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- Arvidsson, Matilda, 1976
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Being Together - The Silent Touch of Plants. A Posthuman Account of Life, Death, and More-than-Human Kinship
- 2024
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Ingår i: The Fatigue Files Podcast.
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In this podcast episode, Professor Anna Grear speaks with Dr Matilda Arvidsson. Drawing on posthuman feminism, Matilda recounts her journey with non-human others in the form of plants as kin in a relationship of 'being together'. The conversation, which also touches on trauma, violence, life and death, invites a refreshing appreciation of how our relationship with non-humans are foundational to our own selves.
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- Arvidsson, Matilda, 1976
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Digital Echoes: Listening to New Normativities in International Law and Technology
- 2024
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Ingår i: Völkerrechtsblog.
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The first season of “Digital Echoes” brings together leading scholars in international law, international relations and legal theory to present their work and discuss the implications of an ever-increasing digitisation of socio-economic life from an (international) legal perspective. We have assembled a stellar group of thinkers who invite us to explore how Digital Technologies are changing and challenging the modes in which law and governance operate. How to formulate questions to address the relationship between international law and technology and its implications for governance? They invite us to think with them about what it means to talk about digital spaces or digital rights. To contemplate the topologies of normativity that these terms connote and to investigate how power operates in techno legal assemblages? Enjoy listening! In this podcast Andrea Leiter, Delphine Dogot, Matilda Arvidsson, Fleur Johns and Dimitri Van Den Meerssche explore different ways of how they came to engage with international law and technology.
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- Arvidsson, Matilda, 1976
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Evangelical Lutheran Mission, Law, and the Colonial State as Corporation: The “Thick” and the “Thin” of Sovereign Power in the Congo Free State, 1881–1908
- 2024
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Ingår i: The Laureate Research Program ‘Global Corporations & International Law’ podcast, Melbourne Law School, Australia.
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In 1881 Swedish Evangelical Lutheran missionaries from The Mission Covenant Church of Sweden (Svenska missionsförbundet) arrived at the entry of the Kongo river – there to stay until Congolese independence in 1961. While nominally in Congo to ‘christen the heathens,’ and to provide the teachings and structures needed to build a Christian model society, the Swedes became actively implicated in the colonial works of state-building. Several became civil servants – Officers Civile d’Etat – in the Free State. Yet, as the Free State gradually emerged as a ‘thin’ state, primarily operating as a corporation aiming at extracting natural resources from Congo – maximizing commercial profits for export to Europe, and implementing capitalist structures of labour and taxation – the Swedes took on ‘thick’ sovereign powers of state building: performing as Rule of Law actors in makeshift courts of law – implementing a combined version of pre-colonial Bakongo norms, Congo Free State Decrees, and Swedish Lutheran theological norms – setting up an education system, health clinics, and not the least insisting on eradicating the Bakongo matrilineal kinship structures and putting a strictly patriarchal, heterosexual, nuclear family structure in its place. This paper is based on archival work of the largest surviving archive on pre-colonial Congo and the Congo Free State, at the Swedish National Archives (Riksarkivet) in Stockholm. In contrast to previous research, which place the Swedish missionaries as colonial actors, I argue that the Swedes were state builders and Rule of Law actors deeply implicated with the Congo Free State, providing the ‘thick’ work so that the colonialists of the Free State could pursue its ‘thin’. Due acknowledgement to my project partner Dr Simon Larsson, University of Gothenburg, for his extensive archival work enabling this paper, as well as to Maxim Buchet, for research assistance and translation of original research documents from the French.
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- Arvidsson, Matilda, 1976, et al.
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International Law and Posthuman Theory: Introduction to the Blog Symposium
- 2024
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Ingår i: Planet Politics Institute.
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In this blog post symposium we are pleased to showcase our work and that of our authors of the International Law and Posthuman Theory (Routledge, 2024) on the Planet Politics Institute Blog. Over a series of forthcoming posts, several of our authors will discuss their work, exploring how their chapter speaks specifically to planet politics. While many of the chapters in the collection speak directly to environmental issues, most notably those in the section of the book titled ‘The Environment and the Nonhuman,’ what we found interesting, when reflecting on the works, is how each of them, in some way, speak back to the environment – be that through discussions of land, property and ownership or through a focus, for example, on the links between “old” and “new” materialism, or on racial capitalism. Interestingly, it seems that using a critical posthuman lens ensures that the environment, whether framed as nature itself or more broadly as matter, remains at the forefront of thought even when analysing topics that do not, on the face of it, seem to have much to do with environmental issues. This, for us, is one of the strengths of posthuman theory, in that it allows for a bringing together of multiple vectors of oppression and multiple issues of critical concern together, allowing for links to be drawn between, for example, between coloniality, capitalism and gender and the impact of those structures on the environment, legally, conceptually and practically.
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- Arvidsson, Matilda, 1976
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Jurisprudence of Gardens
- 2024
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Ingår i: Matilda Arvidsson (blog), Jurisprudence of Gardens.
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In this essay I make inquires in law's gardens, the gardens of international law's architecture, and of gardens of gendered and colonial violence. Through posthuman feminist theory and practice, as well as the poetry of Louise Glück and Rick Barot, I point to possibilities of more-than-human relationships of mutual care and respect as another jurisprudence of gardens.
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- Arvidsson, Matilda, 1976
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Kerstin Anér: Dataskuggan/the Data Shadow
- 2023
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Ingår i: Wikipedia. - : Wikipedia.
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Kerstin Anér myntade det i datavetenskap och datarätt förekommande begreppet dataskugga. Anér nämner termen första gången i tryckt media i den kristna kulturtidskriften Vår Lösen år 1972 i en essä med titeln "Dataskuggan". / Kerstin Anér coined the term Data Shadow, central to issues of data privacy law and politics. She mentions the terms for the first time (in print) in the Christian cultural magazine Vår Lösen in 1972, in an essay entitled "Dataskuggan" (the Data Shadow). The term has since become central to, and an established part of, computer science as well as debates on data privacy law, politics and ethics.
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- Arvidsson, Matilda, 1976, et al.
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Kerstin Anér, Pioneering Thinker of Data Power – Towards A Critical Reimagining the History of Data Law and Policy
- 2024
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Ingår i: Critical Legal Thinking.
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Questions of data, law, feminism and the environment are not new, and contrary to popular perceptions, were not discovered as a field of critical thought by contemporary scholars. These debates were already taking place in national and international fora in the 1960s and the 1970s. Among the most prolific European figures in those pioneering discussions, stood out the feminist, environmentalist, and critical thinker of computers, data and their relation with power, Kerstin Anér. While mostly forgotten today, Anér's contribution to international and national debates on data law and politics are central also to contemporary debates on data, artificial intelligence and law. In this essay we set out how and why.
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- Arvidsson, Matilda, 1976
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Knit, code, resist: Feminist performative practices of non-fascist living with AI and law
- 2024
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- How does knitting, code, law, and women's history of embodied and performative resistance come together? In this research project I explore relations between coding as women's knitted secret coded messages in the resistance movements during World War II, and everyday resistance to contemporary forms of surveillance through knitted "anti-surveillance" knitwear.
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- Arvidsson, Matilda, 1976
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My Sudanese Stills: Seeing the Prince of Tobacco
- 2022
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Ingår i: The Shipwrights Review of De-Centered English.
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Contemplating colonialism, death, and the impossibility of seeing what one is looking straight at, this creative non fiction short story fleshes out the darkness and desires of power and race structures in a Sudanese setting in the early years of the current millennia.
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