Catharina Landström
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 232448 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Catharina Landström |
| PRENOMES | Catharina |
| SOBRENOME | Landström |
| ASSINATURA | LANDSTRÖM C |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7782-1438 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 28 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 255 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1995 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
The Wetland Explorer
Participatory modelling is a way to include local people’s knowledge in environmental computer modelling. It has primarily been analysed as a process enhancing scientific understanding and public understanding of science, rarely for generating decision-supporting knowledge in environmental management. This article presents a co-design project creating a digital interface that makes it possible for local communities to deploy the outputs of partic…
Studying long-term storage as material visions of the future
Long-term storage is a phenomenon that has not been theoretically defined and systematically studied. We argue that long-term storage can be construed as an object of investigation that covers a range of instantiations which can be empirically examined. Study of long-term storage with perspectives based in science and technology studies (STS) can provide new knowledge about visions of the future prevalent in contemporary Western societies. To out…
The Sole Engineering Genius
Despite decades of directed efforts gender equality is still a challenge in many university level STEM institutions. Key reasons for this are found in disciplinary and institutional cultures. A crucial cultural element is professional identity. In this article, an ethnographic study of a gender equality program in a technical university in Sweden underpins the identification of a professional identity that we name: the 'sole engineering genius'. …
Stakeholder engagement does not guarantee impact
Stakeholder engagement has become a watchword for environmental scientists to assert the societal relevance of their projects to funding agencies. In water research based on computer simulation modelling, stakeholder engagement has attracted interest as a means to overcome low uptake of new tools for water management. An increasingly accepted view is that more and better stakeholder involvement in research projects will lead to increased adoption…
Más allá de las expectativas de rol
Este artículo busca contribuir a las discusiones cada vez más frecuentes sobre las transformaciones intelectuales, personales y emocionales que experimentan con cada nuevo proyecto de investigación y colaboración quienes realizan trabajo de campo etnográfico en el marco de los Estudios Sociales de la Ciencia y la Tecnología (ESCyT). A partir de la experiencia de investigar 'insertas' (embedded) en grandes proyectos colaborativos de las ciencias d…
The public and its assets
London's water sector professionals seek to secure public funds for blue and green infrastructure projects while also engaging with local advocates for river improvement. This paper argues that current project appraisal practice forms a barrier to aligning public investment with local demand because justifying investment requires the enactment of a utilitarian public good that is at odds with the non-instrumental values motivating local advocacy.…
The Power of Place
Investigating the role of geographical location in public engagement with science we examine the West Cumbria Managing Radioactive Waste Safely (MRWS) Partnership’s undertaking of one of the most extensive local public engagements with environmental risk science in the UK. The case study highlights the transformative impacts of this three-year long local engagement on both science and the public. Differently from other invited public engagements,…
Biopolitics, discipline, and hydro‐citizenship
In this paper we argue that English drought management rests on two imaginaries of hydrocitizenship: an economic/instrumental imaginary that frames people primarily as “customers,” and an imaginary that focuses more on the affectively charged, personal engagements between individuals and “hydrosocial” spaces. These imaginaries, we contend, roughly correspond with the two modalities of a form of governance referred to by Michel Foucault as biopowe…
Community modelling
The (Mis)understanding of Scientific Uncertainty? How Experts View Policy-Makers, the Media and Publics
Frequent claims that publics ‘misunderstand’ science ignore the contested definition of scientific uncertainty itself. Scientific uncertainty means different things in the natural sciences, social sciences and the humanities, while public controversies show that interpretations of scientific uncertainty have different implications for policy and decision-making. This prompts analysis of the ways that experts view scientific uncertainty and how th…
Virtually Expert
Argument This paper challenges three assumptions common in the literature on expertise: that expertise is linearly derived from scientific knowledge; that experts always align with the established institutional order; and that expertise is a property acquired by individuals. We criticize these ideas by juxtaposing three distinct expert practices involved with flood risk management in England. Virtual engineering is associated with commercial cons…
