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Åsberg, C. (2024). Blue Humanities Reading Science: Eating at the Edge of the Sea. In: Pramod K Nayar (Ed.), SDGs, Precarity and Literary Studies: UNESCO CHAIR in Vulnerability Studies - University of Hyderabad. Paper presented at SDGs, Precarity and Literary Studies. Hyderabad, India, 1
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Blue Humanities Reading Science: Eating at the Edge of the Sea
2024 (English)In: SDGs, Precarity and Literary Studies: UNESCO CHAIR in Vulnerability Studies - University of Hyderabad / [ed] Pramod K Nayar, Hyderabad, India, 2024, Vol. 1Conference paper, Oral presentation with published abstract (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

“Who has known the ocean? Neither you nor I, with our earth-bound senses, know the foam and surge of the tide that beats over the crab hiding under seaweed of his tide-pool home; or the lilt of the long, slow swells of mid-ocean, where the shoals of wandering fish prey and are preyed upon, and the dolphin breaks the waves to breathe the upper atmosphere”

(Rachel Carson, “Undersea” The Atlantic, September 1937)  

The ocean is the planet’s largest ecosystem. The stakes inherent in climate change have turned out to be entangled in the hazards affecting coastal and marine ecosystems. Scientists around the world have provided evidence that global warming is interlinked with rising sea levels, with the warming and acidification of oceans, with the dwindling of fish populations, the bleaching of coral reefs, and with an increasing number of endangered marine species. Scientific facts have made us realise that the future of our blue planet, a marine habitat per default, hinges on the blueing of our cultural imaginary. Situated in northern climes myself, I learn that global warming unfolds four times faster in Arctic waters than anywhere else on the planet. Slow but violent changes to marine environs and blue biodiversity (in for instance my own “backyard” betwixt the Baltic Sea and the North Atlantic Sea) have in Sweden been understood as nested problems in need of increased scientific and technological solutions. In contrast, I will in this talk begin from the position that these interlinked problems of human environmental impact on oceans and coastal areas require connected, affective and cultural approaches of environmental literacy to complement scientific data on how to consume better with the sea. Helpful in this regard is the rise in feminist oceanic science fiction novels over the last few years. Titles include Nnedi Okorafor’s Lagoon (2014), Mira Grant’s Into the Drowning Deep (2017), Rivers Solomon’s The Deep (2019) and Julia Armfield’s Our Wifes under the Sea (2022). 

Myself, I will explore a couple of “alien species” in these waters, ranging cannisters of mustard gas to Pacific oysters and other storied bodies out of order, so to try to provide counter-narratives on how to reinvent our consumerist imaginary and nourish a new sense of relationality. 

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Hyderabad, India: , 2024
National Category
Gender Studies Other Humanities
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-205882 (URN)
Conference
SDGs, Precarity and Literary Studies
Projects
UN SDG, UNESCO, Posthumanities Hub
Available from: 2024-07-08 Created: 2024-07-08 Last updated: 2025-01-31Bibliographically approved
Åsberg, C. & Braidotti, R. (2024). Feminist Posthumanities: Redefining and Expanding Humanities’ Foundations (1ed.). In: Rosi Braidotti, Hiltraud Casper-Hehne, Marjan Ivković and Daan F. Oostveen (Ed.), The Edinburgh Companion to the New European Humanities: . Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Feminist Posthumanities: Redefining and Expanding Humanities’ Foundations
2024 (English)In: The Edinburgh Companion to the New European Humanities / [ed] Rosi Braidotti, Hiltraud Casper-Hehne, Marjan Ivković and Daan F. Oostveen, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2024, 1Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

In the concluding chapter (chapter 17 of EUP's book The Edinburgh Companion to the New Humanities, written by Cecilia Åsberg and Rosi Braidotti, the emergence and need for versatile forms of feminist posthumanities is mapped out. Åsberg and Braidotti, building on their respective previous works on feminist posthumanities and the posthuman in feminist philosophy, describe and introduce a multi-valent new field of research fields within and beyond the new humanities. 

