Ivana Suboticki
Biographic Data
| ID | 937686 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ivana Suboticki |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ivana |
| FAMILY NAME | Suboticki |
| SIGNATURE | SUBOTICKI I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Norwegian University of Science and Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8808-0353 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Making Women Full Professors. How Promotion Programmes May Supersede the ‘Fixing the women’ and ‘Fixing the system’ Binary
The Sociotechnical Life of a Shapeshifting Technology: The Bike Lift Trampe in Trondheim
This article explores the idea that technologies may be considered shapeshifting as they move between and are domesticated in different social worlds. We employ a material-semiotic approach with a domestication and social worlds framework to study the case of Trampe, a bicycle lift built in Trondheim, Norway, in 1993. The study is based on interviews, observation, documents, and news media analysis. We show how the lift shifted shape: although or…
Performing excellence and gender balance in higher education
Universities are expected to strive for excellence but also for gender balance. Narrow interpretations of excellence in universities hinder women’s advancement in academia. In this paper, we ask if there are ways that these policies may be reconciled. Excellence is an “empty signifier” that must be filled with meaning. We have investigated how Heads of Departments enact “excellence” and gender balance in hiring processes in four Norwegian univers…
With microbes: Edited by Charlotte Brives, Matthäus Rest & Salla Sariola, 2021
With Microbes offers an analysis of the multiple, complex and dynamic relationships between humans and microbes and their entanglement in everyday life. Microbes have gained much attention from scientists, in popular culture, and by various actors looking to economize and regulate microbes, discussing questions such as the relationship between gut microbes and brain activity, the best ways to nurture kombuchas and sourdough starters, or use and u…
Planners as middle actors in facilitating for city cycling
The paper explores the knowledge-making and efforts of planners in facilitating cycling in two Norwegian cities with high ambitions for developing more sustainable mobility modes through cycling. Building on empirical data from shadowing local planning agencies in the two cities, semi-structured interviews, and document analysis, we argue that studying planners and their mediation work is crucial to understand how to transition to more sustainabl…
Fostering justice through engagement: A literature review of public engagement in energy transitions
Social science and humanities scholars have highlighted that energy transitions have unequal and unjust consequences on societies. This has strengthened the importance of energy justice in both policy and research on energy transitions. Public engagement in energy transition is an important cornerstone to mitigate such outcomes; however, it does not univocally equal nor lead to energy justice. Public engagement can also be used to maintain the st…
Conditions for just offshore wind energy: Addressing the societal challenges of the North Sea wind industry
Global investment in offshore wind energy is anticipated to surge in the coming decades. While improved technology, reduced costs, and generous policy support are frequently acknowledged as driving factors, many assert that there are fewer societal challenges with offshore renewable installations than with onshore ones. Drawing from a co-creation process with key Norwegian stakeholders and an interdisciplinary team of social science and humanitie…
Non-human policy worlds: An exploration of the Norwegian research and higher education policy
Academia is increasingly populated but remains saturated with problems of exclusion, inequality, and injustice.However, policies aimed to govern the sector are criticized for corrupting the core of the academic practice, overlooking complexities, and perpetuating old and constructing new forms of inequalities.We thus need more empowering ways to design policies which can productively transform academia into good spaces to inhabit.To this end, we …
Uncertain, collective and heroic leadership approaches to gender balance change among local leaders in academia
Heads of department (HoDs) are commonly made responsible for implementing gender balance change in academia. Research has found that they are often reluctant to take ownership of this problem. Our study found that department heads in Norway did take on a lot of ownership for gender balance change and we divided their leadership approaches with regard to gender balance into uncertain, collegial and heroic. However, such approaches did not distingu…
Department heads enacting gender balance policies: Navigating voices of ambiguity and concern
Local leaders in academia have been perceived as resisting the role as change agents for gender balance. Employing a concept of voices inspired by Bakhtin, we found that department heads has to negotiate ambiguous and blurred voices from the leadership as well as critical and concerned voices from employees which lead them to thread carefully when enacting gender balance policies. Thus, there is considerable space for leadership to facilitate dep…
Designing and domesticating an interstructure: Exploring the practices and the politics of an elevator for cyclists
Technologies called infrastructures are often considered to be inherently and opaquely political, but how they exert their politics has been both empirically and conceptually debated. Infrastructure studies have largely focused on (in)visibility or ‘infra’ qualities as central criteria for assessing who and what is included and excluded, and when. In this paper we argue that this binary is unproductive and propose the concept of interstructure to…
Liminal technologies: Exploring the temporalities and struggles in efforts to develop a Belgrade metro