Long-term repository governance
As geological disposal (GD) of higher activity radioactive wastes seems to be moving towards implementation in some countries (most prominently perhaps in Finland and Sweden), this paper reflects on a number of governance questions this raises. We highlight the near long-term governance of such repositories (that is to say the process beginning with construction and finishing when closure is fully completed). This time period comes into view when…
Explaining Rapid Transitions in the Practice of Flood Risk Management
This article draws on empirical material to reflect on what drives rapid change in flood risk management practice, reflecting wider interest in the way that scientific practices make risk landscapes and a specific focus on extreme events as drivers of rapid change. Such events are commonly referred to as a form of creative destruction, ones that reveal both the composition of socioenvironmental assemblages and provide a creative opportunity to re…
Learning through Computer Model Improvisations
It has been convincingly argued that computer simulation modeling differs from traditional science. If we understand simulation modeling as a new way of doing science, the manner in which scientists learn about the world through models must also be considered differently. This article examines how researchers learn about environmental processes through computer simulation modeling. Suggesting a conceptual framework anchored in a performative phil…
Virtual Engineering
This paper discusses computer simulation modelling in the context of environmental risk management. Approaching computer simulation as practice, performed in networks of heterogeneous elements, we examine the modelling undertaken by engineering consultants commissioned to provide knowledge about local flood risk to the Environment Agency of England and Wales (EA), the public body responsible for flood risk management. We propose that this simulat…
Coproducing Flood Risk Knowledge
This paper suggests that computer simulation modelling can offer opportunities for redistributing expertise between science and affected publics in relation to environmental problems. However, in order for scientific modelling to contribute to the coproduction of new knowledge claims about environmental processes, scientists need to reposition themselves with respect to their modelling practices. In the paper we examine a process in which two hyd…
Flood apprentices
Taking our lead from Stengers' experimental constructivism, this paper reports on the invention of a research apparatus – the 'competency group' (CG) – that aims to put things capable of forcing thought and attachment to work in the exercise of new knowledge polities. It draws on the work of one such group based in Pickering, a town in the catchment of Ryedale with long experience of flooding. This group involved social and natural scientists wor…
Doing flood risk science differently
In this paper, we describe an experiment in which the position of scientists with respect to flood risk management is fundamentally changed. Building on a review of three very different approaches to engaging the public in science, we contrast the normal way in which science is used in flood risk management in England and Wales with an experiment in which knowledge regarding flooding was co‐produced. This illustrates a way of working with experts…
En queer blick på teknik i TV-serier
This article elaborates on the co-production of gender, technology and sexuality. Approaches from feminist technology studies, a re-formulated notion of the heterosexual matrix and queer critiques of homophobia and heteronormativity are combined into an interpretative framework. This framework is used in an analysis of the work cars, computers and mobile phones do in relation to gender and sexuality in four English-language TV series with interna…
Queering feminist technology studies
This article argues that the influence of heteronormativity on the conceptualization of women and technology in feminist constructivist technology studies creates serious problems for the analysis. This research aims to understand the coproduction of gender and technology in society, but does not approach the two elements in a symmetrical fashion. Hence, ethnographic studies can only exemplify how the gender of technology producers is reflected i…
A Gendered Economy of Pleasure
This paper analyses cultural signification in the co-production of gender and technology. Focusing on the popular genre of motoring magazines, it discerns a pattern organising men and women in opposite relations to cars. Men’s relationships with cars are premised on passion and pleasure while women are figured as rational and unable to attach emotionally to cars. This “gendered economy of pleasure” is traced in a close reading of motoring magazin…
A more authentic Australia’
'Doing' Numbers and Managing Difference
Justifiable Bunnycide
Justifiable Bunnycide
(2001). Justifiable Bunnycide: Narrating the Recent Success of Australian Biological Control of Rabbits. Science as Culture: Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 141-161
Doing flood risk science differently
