Kate O’riordan
Biographic Data
| ID | 129051 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kate O’riordan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kate |
| FAMILY NAME | O’riordan |
| SIGNATURE | O’RIORDAN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sussex |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9419-2239 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 81 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Cultural, creative and collective recovery: Exploring a creative Worker income Guarantee (CWIG)
Income guarantee schemes and interventions have been considered both as basic income and sector specific interventions. This article focuses on the ideas of a sector specific intervention and evaluates existing schemes to inform a possible pilot. Cognisant of the critiques of UBI and sector intervention schemes, and the post-covid context, this research examines the question of whether it would be possible and/or desirable to develop a location-s…
Visual cultures of CRISPR: Intermedial Figuration in Science Communication
This article traces the visual culture of human genetic engineering over the past decade, focusing on the CRISPR genome editing technology. We argue that the representations surrounding CRISPR exemplify, and to an extent define, this visual culture. We examine the history of CRISPR, particularly its human applications from 2012 to 2022, through a periodization that includes the CRISPR craze, gene therapy initiatives, the He Jiankui controversy an…
Mammoths and tigers and rhinos, oh my: Mapping De-Extinction Species and Networks
Liveability, environment and policy: Reflections on trans student experience of entering UK higher education
This article examines the intersection of lived experience and equality policy in UK Higher Education (HE), focusing on trans students’ experiences of planning for and applying to University. The research is based on participatory research with an lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer / questioning (LGBTQ+) youth project in Brighton, UK. We frame the relationship between trans identities and equalities in education in terms of liveability. T…
Queering genealogies: Introduction to the Special Section
This special section of Feminist Theory explores the theme of ‘Queering Genealogies’. It brings together work which explores intersections of queering, queerness, biotechnology,kinship relations, genealogy and inter generational relations. It unites two areas of study:queer kinship studies; and queer science studies. The section was edited by Dr Elizabeth Reed and Dr Kate O’Riordan, and our focus is on queer family making, kinship relations,genea…
What’s in a name: The politics of queer on campus
This paper draws upon oral history interviews and archival work carried out to examine the history of the LGBTQ+ student society at the University of Sussex. It reflects upon the significance of the Society’s name change over time (from GaySoc in the 1970s to its contemporary formation as the LGBTQ+ Society) and considers the role of the Society and its members as an active political and sociable group, concerned with a broad range of political a…
The Cambridge Companion to Queer Studies
This chapter examines queer digital culture, a term that refers to the ways in which LGBTQ+ identities, practices, and theories have been mixed up in the emergence, design, and constitution of digital technology. It highlights significant shifts at the intersections of queer identity and politics and digital communication technologies from the 1980s to the early twenty-first century, including transitions from textual to audiovisual media; from s…
Life and the Technological: Cyborgs, Companions, and the Chthulucene
Donna Haraway’s cyborg is a widely traveled figure with an important relation to life writing. This article traces the cyborg through modes of life writing and routes through feminist science fiction and science studies. It examines attachments and anger, looking at the return of the alienated cyborg in recent accounts of Haraway’s work.One of Donna Haraway’s most charismatic and widely travelled figures is that of the cyborg. It emerges as a fig…
The first bite: Imaginaries, promotional publics and the laboratory grown burger
In this article, we analyse a 2013 press conference hosting the world’s first tasting of a laboratory grown hamburger. We explore this as a media event: an exceptional performative moment in which common meanings are mobilised and a connection to a shared centre of reality is offered. We develop our own theoretical contribution – the promotional public – to characterise the affirmative and partial patchwork of carefully selected actors invoked du…
Public knowledge-making and the media: Genes, genetics, cloning and Mass Observation
Media analysis of public engagement with genetics and cloning is dominated by media genre-specific or issue-specific analysis. Such analyses tend to frame genetics as a new technology, and media resources as current and immediate. Broader public discourses tend towards marginalising public knowledge as against expert voices. This article takes a broader perspective to demonstrate that people engage with multiple media genres over an extensive tim…
