Jacob Bull & Margaretha Fahlgren 
Illdisciplined Gender [PDF ebook] 
Engaging Questions of Nature/Culture and Transgressive Encounters

This volume offers some of the outputs, challenges and opportunities created in an interdisciplinary programme that was set up to engage multi-, inter- and transdisciplinary perspectives on issues at the intersections of nature and culture, sex and gender. When working with mass spectrometers, microscopes, discourse analysis or interviews, one rarely has to explain them to colleagues. They are the tools used. But when working in inter- or transdisciplinary settings, such tools require explanations. These conversations make evident that trans and interdisciplinary (gender) research is a not just a novelty requiring an adjectival prefix ‘trans-‘ or ‘inter-’, it is something done, performed, practiced. Moreover it is something done in particular spaces, a consequence of particular meetings – transgressive encounters. This collection is built on work conducted under the Gen Na: Nature/Culture and Transgressive Encounters Research Programme, funded by the Swedish research council. It brings together a range of scholars from the humanities, natural, physical, life, and social sciences by so doing it reflects on the challenges, risks and opportunities of doing trans- and interdisciplinary work. The result is a collection that uses a multitude of tools to examine issues such as sexual difference, hydro power exploitation, research seminars, dairy farming, the spaces between molecules, film and identity. They are witness to the diversity created through transgressive encounters and illustrations of doing inter- and transdisciplinary research.

Table des matières

1 Illdisciplined Gender: Nature/Culture and Transgressive Encounters.- 2 Interstitial spaces – A model for transgressive processes.- 3 Failed encounters, or the challenges of rendering gender a matter of concern.- 4 Images of cows, stories of gender.- 5 Techno Visions of a Sámi cyborg: re-claiming Sámi body-, land- and waterscapes after a century of colonial exploitations in Sábme.- 6 “Marking the Unmarked: Theorizing Intersectionality and Lived Embodiment through Mammoth and Antichrist”.- 7 When the Plant Kingdom Became Queer: On Hermaphrodites and the Linnaean Language of Non-normative Sex.- 8 Unyoking Sexual Difference: Law, Universality and the Excluded Other.