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2024 Edition: 1
Keywords
New humanities
National Category
Humanities and the Arts Other Humanities Philosophy, Ethics and Religion Languages and Literature Gender Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-196145 (URN)10.1515/9781399505208-021 (DOI)9781399505192 (ISBN)9781399505215 (ISBN)9781399505208 (ISBN)
Projects
The Posthumanities Hub
Available from: 2023-07-03 Created: 2023-07-03 Last updated: 2025-01-31Bibliographically approved
Elgh, C. & Åsberg, C. (2024). Posthumanism: Sällsamma släktskap och vattenvärldar. In: : . Paper presented at Vetenskapsfestivalen, Göteborg, april, 2024..
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Posthumanism: Sällsamma släktskap och vattenvärldar
2024 (Swedish)Conference paper, Oral presentation only (Other academic)
Keywords
Feministisk posthumaniora, havshumaniora, samtidskonst, science fiction.
National Category
Other Humanities not elsewhere specified
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-203638 (URN)
Conference
Vetenskapsfestivalen, Göteborg, april, 2024.
Available from: 2024-05-21 Created: 2024-05-21 Last updated: 2024-10-24Bibliographically approved
Åsberg, C. (2024). Posthumanities as Multispecies Tales:: Storying Exposure. In: Pramod K Nayar (Ed.), UNESCO CHAR in Vulnerability Studies - University of Hyderabad Short Term Program:: UN Sustainable Development Goals, Precarity and Literary Studies. Paper presented at SDGs, Precarity and Literary Studies. Hyderabad, India, 1
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Posthumanities as Multispecies Tales:: Storying Exposure
2024 (English)In: UNESCO CHAR in Vulnerability Studies - University of Hyderabad Short Term Program:: UN Sustainable Development Goals, Precarity and Literary Studies / [ed] Pramod K Nayar, Hyderabad, India, 2024, Vol. 1Conference paper, Oral presentation with published abstract (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

UNESCO TALK 1. Posthumanities as Multispecies Tales: STORYING EXPOSURE

Cecilia Åsberg

 

In an all too humanized world, environmental storytelling finds itself in desperate times but also in times of opportunity. It matters what stories tell stories, stated Marilyn Strathern (1992:10), a feminist anthropologist of science already in the 1990s. Building on that embrace of storytelling, Donna J Haraway (2016 a:12), famously continued: “It matters what matters we use to think other matters with; it matters what stories we tell to tell other stories with; it matters /…/, what thoughts think thoughts, what descriptions describe descriptions […]. It matters what stories make worlds; what worlds make stories.” Put simply, wording is a conduit of worlding. In this very interdisciplinary scenario, all kinds of story-telling matters. From various perspectives to responsive posthumanities that I bring together in this talk, I wish here to give some theoretical and empirical examples of the practices I have come to term storying exposure. 

 

Threats and fears of looming environmental crisis instils a conservative emergency response in people (Mbembe & Roitman 1995), to look out only for themselves and not for others, to stay in line. This means we need today to work harder than ever before to produce stories and expositions that instil a sense of wordly belonging and local community. Literature, reading and vulnerability studies have a special role in this. Recent works in environmental humanities, ecocriticism and place-based storytelling (Haraway 2014; Alaimo 2016; van Dooren 2014; DeSilvey 2017) have explored many types of exposure stories. From The Word for World is Forest by Ursula LeGuin to Animal’s People by Indra Sinha. There is even a growing tendency in Environmental Humanities to seek accounts for giving polarized debates and heating climates, stressed environments and communities storied form in ways that might eschew the trap of focusing only on “damage stories.” Vary of the performative power of storytelling, a stance of proud pessimism and cynicism (disguised as criticism) is rejected because it may hinder unexpected possibilities social change. There is always more afoot, and reasons for surprise. Many seek expressions instead of ways of living well with and caring for, in the words of queer eco-critic Cate Sandilands, the “wounds of the world.” Indeed, experimenting with the triangular relation between self, word and world is itself a form of exposure. In academic and extra-academic settings, I have come to call such affirmative practices posthumanities – for how they bridge arts and sciences, natures and cultures, words and worlds. Storying exposure is here understood as methodological umbrella term for such “arts of living on a damaged planet” (Tsing et al) that we can jointly explore and develop for very interdisciplinary research, in-field philosophies, eco-critique and place-storied forms of situated knowledges.