Training to self-care: Fitness Tracking, Biopedagogy and the Healthy Consumer
In this article, we provide an account ofFitbit, a wearable sensor device, using two complementary analytical approaches: auto-ethnography and media analysis. Drawing on the concept of biopedagogy, which describes the processes of learning and training bodies how to live, we focus on how users learn to self-care with wearable technologies through a series of micropractices that involve processes of mediation and the sharing of their own data via …
Genetics and the Media
Biodigital Publics: Personal Genomes as Digital Media Artefacts
The recent proliferation of personal genomics and direct-to-consumer (DTC) genomics has attracted much attention and publicity. Concern around these developments has mainly focused on issues of biomedical regulation and hinged on questions of how people understand genomic information as biomedical and what meaning they make of it. However, this publicity amplifies genome sequences which are also made as internet \ntexts and, as such, they generat…
The Life of the Gay Gene: From Hypothetical Genetic Marker to Social Reality
The gay gene was first identified in 1993 as a correlation between the genetic marker Xq28 and gay male sexuality. The results of this original study were never replicated, and the biological reality of such an entity remains hypothetical. However, despite such tenuous provenance, the gay gene has persisted as a reference in science news, popular science writings, and in press releases and editorials about biomedical research. An examination of t…
Writing Biodigital Life: Personal Genomes and Digital Media
A recent proliferation of genome sequences and scans, and direct-to-consumer genomic services, has also led to a boom in life writing in this area. This article examines some of the contradictions in tales from the genome as they are told by an elite group of genomic biographers
From reproduction to research: Sourcing eggs, IVF and cloning in the UK
This article provides an analysis of the relationships between IVF and therapeutic cloning, as they played out in the UK Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority consultation of 2006: Donating Eggs for Research: Safeguarding Donors. We develop an account of current developments in IVF and cloning which foregrounds the role of mediation in structuring the discursive context in which they are constituted. We foreground the imperative of choice …
Human Cloning in Film: Horror, Ambivalence, Hope
Fictional filmic representations of human cloning have shifted in relation to the 1997 announcement of the birth of Dolly the cloned sheep, and since therapeutic human cloning became a scientific practice in the early twentieth century. The operation and detail of these shifts can be seen through an analysis of the films The Island and Aeon Flux . These films provide a site for the examination of how these changes in human cloning from fiction to…
From usenet to Gaydar: A Comment on Queer Online Community
This paper provides a brief overview and introduction to the intersections between queer theory and online community in the UK and USA in the 1990s. Different communities and theoretical paradigms that relate to this are examined
Ethics of Internet research: Contesting the human subjects research model
Training to self-care: Fitness Tracking, Biopedagogy and the Healthy Consumer
In this article, we provide an account ofFitbit, a wearable sensor device, using two complementary analytical approaches: auto-ethnography and media analysis. Drawing on the concept of biopedagogy, which describes the processes of learning and training bodies how to live, we focus on how users learn to self-care with wearable technologies through a series of micropractices that involve processes of mediation and the sharing of their own data via …
Biodigital Publics: Personal Genomes as Digital Media Artefacts
The recent proliferation of personal genomics and direct-to-consumer (DTC) genomics has attracted much attention and publicity. Concern around these developments has mainly focused on issues of biomedical regulation and hinged on questions of how people understand genomic information as biomedical and what meaning they make of it. However, this publicity amplifies genome sequences which are also made as internet \ntexts and, as such, they generat…
Human Cloning in Film: Horror, Ambivalence, Hope
Fictional filmic representations of human cloning have shifted in relation to the 1997 announcement of the birth of Dolly the cloned sheep, and since therapeutic human cloning became a scientific practice in the early twentieth century. The operation and detail of these shifts can be seen through an analysis of the films The Island and Aeon Flux . These films provide a site for the examination of how these changes in human cloning from fiction to…
The Life of the Gay Gene: From Hypothetical Genetic Marker to Social Reality
