Addressability: Identification and Communicative Positions in Critical Sociological Perspective
In this article we develop the concept of addressability to help us unpack processes of identification.
Configuring Parents as Citizens and Consumers: Local Variations in Informational Material about School Allocation and Choice in Sweden
Children and their families in Sweden might encounter different understandings of education depending on which municipality they live in.
Spaceships and Poetry: Enlivening the Lab as a Site of Feminist Critical Pedagogy
We analyse the critical potential of STS lab work in technical environments and provide recommendations from our evolving space of feminist praxis.
The Politics of Seamlessness: A Rights Claims Perspective on Digital Identification Technologies
We analyse seamlessness and political participation as digital identification becomes the invisible background of state-citizen interactions.
When Numbers Run Out: Civil Registration and the Performativity of Methods
Personal identification numbers used in the Nordic countries contain a fundamental tension that is impossible to resolve via technical fixes.
Risken är att 500 miljoner kronor kastas bort på en ny folkräkning
Mot bakgrund av kunskapsläget är vi förvånade över att regeringen och Sverigedemokraterna avser att driva igenom att Sverige ska genomföra en folkräkning.
Writing Bodies and Bodies of Text: Thinking Vulnerability Through Monsters
We suggest approaching writing as a vulnerable practice marked by an unstable boundary between bodies: bodies of text and bodies of writers.
Data Practices: Making Up a European People
The book develops a conception of data practices to analyze findings from collaborative ethnographic multisite fieldwork as part of a five-year project.
Data Subjects: Calibrating and Sieving
Who are the subjects of data practices? How do data practices configure the capacities of subjects to become part of a population?
Statistician Subjects: Differentiating and Defending
We consider how the statistician subject is being shaped, and the profession of national statistician repositioned, through professionalising practices.