technology-mediated healthcare practices. The use of ethics of care in technology-mediated care brings new dilemmas, relational tensions and vulnerabilities to the foreground. For ethics of care to be used more explicit in empirical studies, it is important that it is recognised by research community as an adequate, universal ethical theory.publishedVersio
Posthumanistiske muligheter og transhumanistiske blindspor i det antropocene
BÄde posthumanisme og transhumanisme er innganger til Ä problematisere grensene mellom teknologi, natur og mennesker i en tid der menneskene pÄvirker planeten jorden pÄ helt fundamentale mÄter. Den menneskelige pÄvirkningen er sÄ stor at det argumenteres for at jorden nÄ er inne i en ny geologisk tidsalder, navngitt som den «antropocene» tidsalder. I denne artikkelen gjÞr vi rede for transhumanisme og posthumanisme som ulike posisjoner i nye diskusjoner om menneskets rolle og ansvar i det antropocene. Vi drÞfter prinsipielle etiske, vitenskapsteoretiske og politiske forskjeller mellom dem. Transhumanisme handler om radikal «forbedring» av mennesket gjennom utnytting av teknovitenskapelige nyvinninger, mens posthumanisme i stÞrre grad handler om mennesket i relasjon til det ikke-menneskelige, slik som teknologi, klima og dyr. Med vekt pÄ feministisk vitenskapskritikk og feministisk Þkologi argumenterer vi for at posthumanisme er et viktig tenkeverktÞy for Ä problematisere, forstÄ og utfordre menneskets tradisjonelle posisjon og rolle i antropocen tidsalder. I motsetning til transhumanisme, som representerer en vedvarende menneskesentrert posisjon, er posthumanisme, og da sÊrlig feministisk posthumanisme, en teoretisk posisjon som ser utover forestillingen om et universelt menneske og fastholder en mindre hierarkisk tilnÊrming til hvordan mangfoldige arter, kropper, Þkosystemer og teknologier stÄr i relasjon til hverandre.publishedVersio
Livshistorier i omsorgsarbeid. Utfordringer og muligheter ved bruk av livshistoriedokumentasjon pÄ sykehjem
Nyere helse- og omsorgspolitiske dokumenter lÞfter fram livshistorier som en viktig kilde til kunnskap i eldreomsorgen, og et relevant verktÞy for profesjonelt omsorgsarbeid pÄ sykehjemmet. Men hvilke utfordringer og muligheter ligger i livshistorier som omsorgsverktÞy i praksis? Denne artikkelen er basert pÄ et tverrfaglig samarbeidsprosjekt mellom forskere innenfor praksisfeltet, sykepleierstudenter, samfunnsvitere, helsevitere og humanister. VÄr hensikt er Ä fÄ ny kunnskap om utbredelse av livshistorier som omsorgsverktÞy pÄ sykehjem, og hva som karakteriserer slike verktÞy. Ved hjelp av en kartleggingsstudie om livshistorier som et verktÞy for dokumentasjon og kommunikasjon ved sykehjem i en region pÄ Vestlandet, fant vi stor variasjon i utforming av skjemaene som brukes til Ä dokumentere pasientenes livshistorie. Gjennom en komparativ nÊrlesning av skjemaenes stilistiske utforminger og kommunikasjonsformer, drÞfter vi implikasjonene av det vi ser som en utfordrende sammenblanding av instrumentelle og relasjonelle hensikter ved bruk av livshistorier i profesjonell omsorg.publishedVersio
Psychosocial and symbolic dimensions of the breast explored through a Visual Matrix
This article explores knowledge about the breast in the psychosocial interplay of lived experience, addressing a gap in empirical research on this highly gendered cultural trope and embodied organ. We present findings from a study that used a free-associative psychosocial method â the Visual Matrix â in order to stimulate, and capture expressions of, tacit aspects of the breast that have evaded discursive representation, as well as to generate understanding of relations between embodied and enculturated experience. Little research has been conducted on womenâs affirmative experience of breasts, possibly because their bio-psycho-sociocultural complexity affords an onto-epistemological and empirical challenge. Our data revealed how an aesthetic of the grotesque in one matrix allowed the mainly female group to use humour as a âcreative psychic defenceâ against culturally normative and idealised aspects of the breast. This was expressed through sensual symbolisations of breasted experience, affectively delivered with exuberance and joy. There was an emphasis on the breastâs potency and its potential for both abundant nurturance and potent âweaponisationâ. By establishing this feminine poetic mode, Visual Matrix imagery symbolised life and death as tolerable, inseparable yet ambiguous dimensions of breasts, thereby resisting anxious splitting. The breastâs life-affirming qualities included the sensual, the visceral and the joyful â a materialsemiotic knowing. This was in marked contrast to a second matrix where associations were weighted towards the spectacular breast of an ocular-centric culture that privileges heteromasculine looking. This matrix reflected a more ambivalent and sometimes troubled response among participants. Reasons for the difference between the two matrices are discussed in terms of how they responded to the tension between embodied and enculturated experiences