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- Arvidsson, Matilda, 1976
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DIY Plant Milk: A Recipe-Manifesto and Method of Ethical Relations, Care, and Resistance
- 2019
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In: Making Milk: The Past, Present and Future of Our Primary Food. - London : Bloomsbury. - 9781350029965
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This recipe-manifesto considers the political theology of milk as perfecting a relation: between mother and child, between sovereign state and lawful citizen, and between corporation and consumer. Insisting on the importance of milk as inherently relational, I suggest that instead of swapping dairy for plant milk at the grocery store, or considering plant milk as superior to dairy, making plant milk the DIY (do it yourself) way offers a method of ethical relations, care, and resistance. An oat milk recipe is provided, including simple and straightforward instructions. The slowness of making milk, the essay suggests, allows us to value the labor we put into milk. It further forces us to reflect on the reasons why we need it and want it, including a more careful consideration of which relations we want to foster through milk and which relations we must, or want to, resist.
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- Arvidsson, Matilda, 1976, et al.
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Eating, meat, catastrophe : Stream, Critical Legal Conference, Warwick 1-3 September 2017
- 2017
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In: Critical Legal Conference 2017 Stream, Warwick 1-3 September 2017..
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Human life depends on and is sustained by the death and consummation of others. Unless we eat something or someone we cannot live ourselves. Yet, we divide over what, how, and who to eat. This stream asks us to consider how our eating of others (plants, human-, and non-human animals) sustains our standing in a global legal-political order of gendered speciesism. Through technology of eating, we imperviously transform living entities into objects for us to eat, while simultaneously disclosing (sexual) politics of our eating (Adams, 2015). You are what you eat as Han Kang’s The Vegetarian (2009) solicitously portrays. Consuming is not simply an ethical choice but also a profoundly ontological one, or as Stanescu suggests ‘a perpetual process of self-metamorphosis’ (2012, 39). Part of such a process is to define what constitutes meat – is ‘meatless’ in vitro meat (IVM), promising animal liberation and cleaner environment, meat? (Stephens, 2013) – and devouring others. But does constant boundary-work risk to turn us into a standing-reserve of future consumption (Heidegger, 1977: 27), of us turning into cannibals ready to mutilate and enslave (Engle, 1992: 1519)? Would cannibal veganism amount to greater realization of rights of both consumed and consumer or into a catastrophic collapse of our relationship with Nature and the animal-in-us (Viveiros de Castro 2014 & Sutton 2017)? Taking the overall theme of the conference ‘catastrophe’ to mean the life-producing, slow, everyday event of being through the death of others this stream asks if what, how, and whom we eat may tell us something important about our moral and legal standing.
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- Arvidsson, Matilda, 1976
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Exercising the right authority during belligerent occupation: The Authority of the Coalition Provisional Authority of occupied Iraq : 2018 Annual Convention of ISA, Roundtable theme: Legitimate authority in just war theory and international law. Convenor: Pål Wrange
- 2018
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In: International Studies Association (ISA) Annuam Convention 2018, San Fransisco.
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- In the wake of the Iraq war the US-UK headed Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) was set up to govern Iraq for the duration of the occupation. Although it is not an obligation under the international law of belligerent occupation to set up a separate administrative body for governance during occupation it is, as Yoram Dinstein puts it, ‘a sensible step’. Resulting from a largely functional approach to governance during occupation the legal and political configuration of the CPA raised a number of fundamental questions regarding the sources of its authority to exercise judicial, legislative, and executive authority in Iraq for the duration of the occupation. While it is clear that ‘coalition’ refers to the shared responsibilities of the two countries heading the occupation – the US and the UK – and ‘provisional’ refers to the temporal aspect of governance, it is less clear what ‘authority’ denotes in the given context. Previous research on the CPA has focused primarily on the failure of success and the legality of the largely transformative CPA legal acts, reviewing these as exceeding what the international law of belligerent occupation permits an occupying power to do. My contribution to this discussion is a shift in focus from this particular kind of ‘legality’ (as only refereeing to the contemporary IHL framework) to instead consider the authority exercised by the CPA within the broader context of right and legitimate authority. To this effect I ask what kind of provisional authority the CPA exercised in Iraq, on which grounds, pursuant to which criteria, and to what ends?
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- Arvidsson, Matilda, 1976
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Feminist legal scholarship’s turn to posthumanism, AI and technology: Hélène Cixous’ écriture feminine in contemporary feminist legal scholarship
- 2022
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In: The Forgotten Foundations of Feminist Legal Scholarship. Part I: 1970-1985.
