- Culinary Culture and Tourism
- Crafts, Textile, and Design
- Management and Organizational Studies
- Gender, Feminism, and Media
- Obesity and Health Practices
- Media, Gender, and Advertising
- Participatory Visual Research Methods
- Contemporary Literature and Criticism
- Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
- Data Analysis and Archiving
- Social Media and Politics
- Computational and Text Analysis Methods
- Architecture, Design, and Social History
- Economic Development and Digital Transformation
- Education, Healthcare and Sociology Research
- Geographies of human-animal interactions
- Gender Diversity and Inequality
- Organic Food and Agriculture
- Digital Communication and Language
- Innovative Human-Technology Interaction
- Legal Education and Practice Innovations
- University-Industry-Government Innovation Models
- Diversity and Impact of Dance
- Legal Issues in Education
- Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development
IT University of Copenhagen
2019-2023
Roskilde University
2022
Aarhus University
2019
University of Southern Denmark
2015-2018
University of Copenhagen
2014
This paper focuses on the experiences of self-identified fat women employees. Combining works Karen Barad and Sara Ahmed, we offer a feminist new materialist analysis production difference in organizations related to size as an entanglement bodies, discourses, organizational materials affect. We show how our participants predominantly became shameful ‘bad fit’ within their jobs through intra-action large bodies with obesity discourse such chairs workwear. Yet also illustrate some...
Abstract In this paper, we offer a collective, multi‐vocal reflection on using poetry for research purposes. These were reflections an online sub‐plenary session organized as workshop, which was held at the European Group Organization Studies conference in 2021. During first three authors presented step‐by‐step method doing poetic inquiry and invited participants to apply it their own empirical data or praxis. The created response marginalization of affect embodiment mainstream organization...
In this article, we examine the ways in which encountering of “other” food cultures is played out two travelogue cooking shows Gordon's Great Escape and Jamie's Italian Escape. We investigate how protagonist chefs, Jamie Oliver Gordon Ramsay, imagine, meet evaluate these programs, paying special attention to encounter with local Indian imagined be a gateway an authentic and/or primitive experience. Our main argument that despite “noble” intentions their “enlightened” cosmopolitan approach...
Abstract In this article, we suggest approaching writing as a vulnerable practice marked by an unstable boundary between bodies: bodies of text and writers. We present exercise‐method that refer to Monster Writing, which have developed in order engage with these instabilities well address experiences difficulty, anxiety uncertainty relation the process. Though process can at times be exciting thrilling, other perhaps little tedious mundane, for some it also presents (more than) occasional...
In this paper, I examine the online platforms that present and facilitate two highly profiled diets: vegan meal service 22Days Nutrition goop.com's detoxes. goop detoxes are noteworthy case studies because they showcase a shift in way dieting is approached contemporary moment. Rather than being concerned exclusively with weight loss, these diets stress emotional value reward their restrictive approach to eating offers. The rarely equate attaining thinness or but rather an abstract sense of...
Katrine Meldgaard Kjær*aa Business IT University, Copenhagen, DenmarkKatrine Kjær is a postdocteral researcher at the University in Denmark. In her PhD, she examined food advice texts on obesity and overweight popular culture. She has previously published Food Culture Society: An International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research (2015), Foodways (2017), Feminist Media Studies (2018).
The author considers the relationship between bodies, food, and construction of "obese" subject in Oprah Winfrey's self-help book Make Connection Morgan Spurlock's film Super Size Me. Interestingly, process becoming these texts has very little to do with gaining weight. Instead, it is highly dependent on Winfrey food eating, circumstances which this eating takes place. Accordingly, article argues that truly understand how subjects are created as a part "obesity epidemic" here, one must...
Digital methods, taken up in the collection and analysis of data, raise concerns around extraction, representation, care, consent, participation familiar to feminist methodologies. At a STS lab, specialising digital we convened some workshops support research design ongoing projects situated Lab's community, with aim articulate principles for methods. These projects, working methods including ethnography, database implementation, machine learning questions centring care data participation,...
This article combines qualitative and quantitative methods to examine affectivity in discussions on Twitter about the first years of a pilot programme for medicinal cannabis Denmark. Starting 2018, has been object much public discussion, including social media. Drawing data from platform affect theory Sara Ahmed (2010 , 2014 ), uses combination computational close readings locate analyse which topics debate are particularly affectively charged what implications this are. The argues that...
This paper considers the ways in which silences and absences are a central part of research that relies on automated data collection from social media or internet. In recent years, driven supported methods have gained popularity within sciences humanities. With this increase popularity, it becomes ever more pertinent to consider how engage with digital data, both engagement situated, messy, contingent. Based experiences “missing” mobilizes framework hauntology make sense what relationships...
Food is many things.At the most basic level, food nutrition, a necessity for our collective survival.It prevents us from starving or becoming sick, and provides with energy we need to live preform tasks.But much more than this.Food also social cultural -just consider how central experience of eating when celebrate, turn on TV watch latest cooking-or baking show, do business over lunch meetings.Indeed, food, culinary traditions are omnipresent in contemporary culture often key elements...
Food, Gender and Media – the Trinity of Bad Taste:Since she began working in field mid-1980s, associate professor media studies at Aarhus University Karen Klitgaard Povlsen has been one most important scholars cultural food Denmark. She is particularly interested relation to gender media, published widely on subject. In this interview, provides a Danish perspectiveon study gender, including brief history area her thoughts its current status potentials. argues that while do not enjoy same...
On the eve of General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) coming into effect we, a university laboratory, marked occasion with an interactive installation called Compliance. traces from Compliance were subsequently processed by lab, here enacted in form play. While much discussion has centered around modern 'black-boxed' processing data, less attention been paid to value data itself, and whether it merits use. We draw on dramaturgical methods for both analysis presentation [15], allowing...