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- Rydhagen, Birgitta
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Feminist Sanitary Engineering as a Participatory Alternative in South Africa and Sweden
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The main theme in this thesis is potentials for increased user participation in the development of ecological sanitation technologies. The argument is that ecological sanitary engineering can be regarded as a heterogeneous practice that needs to incorporate environmental considerations as well as users’ knowledges and aspirations. To be a heterogeneous engineer therefore means to acquire skills for advanced dialogue with the users and other stakeholders, rather than providing finished technical solutions. In a case study in rural South Africa, I found that much of the responsibility for taking initiatives for the transformation of the water supply and sanitation systems lies with the community. By contrast, a case study of ecological sanitation in urban Sweden revealed that there was generally very little room for user involvement; instead, sanitation specialists presented a picture of the users as recipients of technical systems and information. These two different cases form the basis for a discussion about the relationship between users and specialists and pose the question of how we can encourage participatory technology development practices that users, specialists and ecosystems can endure. On the basis of feminist theory, technoscience and participatory methodologies, I have identified some criteria for feminist sanitary engineering. These include recognition of diversity, feminism beyond gender/deep feminism, reflectivity and heterogeneous engineering, and action research and user participation. The transformation of sanitary engineering towards the inclusion of these criteria is a long-term process, which needs to begin with reflection among sanitation specialists.
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- Rydhagen, Birgitta
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Feminist sanitary engineering in Vioolsdrif, South Africa
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Ingår i: Gender, Technology and Development. - 0971-8524 .- 0973-0656. ; 6:2, s. 249-267
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In rural South Africa, many households still lack adequate water supply & sanitation facilities. Successful efforts to improve the situation require negotiations between actors in the engineering, user, environmental, cultural & socio-economic contexts. This article attempts to identify the different actors & activities in the present & future water supply & sanitation in Vioolsdrif in north-western South Africa. The gender aspects of water, sanitation & participation in decision-making are highlighted as well as the more fundamental points of departure for a concept of feminist sanitary engineering.
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- Rydhagen, Birgitta, et al.
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ICT and the role of universities : a technopolitical and postcolonial challenge
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- ICT and the role of universities - a technopolitical and postcolonial challenge When ICT (information and communication technology) development issues are situated in the context of knowledge- and technology co-development between low and high income countries, the need for understandings and praxis of postcolonial ICT emerge and the challenges for the academy and its technical faculties enhance. Relevance seems to be a core concept often raised. For development the change of position from merely technology transfer to co-development is strongly in demand. Feminist technoscience with emphasis on ICT is certainly motivated by transformation goals. The reasons for transformation are not only seen in the ongoing difficulties of achieving appropriate ICT system solutions especially in low income countries, but in the way we face contemporary processes of knowledge and technology development. The prerequisites for the latter are still to be met, and urge for transformation not the least within technical faculties of universities. Experiences from development of feminist technoscience within technical faculties implies recognitions of techno- and research politics deeply rooted in understandings of knowledge and technology production as processes, which occur in distributed systems. In other words, knowledge creation takes place on the boundaries between universities, companies (private sector) and other regional, national and international actors (public sector). Hence the role of the university comes into sharp focus and its (dis)ability of transformation. In the study presented experiences from University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden, will be discussed.
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- Rydhagen, Birgitta
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Naturvetenskap/ teknik och feminism
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Ingår i: Gråt gärna - men forska. - : Linköpings universitet. - 917373084X ; , s. 99-100
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Rydhagen, Birgitta, et al.
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Prerequisites for Postcolonial ICT
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Ingår i: Kvinnoforskningsnytt. - Luleå : Avdelningen för genus&teknik, Luleå tekniska universitet. - 1401-5390. ; :1
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Informationsteknik, IT, postkolonialism, feministisk teknovetenskap, genusforskning, teknopolitik
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