Kristin Asdal, "Experiments in democracy: Emerging offices of nature"

Datum: 2013-06-04
Tid: 13.15 - 15.00
Plats: Humanisthuset, C 207
Evenemanget vänder sig till: studenter - allmänheten - anställda

How are we to analytically grasp environmental change? Or put differently; how can we grasp the ways in which natures are being taking into account? This lecture brings together these two approaches in the analysis of an ordinary technology of politics: the office. It argues that we risk missing too much if we let ordinary political institutions slip from our attention. It we are to grasp the ways in which nature is taken into account, maybe it´s precisely “the ordinariness” that ought to interest us? In trying this route, the slow and steady rhythm, the sometimes close to repetitiveness of the workings of ordinary political institutions, might be a fruitful place to start. Hence, in exploring environmental change, this paper attends to accounting practices, budget procedures and long term programs as they are practiced in governmental offices. Empirically the paper explores two such governmental settings or offices. Employing notions like interested objects, relational spaces and practices of timing the paper seeks to find ways for studying devices and technologies of politics while at the same time carefully trying to avoid taking “nature” as the relevant object for granted. Rather what interests me is to explore which emerging objects are taken into accounting and accounted for within offices of politics and administrations.

Kristin Asdal is professor of Science and Technology Studies at University of Oslo.

Föreläsare: Kristin Asdal
Arrangör: USSTE
Kontaktperson: Jenny Eklöf
USSTE hemsida
Evenemangstyp: Seminarieserie
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