The gay gene was first identified in 1993 as a correlation between the genetic marker Xq28 and gay male sexuality. The results of this original study were never replicated, and the biological reality of such an entity remains hypothetical. However, despite such tenuous provenance, the gay gene has persisted as a reference in science news, popular science writings, and in press releases and editorials about biomedical research. An examination of t…
From reproduction to research: Sourcing eggs, IVF and cloning in the UK
This article provides an analysis of the relationships between IVF and therapeutic cloning, as they played out in the UK Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority consultation of 2006: Donating Eggs for Research: Safeguarding Donors. We develop an account of current developments in IVF and cloning which foregrounds the role of mediation in structuring the discursive context in which they are constituted. We foreground the imperative of choice …
Public knowledge-making and the media: Genes, genetics, cloning and Mass Observation
Media analysis of public engagement with genetics and cloning is dominated by media genre-specific or issue-specific analysis. Such analyses tend to frame genetics as a new technology, and media resources as current and immediate. Broader public discourses tend towards marginalising public knowledge as against expert voices. This article takes a broader perspective to demonstrate that people engage with multiple media genres over an extensive tim…
Mammoths and tigers and rhinos, oh my: Mapping De-Extinction Species and Networks
Queering genealogies: Introduction to the Special Section
This special section of Feminist Theory explores the theme of ‘Queering Genealogies’. It brings together work which explores intersections of queering, queerness, biotechnology,kinship relations, genealogy and inter generational relations. It unites two areas of study:queer kinship studies; and queer science studies. The section was edited by Dr Elizabeth Reed and Dr Kate O’Riordan, and our focus is on queer family making, kinship relations,genea…
Ethics of Internet research: Contesting the human subjects research model
From usenet to Gaydar: A Comment on Queer Online Community
This paper provides a brief overview and introduction to the intersections between queer theory and online community in the UK and USA in the 1990s. Different communities and theoretical paradigms that relate to this are examined
Human Cloning in Film: Horror, Ambivalence, Hope
Fictional filmic representations of human cloning have shifted in relation to the 1997 announcement of the birth of Dolly the cloned sheep, and since therapeutic human cloning became a scientific practice in the early twentieth century. The operation and detail of these shifts can be seen through an analysis of the films The Island and Aeon Flux . These films provide a site for the examination of how these changes in human cloning from fiction to…
From reproduction to research: Sourcing eggs, IVF and cloning in the UK
This article provides an analysis of the relationships between IVF and therapeutic cloning, as they played out in the UK Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority consultation of 2006: Donating Eggs for Research: Safeguarding Donors. We develop an account of current developments in IVF and cloning which foregrounds the role of mediation in structuring the discursive context in which they are constituted. We foreground the imperative of choice …
Writing Biodigital Life: Personal Genomes and Digital Media
A recent proliferation of genome sequences and scans, and direct-to-consumer genomic services, has also led to a boom in life writing in this area. This article examines some of the contradictions in tales from the genome as they are told by an elite group of genomic biographers
The Life of the Gay Gene: From Hypothetical Genetic Marker to Social Reality
The gay gene was first identified in 1993 as a correlation between the genetic marker Xq28 and gay male sexuality. The results of this original study were never replicated, and the biological reality of such an entity remains hypothetical. However, despite such tenuous provenance, the gay gene has persisted as a reference in science news, popular science writings, and in press releases and editorials about biomedical research. An examination of t…
Biodigital Publics: Personal Genomes as Digital Media Artefacts
The recent proliferation of personal genomics and direct-to-consumer (DTC) genomics has attracted much attention and publicity. Concern around these developments has mainly focused on issues of biomedical regulation and hinged on questions of how people understand genomic information as biomedical and what meaning they make of it. However, this publicity amplifies genome sequences which are also made as internet \ntexts and, as such, they generat…
Genetics and the Media
The first bite: Imaginaries, promotional publics and the laboratory grown burger
In this article, we analyse a 2013 press conference hosting the world’s first tasting of a laboratory grown hamburger. We explore this as a media event: an exceptional performative moment in which common meanings are mobilised and a connection to a shared centre of reality is offered. We develop our own theoretical contribution – the promotional public – to characterise the affirmative and partial patchwork of carefully selected actors invoked du…