In this paper, we describe an experiment in which the position of scientists with respect to flood risk management is fundamentally changed. Building on a review of three very different approaches to engaging the public in science, we contrast the normal way in which science is used in flood risk management in England and Wales with an experiment in which knowledge regarding flooding was co‐produced. This illustrates a way of working with experts…
Flood apprentices
Taking our lead from Stengers' experimental constructivism, this paper reports on the invention of a research apparatus – the 'competency group' (CG) – that aims to put things capable of forcing thought and attachment to work in the exercise of new knowledge polities. It draws on the work of one such group based in Pickering, a town in the catchment of Ryedale with long experience of flooding. This group involved social and natural scientists wor…
Coproducing Flood Risk Knowledge
This paper suggests that computer simulation modelling can offer opportunities for redistributing expertise between science and affected publics in relation to environmental problems. However, in order for scientific modelling to contribute to the coproduction of new knowledge claims about environmental processes, scientists need to reposition themselves with respect to their modelling practices. In the paper we examine a process in which two hyd…
The (Mis)understanding of Scientific Uncertainty? How Experts View Policy-Makers, the Media and Publics
Frequent claims that publics ‘misunderstand’ science ignore the contested definition of scientific uncertainty itself. Scientific uncertainty means different things in the natural sciences, social sciences and the humanities, while public controversies show that interpretations of scientific uncertainty have different implications for policy and decision-making. This prompts analysis of the ways that experts view scientific uncertainty and how th…
Queering feminist technology studies
This article argues that the influence of heteronormativity on the conceptualization of women and technology in feminist constructivist technology studies creates serious problems for the analysis. This research aims to understand the coproduction of gender and technology in society, but does not approach the two elements in a symmetrical fashion. Hence, ethnographic studies can only exemplify how the gender of technology producers is reflected i…
Long-term repository governance
As geological disposal (GD) of higher activity radioactive wastes seems to be moving towards implementation in some countries (most prominently perhaps in Finland and Sweden), this paper reflects on a number of governance questions this raises. We highlight the near long-term governance of such repositories (that is to say the process beginning with construction and finishing when closure is fully completed). This time period comes into view when…
Learning through Computer Model Improvisations
It has been convincingly argued that computer simulation modeling differs from traditional science. If we understand simulation modeling as a new way of doing science, the manner in which scientists learn about the world through models must also be considered differently. This article examines how researchers learn about environmental processes through computer simulation modeling. Suggesting a conceptual framework anchored in a performative phil…
Biopolitics, discipline, and hydro‐citizenship
In this paper we argue that English drought management rests on two imaginaries of hydrocitizenship: an economic/instrumental imaginary that frames people primarily as “customers,” and an imaginary that focuses more on the affectively charged, personal engagements between individuals and “hydrosocial” spaces. These imaginaries, we contend, roughly correspond with the two modalities of a form of governance referred to by Michel Foucault as biopowe…
Explaining Rapid Transitions in the Practice of Flood Risk Management
This article draws on empirical material to reflect on what drives rapid change in flood risk management practice, reflecting wider interest in the way that scientific practices make risk landscapes and a specific focus on extreme events as drivers of rapid change. Such events are commonly referred to as a form of creative destruction, ones that reveal both the composition of socioenvironmental assemblages and provide a creative opportunity to re…
The Australian Rabbit Calicivirus Disease Program
The paper discusses the Australian Rabbit Calicivirus Disease (RCD) Program, an attempt at the biological control of wild rabbits, as an example of how technoscience in 'Mode-2 society' works. My aim is to illuminate the variety of, and the connections between, the diverse activities that the technoscientific actors engage in. The RCD Program brought a new entity into Australia; it was pursued by a network of actors across institutional boundarie…
The Ontological Politics of Staying True to Complexity
Catherine Waldby is Deputy-Director and Senior Research Fellow at the National Centre in HIV Social Research at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. She is the author of The Visible Human Project: Informatic Bodies and Posthuman Medicine (Routledge, 2000), AIDS and the Body Politic: Biomedicine and Sexual Difference (Routledge, 1996), and many articles and essays on medicine, the body and culture. She is the editor of the BioFutures, BioCul…
The Sole Engineering Genius
