Intra-active Entanglements – An Interview with Karen Barad

This interview was conducted on a balcony, overlooking the Mediterranean Sea (with airplanes taking off and landing above our heads) during the Third International Symposium on Process Organization Studies, at Corfu, Greece in June 2011. The symposium had the theme “How Matter Matters: Objects, Artifacts and Materiality in Organization Studies”. We talked the day after Karen Barad had given the keynote “Ma(r)king Time: Material Entanglements and Re-memberings: Cutting Together-Apart”

Beyond the insider/outsider debate in ‘at-home’ ethnographies:Diffractive methodology and the onto-epistemic entanglement of knowledge production

In this article, we discuss the practice of conducting research in one’s own field, in this case, from a position as a researcher with a nursing background doing field work in a hospital and in one’s own organization, an orthopedic surgical department. We show how an 'insider' researcher position paves the way for analytical insights about sleep as an institutional phenomenon in the orthopedic surgical infrastructure and how the acute and scheduled/planned patient trajectories differentiate but build on the same logic, creating the same dynamics of inclusion and exclusion. Through a situated and sociomaterial perspective, we analyze different clinical interactions in which we follow the hospital bed as an example of a central relational element that cocreates sleep as an institutional phenomenon. Inspired by Karen Barad, we demonstrate how to move diffractively when doing and analyzing fieldwork and argue how moving diffractively as a researcher doing field work ‘at home’ is productive and challenges the concept and demand of ‘distance’ as the phenomenological exercise in fieldwork.In this article, we discuss the practice of conducting research in one's own field, in this case, from a position as a researcher with a nursing background doing fieldwork in a hospital and in one's own organization, an orthopedic surgical department. We show how an “insider” researcher position paves the way for analytical insights about sleep as an institutional phenomenon in the orthopedic surgical infrastructure and how acute and elective patient trajectories differ but build on the same logic, creating the same dynamics of inclusion and exclusion. Through a situated and sociomaterial perspective, we analyze different clinical interactions in which we follow the hospital bed as an example of a central relational element that co‐creates sleep as an institutional phenomenon. Inspired by Karen Barad, we demonstrate how to move diffractively when doing and analyzing fieldwork and argue how moving diffractively as a researcher doing fieldwork “at home” is productive and challenges the conceptand demand of “distance” as the phenomenological exercise in fieldwor

De nye naturkrav: Gør dem til fordele frem for bøvl

I den nære fremtid kommer den nye EU-landbrugsstøtteordning til at stille krav om mindst fire procent naturforbedrende uproduktive arealer på alle landbrug. De nye krav kan på de fleste bedrifter let opfyldes gennem en simpel braklægning af de ringeste dyrkningsflader. Men de kan også være startskuddet til en helt ny tankegang omkring naturen på bedriften. Ved at etablere insektvolde, blomsterstriber, småbeplantninger, vådområder og diverse andre småbiotoper, kan landmænd igangsætte en reel og betydende natureffekt. Og naturen kan betale tilbage ved at understøtte den naturlige skadedyrsbekæmpelse og bestøvning i markerne (eksempel fra landmand, der deltager i Organic+)