Public knowledge-making and the media: Genes, genetics, cloning and Mass Observation
Media analysis of public engagement with genetics and cloning is dominated by media genre-specific or issue-specific analysis. Such analyses tend to frame genetics as a new technology, and media resources as current and immediate. Broader public discourses tend towards marginalising public knowledge as against expert voices. This article takes a broader perspective to demonstrate that people engage with multiple media genres over an extensive tim…
Training to self-care: Fitness Tracking, Biopedagogy and the Healthy Consumer
In this article, we provide an account ofFitbit, a wearable sensor device, using two complementary analytical approaches: auto-ethnography and media analysis. Drawing on the concept of biopedagogy, which describes the processes of learning and training bodies how to live, we focus on how users learn to self-care with wearable technologies through a series of micropractices that involve processes of mediation and the sharing of their own data via …
Life and the Technological: Cyborgs, Companions, and the Chthulucene
Donna Haraway’s cyborg is a widely traveled figure with an important relation to life writing. This article traces the cyborg through modes of life writing and routes through feminist science fiction and science studies. It examines attachments and anger, looking at the return of the alienated cyborg in recent accounts of Haraway’s work.One of Donna Haraway’s most charismatic and widely travelled figures is that of the cyborg. It emerges as a fig…
The Cambridge Companion to Queer Studies
This chapter examines queer digital culture, a term that refers to the ways in which LGBTQ+ identities, practices, and theories have been mixed up in the emergence, design, and constitution of digital technology. It highlights significant shifts at the intersections of queer identity and politics and digital communication technologies from the 1980s to the early twenty-first century, including transitions from textual to audiovisual media; from s…
What’s in a name: The politics of queer on campus
This paper draws upon oral history interviews and archival work carried out to examine the history of the LGBTQ+ student society at the University of Sussex. It reflects upon the significance of the Society’s name change over time (from GaySoc in the 1970s to its contemporary formation as the LGBTQ+ Society) and considers the role of the Society and its members as an active political and sociable group, concerned with a broad range of political a…
Liveability, environment and policy: Reflections on trans student experience of entering UK higher education
This article examines the intersection of lived experience and equality policy in UK Higher Education (HE), focusing on trans students’ experiences of planning for and applying to University. The research is based on participatory research with an lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer / questioning (LGBTQ+) youth project in Brighton, UK. We frame the relationship between trans identities and equalities in education in terms of liveability. T…
Queering genealogies: Introduction to the Special Section
This special section of Feminist Theory explores the theme of ‘Queering Genealogies’. It brings together work which explores intersections of queering, queerness, biotechnology,kinship relations, genealogy and inter generational relations. It unites two areas of study:queer kinship studies; and queer science studies. The section was edited by Dr Elizabeth Reed and Dr Kate O’Riordan, and our focus is on queer family making, kinship relations,genea…
Cultural, creative and collective recovery: Exploring a creative Worker income Guarantee (CWIG)
Income guarantee schemes and interventions have been considered both as basic income and sector specific interventions. This article focuses on the ideas of a sector specific intervention and evaluates existing schemes to inform a possible pilot. Cognisant of the critiques of UBI and sector intervention schemes, and the post-covid context, this research examines the question of whether it would be possible and/or desirable to develop a location-s…
Visual cultures of CRISPR: Intermedial Figuration in Science Communication
This article traces the visual culture of human genetic engineering over the past decade, focusing on the CRISPR genome editing technology. We argue that the representations surrounding CRISPR exemplify, and to an extent define, this visual culture. We examine the history of CRISPR, particularly its human applications from 2012 to 2022, through a periodization that includes the CRISPR craze, gene therapy initiatives, the He Jiankui controversy an…
Mammoths and tigers and rhinos, oh my: Mapping De-Extinction Species and Networks
Sociology (14 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Biology (5 works) · Genetics (5 works) · Public relations (5 works)