Queer Ecologies of Death in the Lab: Rethinking Waste, Decomposition and Death through a Queerfeminist Lens.
In this article I explore human and transgenic fruit fly relations in the laboratory and in relation to everyday practices of waste management. I rely on ethnographic material collected from one year of participatory observation in an Alzheimer's laboratory in Sweden, in which scientists work with D...
| Published in: | Australian Feminist Studies Vol. 35; no. 104; pp. 138 - 155 |
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