Leakage. Normative currents, intrinsic resistances and moments of disruption

This research application aims to finalize a long-term, intermittent work that commenced in 2012 where I have sought to combine the fields of gender studies and discard studies. The purpose is to formulate a first draft of a more comprehensive and theoretically oriented monograph, focusing on leakage. Leakage is of interest to scholars, both within gender studies and discard studies as it relates to concepts such as risk, embodiment and waste.

While gender studies shows how leakage has come to stick to (female) bodies, leakage is employed within discard studies to explore different risks with practices of waste management, including landfilling and storage of nuclear waste. The project contributes to current tenets in that it sheds light on leakage in and through these various readings.

The work on the text will take place during the year of 2022. It includes a three-month stay abroad. Three themes comprise the book's overall structure: Leakage, waste and body (two months), Leakage, risk and waste management (three months) and Leakage, risk and body (five months).

The work with these three themes is based on previous ethnographic fieldworks and the texts produced as a result of these fieldworks. Focus is mainly on revising and developing these texts. When it comes to the third theme, 5-10 interviews will be conducted with politicians and decision makers, as a complement to the material already collected. An additional two months will be spent, compiling the three themes.