Predavanje obravnava odnos med konceptoma ‘fluidnost’ in ‘puščanje’ v povezavi z ženskim telesom, pri čemer se opira na dosedanje okoljevarstvene študije in študije spolov, z namenom prikazati podobnosti in razlike med zatiranjem žensk in izkoriščanjem okolja.Oba koncepta sta torej razumljena kot družbeno-spolna koncepta. Tako fluidnost kot puščanje predstavljata gibanje, a medtem ko je fluidnost opredeljena kot ‘zmožnost pretoka’, je samostalnik puščanje opredeljen kot ‘nenamerna luknja, razpoka in podobno, skozi katero pritekajo ali uhajajo tekočina, plin, svetloba.’

Tradicionalno se žensko telo dojema kot te…lo, ki pušča (Grosz 1994), kot počena posoda za telesne tokove, kot so menstruacija, laktacija, uhajanje urina in, bolj v zadnjem času, uhajanje silikona iz prsnih vsadkov. To je v nasprotju z dojemanjem fluidnosti moškega telesa, ki naj bi bila aktivna, kreativna in ki naj predvsem ne bi onesnaževala.

V sodobnih okoljevarstvenih študijah se koncept ‘puščanja’ uporablja kot sredstvo za razumevanje in analizo sodobnega upravljanja s smetmi, nuklearnimi odpadki in onesnaževanja zraka (van Wyck 2005; Gabrys 2009; Hird 2012, 2013). Te študije so zanimive, ker dopuščajo alternativno razumevanje ‘puščanja’, ne v smislu izjemnega stanja ali nenamernega pojava, pač pa kot neizogibno posledico vsakršnega poskusa zajezitve in s tem tudi kot nujen del vsakršnega sistema, ki to skuša preprečiti. Zadnje nam nudi nove vpoglede v običajno razumevanje odgovornosti posameznice, ko je, na primer, govora o menstruaciji.

Dr. Jennie Olofsson je predavateljica v HUMlab-u na Univerzi v Umei, na Švedskem, kjer preučuje upravljanje z elektronskimi odpadki (e-odpadki), osredotoča pa se predvsem na posmrtno življenje digitalnih tehnologij.
jennie.olofsson@humlab.umu.se

Predavanje bo v angleškem jeziku.

Organizacija: Rdeče zore
So-organizacija: Živko skvotec

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Lecture: Dr. Jennie Olofsson ‘On fluidity, leakage and the female body’

Informed by previous works within environmental studies and gender studies, this presentation discusses the relationship between the concepts of fluidity and leakage, especially in relation to the female body. Illustrating the relationship between fluidity and leakage, the ambition is to show similarities and differences between oppression of women and environmental exploitation.

What is proposed is an understanding of the two concepts as gendered. Both fluidity and leakage demonstrate movements, but while fluidity is defined as “the ability to flow”, leakage, or rather the noun leak is defined as “an unintended hole, crack, or the like, through which liquid, gas, light, etc. enters or escapes”.

The female body has traditionally been seen as a leaking body (Grosz 1994), a deficient container for body fluids such as menstruation, lactation, urine leakage and more recently silicon leakage from breast implants. This is in contrast to the male body whose body fluids often are seen as active, creative, and more importantly, non-polluting.

Looking at previous works within environmental studies (see for example van Wyck 2005; Gabrys 2009; Hird 2012, 2013) the concept of leakage has been used as a means to understand and analyze current management of garbage, nuclear waste and air pollution. The studies of Hird, van Wyck and Gabrys are interesting as they allow for an alternative understanding of leakages, not as an exceptional state nor an unexpected occurrence, but as an inevitable consequence of every attempt to enclose and contain, and by this a necessary part of any system that tries to prevent it. This in turn gives new insights to what is commonly seen as the individual women’s responsibility when it comes to, for example menstruation.

Jennie Olofsson (PhD) works as a Senior Assistant Lecturer at HUMlab, Umeå University, Sweden, where she investigates management of electronic waste (e-waste) focusing particularly on the afterlife of digital technologies. jennie.olofsson@humlab.umu.se

The lecture will be in English.

Organization: Red dawns
Co-organization: Živko skvotec