The sociology of technology needs more nuanced conceptualizations of the temporal aspects of sociotechnical change. In this article, we propose liminality as a useful analytical entry-point to study technologies that seemingly remain in a 'no man's land' - what we call liminal technologies. Drawing on anthropological accounts and technology studies literature, we propose a framework to be used as a sensitizing device that includes four ways of un…
Communities of peer practitioners. Experiences from an Academic Writing Group
Learning academic writing is important for communicating research and participating in scholarly debates. This learning is traditionally conceptualized through a hierarchical teacher-student relation or individual accomplishment. However, in this paper we ask how we might understand the development of academic writing skills as a collective practice within a writing community. We draw on experiences from our own departmental writing group of PhD …
About the Cover Artist
Rebecca Hutchinson
About the cover artist
Michael Pinsky is a British artist who is working on numerous internationalprojects by using innovative methods to tackle some ofthe most challenging subjects that shape and influence the publicrealm
Ureta. Assembling Policy. Transantiago, Human Device, and the Dream of a World-Class Society
About the Cover Artist
HC Gilje is a Norwegian artist with formal training from the Academy of Fine Arts in Trondheim
Uncertain, collective and heroic leadership approaches to gender balance change among local leaders in academia
Heads of department (HoDs) are commonly made responsible for implementing gender balance change in academia. Research has found that they are often reluctant to take ownership of this problem. Our study found that department heads in Norway did take on a lot of ownership for gender balance change and we divided their leadership approaches with regard to gender balance into uncertain, collegial and heroic. However, such approaches did not distingu…
Planners as middle actors in facilitating for city cycling
The paper explores the knowledge-making and efforts of planners in facilitating cycling in two Norwegian cities with high ambitions for developing more sustainable mobility modes through cycling. Building on empirical data from shadowing local planning agencies in the two cities, semi-structured interviews, and document analysis, we argue that studying planners and their mediation work is crucial to understand how to transition to more sustainabl…
Department heads enacting gender balance policies: Navigating voices of ambiguity and concern
Local leaders in academia have been perceived as resisting the role as change agents for gender balance. Employing a concept of voices inspired by Bakhtin, we found that department heads has to negotiate ambiguous and blurred voices from the leadership as well as critical and concerned voices from employees which lead them to thread carefully when enacting gender balance policies. Thus, there is considerable space for leadership to facilitate dep…
Designing and domesticating an interstructure: Exploring the practices and the politics of an elevator for cyclists
Technologies called infrastructures are often considered to be inherently and opaquely political, but how they exert their politics has been both empirically and conceptually debated. Infrastructure studies have largely focused on (in)visibility or ‘infra’ qualities as central criteria for assessing who and what is included and excluded, and when. In this paper we argue that this binary is unproductive and propose the concept of interstructure to…
Liminal technologies: Exploring the temporalities and struggles in efforts to develop a Belgrade metro
The sociology of technology needs more nuanced conceptualizations of the temporal aspects of sociotechnical change. In this article, we propose liminality as a useful analytical entry-point to study technologies that seemingly remain in a 'no man's land' - what we call liminal technologies. Drawing on anthropological accounts and technology studies literature, we propose a framework to be used as a sensitizing device that includes four ways of un…
Conditions for just offshore wind energy: Addressing the societal challenges of the North Sea wind industry
Global investment in offshore wind energy is anticipated to surge in the coming decades. While improved technology, reduced costs, and generous policy support are frequently acknowledged as driving factors, many assert that there are fewer societal challenges with offshore renewable installations than with onshore ones. Drawing from a co-creation process with key Norwegian stakeholders and an interdisciplinary team of social science and humanitie…
Making Women Full Professors. How Promotion Programmes May Supersede the ‘Fixing the women’ and ‘Fixing the system’ Binary
Non-human policy worlds: An exploration of the Norwegian research and higher education policy
Academia is increasingly populated but remains saturated with problems of exclusion, inequality, and injustice.However, policies aimed to govern the sector are criticized for corrupting the core of the academic practice, overlooking complexities, and perpetuating old and constructing new forms of inequalities.We thus need more empowering ways to design policies which can productively transform academia into good spaces to inhabit.To this end, we …
Ureta. Assembling Policy. Transantiago, Human Device, and the Dream of a World-Class Society
About the Cover Artist
HC Gilje is a Norwegian artist with formal training from the Academy of Fine Arts in Trondheim
Communities of peer practitioners. Experiences from an Academic Writing Group
Learning academic writing is important for communicating research and participating in scholarly debates. This learning is traditionally conceptualized through a hierarchical teacher-student relation or individual accomplishment. However, in this paper we ask how we might understand the development of academic writing skills as a collective practice within a writing community. We draw on experiences from our own departmental writing group of PhD …
About the Cover Artist
Rebecca Hutchinson
About the cover artist
Michael Pinsky is a British artist who is working on numerous internationalprojects by using innovative methods to tackle some ofthe most challenging subjects that shape and influence the publicrealm
Department heads enacting gender balance policies: Navigating voices of ambiguity and concern