Despite decades of directed efforts gender equality is still a challenge in many university level STEM institutions. Key reasons for this are found in disciplinary and institutional cultures. A crucial cultural element is professional identity. In this article, an ethnographic study of a gender equality program in a technical university in Sweden underpins the identification of a professional identity that we name: the 'sole engineering genius'. …
A more authentic Australia’
Justifiable Bunnycide
(2001). Justifiable Bunnycide: Narrating the Recent Success of Australian Biological Control of Rabbits. Science as Culture: Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 141-161
No big deal ‐feminism and genetics in Sweden
With the feminist critique of science as the point of departure, the Swedish criticism of the development in genetic science and technology is discussed. In a comparison with the corresponding debate in Germany, the Swedish discussion is categorized as issue‐oriented rather than ideology‐driven. In the concluding discussion some suggestions are put forward regarding which factors in the cultural context could be viewed as important for the kind o…
The Ontological Politics of Staying True to Complexity
Catherine Waldby is Deputy-Director and Senior Research Fellow at the National Centre in HIV Social Research at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. She is the author of The Visible Human Project: Informatic Bodies and Posthuman Medicine (Routledge, 2000), AIDS and the Body Politic: Biomedicine and Sexual Difference (Routledge, 1996), and many articles and essays on medicine, the body and culture. She is the editor of the BioFutures, BioCul…
Justifiable Bunnycide
Justifiable Bunnycide
(2001). Justifiable Bunnycide: Narrating the Recent Success of Australian Biological Control of Rabbits. Science as Culture: Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 141-161
The Australian Rabbit Calicivirus Disease Program
The paper discusses the Australian Rabbit Calicivirus Disease (RCD) Program, an attempt at the biological control of wild rabbits, as an example of how technoscience in 'Mode-2 society' works. My aim is to illuminate the variety of, and the connections between, the diverse activities that the technoscientific actors engage in. The RCD Program brought a new entity into Australia; it was pursued by a network of actors across institutional boundarie…
'Doing' Numbers and Managing Difference
A more authentic Australia’
A Gendered Economy of Pleasure
This paper analyses cultural signification in the co-production of gender and technology. Focusing on the popular genre of motoring magazines, it discerns a pattern organising men and women in opposite relations to cars. Men’s relationships with cars are premised on passion and pleasure while women are figured as rational and unable to attach emotionally to cars. This “gendered economy of pleasure” is traced in a close reading of motoring magazin…
Queering feminist technology studies
This article argues that the influence of heteronormativity on the conceptualization of women and technology in feminist constructivist technology studies creates serious problems for the analysis. This research aims to understand the coproduction of gender and technology in society, but does not approach the two elements in a symmetrical fashion. Hence, ethnographic studies can only exemplify how the gender of technology producers is reflected i…
En queer blick på teknik i TV-serier
This article elaborates on the co-production of gender, technology and sexuality. Approaches from feminist technology studies, a re-formulated notion of the heterosexual matrix and queer critiques of homophobia and heteronormativity are combined into an interpretative framework. This framework is used in an analysis of the work cars, computers and mobile phones do in relation to gender and sexuality in four English-language TV series with interna…
Doing flood risk science differently
In this paper, we describe an experiment in which the position of scientists with respect to flood risk management is fundamentally changed. Building on a review of three very different approaches to engaging the public in science, we contrast the normal way in which science is used in flood risk management in England and Wales with an experiment in which knowledge regarding flooding was co‐produced. This illustrates a way of working with experts…
Virtual Engineering
This paper discusses computer simulation modelling in the context of environmental risk management. Approaching computer simulation as practice, performed in networks of heterogeneous elements, we examine the modelling undertaken by engineering consultants commissioned to provide knowledge about local flood risk to the Environment Agency of England and Wales (EA), the public body responsible for flood risk management. We propose that this simulat…
Coproducing Flood Risk Knowledge
This paper suggests that computer simulation modelling can offer opportunities for redistributing expertise between science and affected publics in relation to environmental problems. However, in order for scientific modelling to contribute to the coproduction of new knowledge claims about environmental processes, scientists need to reposition themselves with respect to their modelling practices. In the paper we examine a process in which two hyd…
Flood apprentices
