Sebastian Abrahamsson
Biographic Data
| ID | 105350 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sebastian Abrahamsson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sebastian |
| FAMILY NAME | Abrahamsson |
| SIGNATURE | ABRAHAMSSON S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5247-5145 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 165 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
A defense of waste: The case of municipal food recycling in Sweden
This article is an empirical analysis of food waste management and food recycling in Sweden. Currently, across Sweden, attempts are being made to achieve a circular economy whereby food wastes are transformed into resources. Food waste is used to produce biogas and bio fertilizer, and the enactment of food waste as a resource turns the waste into a raw material over which waste management organizations compete. Against this backdrop, the article …
Becoming stronger by becoming weaker: The hunger strike as a mode of doing politics
Living with Omega-3: New Materialism and Enduring Concerns
In the early 21st century quite a few social scientists and scholars in the humanities are arguing that we should pay more attention to things material. For, as they say, not only humans act but so, too, do materials. Joining this discussion, in this paper we will use the case of omega-3 fatty acids to address the questions of how materials may act; in which ways this is relevant; and what is linked up with it. Hence, we will come to speak about …
An actor network analysis of constipation and agency: Shit happens
Cooking, eating and digesting: Notes on the emergent normativities of food and speeds
This article analyses conflicting versions of speed and temporal work that are involved in engaging with food. The dominant discourses around fast and slow food are challenged and extended by juxtaposing three kinds of food-related activities: cooking, eating, and digesting. Drawing on a wide range of empirical and theoretical examples and dietary advice, I illustrate how modes of engaging with foods also produce and come with specific “goods” an…
Compost Politics: Experimenting with Togetherness in Vermicomposting
Emerging from the question of how to live together with our planet, more-than-human approaches to interspecies relations have often presented 'cozy' versions of conviviality (Whatmore 2002; Haraway 2008; Hinchliffe 2010). This was usually set against a (supposedly) exclusionary politics of nature, in a move that betrayed a still largely humanist ethics. From the focus on friendly companions, to the attention to practices of care or living-togethe…
Empiricist Interventions: Strategy and Tactics on the Ontopolitical Battlefield
Recent papers by prominent scholars in science and technology studies (notably John Law and Bruno Latour) have crystallized a fundamental disagreement about the scope and purpose of intervention in actor-network theory or what we here choose to bracket as empirical philosophy. While the precept of agnostic description is taken as a given, the desired effects of such descriptions are highly debated: Is the goal to interfere with the singularity of…
The limits of the body: Boundaries, Capacities, Thresholds
In conversation with the body conveniently known as Stelarc
Living with Omega-3: New Materialism and Enduring Concerns
In the early 21st century quite a few social scientists and scholars in the humanities are arguing that we should pay more attention to things material. For, as they say, not only humans act but so, too, do materials. Joining this discussion, in this paper we will use the case of omega-3 fatty acids to address the questions of how materials may act; in which ways this is relevant; and what is linked up with it. Hence, we will come to speak about …
Compost Politics: Experimenting with Togetherness in Vermicomposting
Emerging from the question of how to live together with our planet, more-than-human approaches to interspecies relations have often presented 'cozy' versions of conviviality (Whatmore 2002; Haraway 2008; Hinchliffe 2010). This was usually set against a (supposedly) exclusionary politics of nature, in a move that betrayed a still largely humanist ethics. From the focus on friendly companions, to the attention to practices of care or living-togethe…
The limits of the body: Boundaries, Capacities, Thresholds
In conversation with the body conveniently known as Stelarc
Becoming stronger by becoming weaker: The hunger strike as a mode of doing politics
An actor network analysis of constipation and agency: Shit happens
A defense of waste: The case of municipal food recycling in Sweden
This article is an empirical analysis of food waste management and food recycling in Sweden. Currently, across Sweden, attempts are being made to achieve a circular economy whereby food wastes are transformed into resources. Food waste is used to produce biogas and bio fertilizer, and the enactment of food waste as a resource turns the waste into a raw material over which waste management organizations compete. Against this backdrop, the article …
In conversation with the body conveniently known as Stelarc
The limits of the body: Boundaries, Capacities, Thresholds
Empiricist Interventions: Strategy and Tactics on the Ontopolitical Battlefield
Recent papers by prominent scholars in science and technology studies (notably John Law and Bruno Latour) have crystallized a fundamental disagreement about the scope and purpose of intervention in actor-network theory or what we here choose to bracket as empirical philosophy. While the precept of agnostic description is taken as a given, the desired effects of such descriptions are highly debated: Is the goal to interfere with the singularity of…
An actor network analysis of constipation and agency: Shit happens
Cooking, eating and digesting: Notes on the emergent normativities of food and speeds
This article analyses conflicting versions of speed and temporal work that are involved in engaging with food. The dominant discourses around fast and slow food are challenged and extended by juxtaposing three kinds of food-related activities: cooking, eating, and digesting. Drawing on a wide range of empirical and theoretical examples and dietary advice, I illustrate how modes of engaging with foods also produce and come with specific “goods” an…
Compost Politics: Experimenting with Togetherness in Vermicomposting
Emerging from the question of how to live together with our planet, more-than-human approaches to interspecies relations have often presented 'cozy' versions of conviviality (Whatmore 2002; Haraway 2008; Hinchliffe 2010). This was usually set against a (supposedly) exclusionary politics of nature, in a move that betrayed a still largely humanist ethics. From the focus on friendly companions, to the attention to practices of care or living-togethe…
Living with Omega-3: New Materialism and Enduring Concerns
In the early 21st century quite a few social scientists and scholars in the humanities are arguing that we should pay more attention to things material. For, as they say, not only humans act but so, too, do materials. Joining this discussion, in this paper we will use the case of omega-3 fatty acids to address the questions of how materials may act; in which ways this is relevant; and what is linked up with it. Hence, we will come to speak about …
Becoming stronger by becoming weaker: The hunger strike as a mode of doing politics
A defense of waste: The case of municipal food recycling in Sweden
This article is an empirical analysis of food waste management and food recycling in Sweden. Currently, across Sweden, attempts are being made to achieve a circular economy whereby food wastes are transformed into resources. Food waste is used to produce biogas and bio fertilizer, and the enactment of food waste as a resource turns the waste into a raw material over which waste management organizations compete. Against this backdrop, the article …
Sociology (8 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works)