Local leaders in academia have been perceived as resisting the role as change agents for gender balance. Employing a concept of voices inspired by Bakhtin, we found that department heads has to negotiate ambiguous and blurred voices from the leadership as well as critical and concerned voices from employees which lead them to thread carefully when enacting gender balance policies. Thus, there is considerable space for leadership to facilitate dep…
Designing and domesticating an interstructure: Exploring the practices and the politics of an elevator for cyclists
Technologies called infrastructures are often considered to be inherently and opaquely political, but how they exert their politics has been both empirically and conceptually debated. Infrastructure studies have largely focused on (in)visibility or ‘infra’ qualities as central criteria for assessing who and what is included and excluded, and when. In this paper we argue that this binary is unproductive and propose the concept of interstructure to…
Liminal technologies: Exploring the temporalities and struggles in efforts to develop a Belgrade metro
The sociology of technology needs more nuanced conceptualizations of the temporal aspects of sociotechnical change. In this article, we propose liminality as a useful analytical entry-point to study technologies that seemingly remain in a 'no man's land' - what we call liminal technologies. Drawing on anthropological accounts and technology studies literature, we propose a framework to be used as a sensitizing device that includes four ways of un…
Uncertain, collective and heroic leadership approaches to gender balance change among local leaders in academia
Heads of department (HoDs) are commonly made responsible for implementing gender balance change in academia. Research has found that they are often reluctant to take ownership of this problem. Our study found that department heads in Norway did take on a lot of ownership for gender balance change and we divided their leadership approaches with regard to gender balance into uncertain, collegial and heroic. However, such approaches did not distingu…
Fostering justice through engagement: A literature review of public engagement in energy transitions
Social science and humanities scholars have highlighted that energy transitions have unequal and unjust consequences on societies. This has strengthened the importance of energy justice in both policy and research on energy transitions. Public engagement in energy transition is an important cornerstone to mitigate such outcomes; however, it does not univocally equal nor lead to energy justice. Public engagement can also be used to maintain the st…
Conditions for just offshore wind energy: Addressing the societal challenges of the North Sea wind industry
Global investment in offshore wind energy is anticipated to surge in the coming decades. While improved technology, reduced costs, and generous policy support are frequently acknowledged as driving factors, many assert that there are fewer societal challenges with offshore renewable installations than with onshore ones. Drawing from a co-creation process with key Norwegian stakeholders and an interdisciplinary team of social science and humanitie…
Non-human policy worlds: An exploration of the Norwegian research and higher education policy
Academia is increasingly populated but remains saturated with problems of exclusion, inequality, and injustice.However, policies aimed to govern the sector are criticized for corrupting the core of the academic practice, overlooking complexities, and perpetuating old and constructing new forms of inequalities.We thus need more empowering ways to design policies which can productively transform academia into good spaces to inhabit.To this end, we …
Performing excellence and gender balance in higher education
Universities are expected to strive for excellence but also for gender balance. Narrow interpretations of excellence in universities hinder women’s advancement in academia. In this paper, we ask if there are ways that these policies may be reconciled. Excellence is an “empty signifier” that must be filled with meaning. We have investigated how Heads of Departments enact “excellence” and gender balance in hiring processes in four Norwegian univers…
With microbes: Edited by Charlotte Brives, Matthäus Rest & Salla Sariola, 2021
With Microbes offers an analysis of the multiple, complex and dynamic relationships between humans and microbes and their entanglement in everyday life. Microbes have gained much attention from scientists, in popular culture, and by various actors looking to economize and regulate microbes, discussing questions such as the relationship between gut microbes and brain activity, the best ways to nurture kombuchas and sourdough starters, or use and u…
Planners as middle actors in facilitating for city cycling
The paper explores the knowledge-making and efforts of planners in facilitating cycling in two Norwegian cities with high ambitions for developing more sustainable mobility modes through cycling. Building on empirical data from shadowing local planning agencies in the two cities, semi-structured interviews, and document analysis, we argue that studying planners and their mediation work is crucial to understand how to transition to more sustainabl…
Making Women Full Professors. How Promotion Programmes May Supersede the ‘Fixing the women’ and ‘Fixing the system’ Binary
The Sociotechnical Life of a Shapeshifting Technology: The Bike Lift Trampe in Trondheim
This article explores the idea that technologies may be considered shapeshifting as they move between and are domesticated in different social worlds. We employ a material-semiotic approach with a domestication and social worlds framework to study the case of Trampe, a bicycle lift built in Trondheim, Norway, in 1993. The study is based on interviews, observation, documents, and news media analysis. We show how the lift shifted shape: although or…
Sociology (13 works) · Political science (10 works) · Engineering (8 works) · Public relations (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Politics (5 works) · Social science (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Gender Diversity and Inequality (4 works)