Taking our lead from Stengers' experimental constructivism, this paper reports on the invention of a research apparatus – the 'competency group' (CG) – that aims to put things capable of forcing thought and attachment to work in the exercise of new knowledge polities. It draws on the work of one such group based in Pickering, a town in the catchment of Ryedale with long experience of flooding. This group involved social and natural scientists wor…
Explaining Rapid Transitions in the Practice of Flood Risk Management
This article draws on empirical material to reflect on what drives rapid change in flood risk management practice, reflecting wider interest in the way that scientific practices make risk landscapes and a specific focus on extreme events as drivers of rapid change. Such events are commonly referred to as a form of creative destruction, ones that reveal both the composition of socioenvironmental assemblages and provide a creative opportunity to re…
Learning through Computer Model Improvisations
It has been convincingly argued that computer simulation modeling differs from traditional science. If we understand simulation modeling as a new way of doing science, the manner in which scientists learn about the world through models must also be considered differently. This article examines how researchers learn about environmental processes through computer simulation modeling. Suggesting a conceptual framework anchored in a performative phil…
Virtually Expert
Argument This paper challenges three assumptions common in the literature on expertise: that expertise is linearly derived from scientific knowledge; that experts always align with the established institutional order; and that expertise is a property acquired by individuals. We criticize these ideas by juxtaposing three distinct expert practices involved with flood risk management in England. Virtual engineering is associated with commercial cons…
Long-term repository governance
As geological disposal (GD) of higher activity radioactive wastes seems to be moving towards implementation in some countries (most prominently perhaps in Finland and Sweden), this paper reflects on a number of governance questions this raises. We highlight the near long-term governance of such repositories (that is to say the process beginning with construction and finishing when closure is fully completed). This time period comes into view when…
The (Mis)understanding of Scientific Uncertainty? How Experts View Policy-Makers, the Media and Publics
Frequent claims that publics ‘misunderstand’ science ignore the contested definition of scientific uncertainty itself. Scientific uncertainty means different things in the natural sciences, social sciences and the humanities, while public controversies show that interpretations of scientific uncertainty have different implications for policy and decision-making. This prompts analysis of the ways that experts view scientific uncertainty and how th…
Community modelling
Biopolitics, discipline, and hydro‐citizenship
In this paper we argue that English drought management rests on two imaginaries of hydrocitizenship: an economic/instrumental imaginary that frames people primarily as “customers,” and an imaginary that focuses more on the affectively charged, personal engagements between individuals and “hydrosocial” spaces. These imaginaries, we contend, roughly correspond with the two modalities of a form of governance referred to by Michel Foucault as biopowe…
The Power of Place
Investigating the role of geographical location in public engagement with science we examine the West Cumbria Managing Radioactive Waste Safely (MRWS) Partnership’s undertaking of one of the most extensive local public engagements with environmental risk science in the UK. The case study highlights the transformative impacts of this three-year long local engagement on both science and the public. Differently from other invited public engagements,…
Más allá de las expectativas de rol
Este artículo busca contribuir a las discusiones cada vez más frecuentes sobre las transformaciones intelectuales, personales y emocionales que experimentan con cada nuevo proyecto de investigación y colaboración quienes realizan trabajo de campo etnográfico en el marco de los Estudios Sociales de la Ciencia y la Tecnología (ESCyT). A partir de la experiencia de investigar 'insertas' (embedded) en grandes proyectos colaborativos de las ciencias d…
The public and its assets
London's water sector professionals seek to secure public funds for blue and green infrastructure projects while also engaging with local advocates for river improvement. This paper argues that current project appraisal practice forms a barrier to aligning public investment with local demand because justifying investment requires the enactment of a utilitarian public good that is at odds with the non-instrumental values motivating local advocacy.…
The Sole Engineering Genius
Despite decades of directed efforts gender equality is still a challenge in many university level STEM institutions. Key reasons for this are found in disciplinary and institutional cultures. A crucial cultural element is professional identity. In this article, an ethnographic study of a gender equality program in a technical university in Sweden underpins the identification of a professional identity that we name: the 'sole engineering genius'. …
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