 

             References:             

Mbembe, Achille, and Janet Roitman. 1995. "Figures of the Subject in Times of Crisis."  Public Culture 7 (323-352). 

Alaimo, S. (2016) Exposed: environmental politics and pleasures in posthuman times (University of Minnesota Press)

DeSilvey, C. (2017) Curating Decay (University of Minnesota Press)

Haraway, D. (2014) Staying with the Trouble: Making kin in the Chthulucene (Duke University Press)

van Dooren, T. (2014) Flight Ways: life and loss at the edge of extinction (Colombia University Press)

 

 

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Hyderabad, India: , 2024
Keywords
storying exposure, more-than-human humanities, multispecies tales, posthuman literary studies
National Category
Humanities and the Arts Natural Sciences
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-205881 (URN)
Conference
SDGs, Precarity and Literary Studies
Projects
UN SDG, UNESCO
Available from: 2024-07-08 Created: 2024-07-08 Last updated: 2024-09-20Bibliographically approved
Åsberg, C. (2024). Storying exposure with the transversal methods of ecocritique. In: Camilla Brudin Borg, Rikard Wingård, Jørgen Bruhn (Ed.), Contemporary ecocritical methods: (pp. 265-278). Lanham: Lexington Books, Sidorna 265-278
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Storying exposure with the transversal methods of ecocritique
2024 (English)In: Contemporary ecocritical methods / [ed] Camilla Brudin Borg, Rikard Wingård, Jørgen Bruhn, Lanham: Lexington Books, 2024, Vol. Sidorna 265-278, p. 265-278Chapter in book (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Lanham: Lexington Books, 2024
Keywords
Ekokritik
National Category
Languages and Literature
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-203820 (URN)9781666937893 (ISBN)9781666937886 (ISBN)
Available from: 2024-05-28 Created: 2024-05-28 Last updated: 2024-05-28Bibliographically approved
Just, E., Udén, M., Weetzel, V. & Åsberg, C. (Eds.). (2024). Voices from Gender Studies. Negotiating the Terms of Academic Production, Epistemology, and the Logics and Contents of Identity. Abingdon: Routledge
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Voices from Gender Studies. Negotiating the Terms of Academic Production, Epistemology, and the Logics and Contents of Identity
2024 (English)Collection (editor) (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

The book is aimed at providing an assertion of Gender Studies as a vital community in our time, united in a commitment to inquiry. It brings forward an interdisciplinary set of early career researchers’ accounts of their motives for engaging in Gender Studies and, of the encounters with limitations as well as possibilities they experience on the paths they have chosen.

Each chapter is accompanied by a brief response paper where a more senior researcher involves in conversation with respective chapter’s content and shares reflections regarding Gender Studies, its integration, and developments. The first level corresponds with the significance of research in the field and its transformative power in and, crucially, outside the academia. The second relates to the value of networking and community building for doing research.

The book presents Gender Studies in a communicative, open manner that invites the reader to engage in and continue the displayed discussions. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of gender studies, sociology, queer studies, women’s studies, trans studies, anthropology, and literary studies.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Abingdon: Routledge, 2024. p. 234
Keywords
Könsidentitet
National Category
Gender Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-203069 (URN)9781032415826 (ISBN)9781003358794 (ISBN)
Available from: 2024-04-26 Created: 2024-04-26 Last updated: 2025-02-04Bibliographically approved
Åsberg, C. (2023). Coastline Exposure: Staying with the Wrack Zone. Holding Sway: Seaweeds and the Politics of Form
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2023 (English)In: Holding Sway: Seaweeds and the Politics of FormArticle in journal (Other academic) Published
Abstract [en]

Cecilia Åsberg’s documentation of the coastal “wrack zone” in Scandinavia pays close attention to histories of militarization near Gotland and the convergence of leftover munitions alongside seaweeds that have been washed ashore, also on the Swedish westcoast. Åsberg describes a picturesque coastal background where “bony white and gray rock meet brown algae and the hope of finding amber” against decades of industrial, often military, waste, ranging from World War leftovers of munitions and mustard gas to agricultural fertilizers. Swayed by the seaweeds themselves through modes of writing that reflect drifts in attention at field sites along Scandinavian coastlines, or finding solidarity with seaweeds against extractive or colonial regimes, this piece aims to story sea-side exposures beyond damage narratives. 