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- This paper considers Hélène Cixous’ écriture feminine (‘writing feminine’) in contemporary feminist legal scholarship, and especially its relation to the turn to feminist posthumanism, AI and technology. To write one self through écriture feminine is a feminist act in contestation to the ‘phallocentric’ search for the law’s (phallo-)‘originary first term or logos’. The article discusses the importance of ‘writing one self’ as legal scholars in our own time, and how this is and can be done in computer code as well as in other forms of writing in legal scholarship. Legal scholarship has often considered Cixous’ work in the context of ‘the linguistic turn’ – a turn that has been out of vogue for some time now. Hence, Cixous’ écriture feminine is rarely explicitly referred to as part of contemporary feminist legal scholarship. In this article, however, I show that Cixous’ scholarship, and her écriture feminine, is central to contemporary feminist legal scholarship in its turn to feminist posthumanism, AI and technology: The feminist tradition of écriture feminine continues to interrupt the phallocentric predatory imperative embedded in the world, regardless of ‘turns’ and ‘vouges’.
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- Arvidsson, Matilda, 1976, et al.
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FOREWORD: GARDENS OF JUSTICE
- 2013
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In: Australian Feminist Law Journal. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1320-0968 .- 2204-0064. ; 39:1
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- Arvidsson, Matilda, 1976, et al.
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International Law and Posthuman Theory
- 2022
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In: Law and Society Association Global Meeting 2022.
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- This panel brings together voices from across the field of international law, bringing to the fore how posthuman theory can be used to better understand and tackle some of the challenges that contemporary international law and is facing. From international taxation to human rights and beyond, our concern is with questioning fundamental principles and conceptions of the Anthropocene, late capitalism, and the role of the human in a posthuman world.
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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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In: Planet Politics Institute.
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Other publication (other academic/artistic)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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International Law PhD Supervision Pedagogy: A Psycho/Analytical Situation of Counter/Transference
- 2024
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In: The Significance of Greger Noll. - Lund : Livonia Print. - 9789152794043 ; , s. 107-118
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Book chapter (other academic/artistic)abstract
- This essay traces my work in co-developing a pedagogical framework for PhD supervision together with Gregor Noll, as I worked pursuant to a doctoral degree in international law. It draws on French psychoanalytic scholar Jean Laplanche and argues that the notion and practice of transference in the psychoanalytical situation - as part of psychoanalytical theory and practice - may be helpful as a pedagogical tool for PhD supervision in international law and beyond.
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- Arvidsson, Matilda, 1976
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Invited speech: From Posthumanitarian Targeting Practices to an International Posthumanitarian Law: Rethinking Law, Gender and the Human through Posthumanist Feminist Theory and Contemporary Intelligent Warfare Technologies
- 2018
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In: Invited speech, University of Technology Sydney the Feminist Legal Research Group and the International Law Research Cluster.
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Focusing on targeting practices in contemporary intelligent warfare, this talk brings international humanitarian legal scholarship into conversation with posthumanist feminist theory for the purpose of rethinking international humanitarian law (IHL) in terms of the posthuman condition. In the talk, traditional IHL targeting doctrine is explicated as hinging on stable gender dichotomies (male/combatant – female/civilian) whereas contemporary intelligent warfare, in contrast and in practice, concerns itself with the ‘posthuman’ or more-than-human converging material and digital ‘targetable’ body. Moreover, the practice of targeting in contemporary intelligent warfare is explained as carried out by similarly converging material human-machine and human-artificial intelligence entities (including drones, and practices of Big Data collection and neuro-enhancement). The latter bringing to the fore new questions and concerns of human/non-human accountability in warfare. In considering these posthuman intelligent warfare targeting practices and new ways of imagining ethical and legal norms of responsibility in the posthuman condition I argue that posthumanist feminist theory – in particular Rosi Braidotti’s scholarship – is useful. Her scholarship avails us of a much-needed critical position from which to reframe the question of the ‘human’ in ‘humanitarian’ international law, practice, and in terms of legal accountability. The aim of the talk is to bring to the fore the potentials and possibilities in thinking posthuman feminist ontology as a basis of a posthumanitarian international law and as a basis for relational accountability in posthuman intelligent warfare.
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- Arvidsson, Matilda, 1976
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Kerstin Anér: Dataskuggan/the Data Shadow
- 2023
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In: Wikipedia. - : Wikipedia.
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Other publication (other academic/artistic)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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