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View article: Mentoring as a Distributed Practice of Care: A Conversation
Mentoring as a Distributed Practice of Care: A Conversation Open
The conversation that we perform seeks to foreground mentoring as a collegial and distributed practice of reciprocity, care, and support happening in the interstices of academia. We argue that mentoring in academia can be a distributed pro…
View article: Posthuman feminism and feminist new materialism: towards an ethico-onto-epistemology in research practices
Posthuman feminism and feminist new materialism: towards an ethico-onto-epistemology in research practices Open
Following the principles of post-humanism ("post" to the humanist universalism of "Man") and post-anthropocentrism ("post" to the exceptionalism of the human species), and by conflating them into the concept of ethico-onto-epistemology, we…
View article: Performing the care crisis through the datafication of elderly welfare care
Performing the care crisis through the datafication of elderly welfare care Open
Demographic changes associated with contemporary society are often framed as a ‘care crisis’ where the aging population is portrayed as threatening the financial security and the future of younger generations. To rationally intervene in th…
View article: When Theory meets Practice in Entanglements of Ageing and Technology
When Theory meets Practice in Entanglements of Ageing and Technology Open
This special issue contributes to the new academic field known as Socio-gerontechnology, which has emerged at the cross-section of STS and Age Studies. All contributions published in the following pages explore what happens when theories m…
View article: Ageing as a Boundary Object. Thinking Differently of Ageing and Care
Ageing as a Boundary Object. Thinking Differently of Ageing and Care Open
Ageing is not only a chronological matter. The following contributions at the crossroad of STS, material gerontology, design, and medical sociology offer alternative views on ageing and care. Ageing emerges as a boundary object through whi…
View article: Readingwriting: becoming-together in a Composition
Readingwriting: becoming-together in a Composition Open
In this paper, we share with the reader our individual and collective experience of a reading circle organised during the pandemic, at a time of social distancing. The collective reading allowed 'us' to become-with other humans, non-humans…
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Issue Information Open
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View article: Academy in my flesh: affective athleticism and performative writing
Academy in my flesh: affective athleticism and performative writing Open
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Drawing on affect theory and research on academic capitalism, this book examines the contemporary crisis of universities. With 11 international and comparative case studies, it offers a uniq…
View article: Alice in Wondertheatre: An Affective Ethnography
Alice in Wondertheatre: An Affective Ethnography Open
In March 2020, Bergamo was hit by the first wave of the pandemic. More than 6000 people have died in the area, where the emergency facilities lived in a stressful situation for months. In January 2022, a group of ER doctors and nurses from…
View article: The Posthumanist Epistemology of Practice Theory
The Posthumanist Epistemology of Practice Theory Open
In this contribution, we wish to discuss how methods are produced in the inextricable connection between researcher and research practices. We assume that research methods imply total immersion for the researcher in the research practices,…
View article: Hacking age
Hacking age Open
This article is a critical interdisciplinary study of biohacking as a specific case of transhumanism and its goals of enhancement and age intervention. It focuses on the organising principles underlying the biohacking movement's relationsh…
View article: Materialities of care for older people: caring together/apart in the political economy of caring apparatus
Materialities of care for older people: caring together/apart in the political economy of caring apparatus Open
By applying a posthuman perspective to the analysis of care for older people (COP), we analyse the agential cuts (together/apart) enacted by humans (mainly caregivers and older people) and more-than-humans (a camera intra-acting with other…
View article: Elderliness
Elderliness Open
Posthumanism provides openings to think differently about ageing and assistive technologies within the phenomenon of elderliness, the latter being defined as a relational social-material phenomenon enacted by the intra-actions between huma…
View article: COVID‐19 as a breakdown in the texture of social practices
COVID‐19 as a breakdown in the texture of social practices Open
‘A lot of things need to be repaired and a lot of relationships are in need of a knowledgeable mending. Can we start to talk/write about them?’ This invitation — sent by one of the authors to the others — led us, as feminist women in acade…
View article: Atmosphere in Participatory Design
Atmosphere in Participatory Design Open
The relationship between democracy and design has been the topic of significant discussion in the design community. It is also at the core of participatory design that relies on the principle of genuine participation. According to this, us…
View article: Disturbing the AcademicConferenceMachine: Post‐qualitative re‐turnings
Disturbing the AcademicConferenceMachine: Post‐qualitative re‐turnings Open
Author 1: They say they want to disturb the AcademicConferenceMachine. Author 34: What is an AcademicConferenceMachine? Author 2: Please do not go in that direction. Ask, for example, what does an AcademicConferenceMachine do? Author 51: O…
View article: COMPLEMENTARY REPRESENTATIONAL PRACTICES FOR ARTICULATING MATTERS OF CONCERN
COMPLEMENTARY REPRESENTATIONAL PRACTICES FOR ARTICULATING MATTERS OF CONCERN Open
Matters of concern can be defined as complicated, engaging, diverse, fragile, and situated issue for which we care. Researchers can contribute to articulating them. In this paper, we discuss one methodological aspect that influences the ar…
View article: Infrastructuring for remote night monitoring : Frictions in striving for transparency when digitalising care service
Infrastructuring for remote night monitoring : Frictions in striving for transparency when digitalising care service Open
The question of how to organise for the introduction of a new service involving the interaction of humans and technologies is both crucial and challenging. Convergence between the community of practice using the technology and the design o…
View article: Organizational members as storywriters: on organizing practices of reflexivity
Organizational members as storywriters: on organizing practices of reflexivity Open
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe how organizational members became storywriters of an important process of organizational change. Writing became a practice designed to create a space, a time and a methodology with which to …
View article: Ubiquitous technologies for older people
Ubiquitous technologies for older people Open
In this paper, we present a close reading of work in ubicomp of applications for older people. Starting from three lines of enquiry defined in the inaugural issue of this journal, we discuss how ubicomp research has presented the relations…
View article: Exploring theater of the oppressed for participatory design
Exploring theater of the oppressed for participatory design Open
Design challenges refer to a difficulty of corresponding human and contextual complexity (i.e. needs, roles, and resources) in design practices. Such an issue calls for combining deep investigations with relevant design experiences. We pro…
View article: Subversive participatory design
Subversive participatory design Open
This paper grounds in a research experience for engaging olderpeople as co-designers of several wearable and in-housetechnologies. We start by describing a case study that is a pre-commercial procurement aimed at developing innovativeservi…