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
University of California Humanities Research Institute, 2023
Keywords
wrack zone, staying with the trouble, feminist blue posthumanities, environmental humanities, oceanic studies, seaweeds, coastline culture
National Category
Humanities and the Arts Gender Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-196157 (URN)
Available from: 2023-07-04 Created: 2023-07-04 Last updated: 2023-08-17
Haddow, G., Åsberg, C. & Timeto, F. (2023). Cyborg Figurations: Exploring the Intersections of Technology, Embodiment, Identity, and Ecology. Tecnoscienza: Italian Journal of Science and Technology Studies, 14(1), 123-154
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Cyborg Figurations: Exploring the Intersections of Technology, Embodiment, Identity, and Ecology
2023 (English)In: Tecnoscienza: Italian Journal of Science and Technology Studies, E-ISSN 2038-3460, Vol. 14, no 1, p. 123-154Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

This cross-disciplinary exploration delves into the multifaceted intersec-tions of technology, embodiment, identity, and ecology through the lens of cyborg knowing. The first contribution focuses on the vulnerabilities faced by individuals with implantable cardiac defibrillators (ICDs), emphasizing the crucial need for acclimatization strategies and agency in navigating their cybernetic embodiment as “everyday cyborg”. The second contribu-tion critically examines cultural technologies revealing their role in perpet-uating biases and advocates for interdisciplinary approaches, drawing on feminist STS and cyborg theory, to adaptively reshape societal constructs. Lastly, the third contribution envisions a comprehensive theory of cyber-zoa that extends the cyborg figuration to encompass nonhuman animals, fostering a post-anthropocentric perspective and an ecologically attuned examination of power relations, exploitation, and symmetrical relation-ships. By engaging with the concept of the cyborg, these contributions shed light on the complex dynamics and transformative potentials inher-ent in the realm of technology for both human and nonhuman lives

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Bologna: Tecnoscienza, 2023
Keywords
cyborg worlding, technology, identity, embodiment, ecology, techno-organic hybridity
National Category
Engineering and Technology Gender Studies Social Sciences Interdisciplinary Other Humanities not elsewhere specified
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-198272 (URN)10.6092/issn.2038-3460/17747 (DOI)001107157200004 ()
Available from: 2023-10-02 Created: 2023-10-02 Last updated: 2024-01-17Bibliographically approved
Åsberg, C. (2023). Cyborg Troubles: The Promises of Posthumanities. Tecnoscienza: Italian Journal of Science and Technology Studies, 14(1), 132-145
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Cyborg Troubles: The Promises of Posthumanities
2023 (English)In: Tecnoscienza: Italian Journal of Science and Technology Studies, E-ISSN 2038-3460, Vol. 14, no 1, p. 132-145Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

In this essay to the section Crossing Boundaries of OA journal Technoscienza, I discuss the plethora of interdisciplinary approaches to the present world troubles from the prism offered by Donna J Haraway's concept of the cyborg and the situated knowledges ensuing in its wake.  

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Milano: , 2023
Keywords
cyborg knowing, feminist posthumanities, posthumanities in societal practice, feminist posthumanism, Donna J Haraway
National Category
Humanities and the Arts Other Social Sciences Gender Studies Social Sciences Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies History of Technology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-196193 (URN)
Projects
AI and the Artistic Imaginary (WASP HS)
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Available from: 2023-07-05 Created: 2023-07-05 Last updated: 2024-08-12
Sykes, A. (2023). Prata med plantor - går det?. Stockholm, 7(6)
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Prata med plantor - går det?
2023 (Swedish)Other (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
Place, publisher, year, pages
Stockholm: , 2023
Keywords
plant theory, philosopher's plant, more-than-human humanities, feminist posthumanities
National Category
Humanities and the Arts Gender Studies Other Humanities Plant Biotechnology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-196238 (URN)
Projects
The Posthumanities Hub
Available from: 2023-07-07 Created: 2023-07-07 Last updated: 2025-01-31Bibliographically approved
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ORCID iD: ORCID iD iconorcid.org/0000-0001-7794-3806

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