Sebastian Abrahamsson
Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Department of Sociology; Faculty
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- sebastian.abrahamsson@uu.se
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- Engelska parken
Thunbergsvägen 3H - Postal address:
- Box 624
751 26 UPPSALA
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Short presentation
I am currently working as a researcher in the project "Waste Work in the Sustainability Economy: Transforming Values of Biological Waste" ("Soparbete i hållbarhetsekonomin: värdeomvandlingar av spillvatten och matavfall") together with Tora Holmberg (PI), Malin Ideland and Claes-Fredrik Helgesson.
My main areas of interest and expertise are food and food waste, science and technology studies (STS), ethnography and qualitative methods.
Keywords
- qualitative methods
- sts
- ethnography
- • cultural analysis
- waste
Biography
My work is situated in science and technology studies (STS) but draws on experiences I have gained and lessons I have learned while moving between difference disciplines and countries. In 2011 I graduated as DPhil at the School of Geography in Oxford. 2011-2014 I worked as a postdocotoral fellow at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology in Amsterdam, and 2016-2018 I was funded by a Marie Curie individual grant at the SAXO institute, Copenhagen University.
In my previous research I have been interested in food waste and, more specifically, the various practices that consumers develop and are involved in to (try to) stop food going to waste. Currently I am exploring the different kinds of values created by transformation of organic wastes (food waste and waste water) into biogas and fertilizers. In particular, I am interested in where, how and by whom such values and valuations get done.
Publications
Recent publications
Resonant Sustainability: The Right to Repair as Resistance Against Acceleration
Part of Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on ICT for Sustainability (ICT4S), p. 282-291, 2024
Part of Hållbarhet ur ett rättsligt perspektiv, p. 289-314, Iustus förlag, 2023
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A defense of waste: the case of municipal food recycling in Sweden
Part of Environmental Sociology, p. 107-116, 2023
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The Swedish COVID-19 Enigma/Exception
Part of COVID-19 and a World of Ad Hoc Geographies, p. 97-112, Springer, 2022
Gnissel i maskineriet: Avfallshanterin i den cirkulära ekonomin
2021
All publications
Articles in journal
A defense of waste: the case of municipal food recycling in Sweden
Part of Environmental Sociology, p. 107-116, 2023
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Food repair: An analysis of the tensions between preventing waste and assuring safety
Part of Ephemera, p. 283-301, 2019
Becoming stronger by becoming weaker: the hunger strike as a mode of doing politics
Part of Journal of International Relations and Development, p. 882-898, 2019
Living with Omega-3: New Materialism and Enduring Concerns
Part of Environment & Planning. D, Society and Space, p. 4-19, 2015
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Compost politics: experimenting with togetherness in vermicomposting
Part of Environmental Humanities, p. 125-148, 2014
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An actor network analysis of constipation and agency: Shit happens
Part of Subjectivity, p. 111-130, 2014
Cooking, eating and digesting: Notes on the emergent normativities of food and speeds
Part of Time & Society, p. 287-308, 2014
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Empiricist interventions: Strategy and tactics on the ontopolitical battlefield
Part of Science & Technology Studies, p. 52-70, 2012
The limits of the body: boundaries, capacities, thresholds
Part of Social & cultural geography (Print), p. 331-338, 2011
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In conversation with the body conveniently known as Stelarc
Part of Cultural Geographies, p. 293-308, 2007
Chapters in book
Part of Hållbarhet ur ett rättsligt perspektiv, p. 289-314, Iustus förlag, 2023
- DOI for A digital right to repair?: How new EU legislation could open up data and software in connected products to enhance their lifespan
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The Swedish COVID-19 Enigma/Exception
Part of COVID-19 and a World of Ad Hoc Geographies, p. 97-112, Springer, 2022
Part of The Routledge Handbook of Mobilities, Routledge, 2014
Food's cultural geographies: Texture, creativity and publics
Part of The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Cultural Geography, p. 343-354, Wiley-Blackwell, 2013
Stillness re-animated: experiencing Body Worlds and the work of art
Part of Stillness in a mobile world, p. 155-171, Routledge, 2010
Kreativiteten och socialisationen
Part of Reclaim the Science!, p. 81-97, Gidlund, 2007
Conference papers
Resonant Sustainability: The Right to Repair as Resistance Against Acceleration
Part of Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on ICT for Sustainability (ICT4S), p. 282-291, 2024