is beginning her seminar "Reimagining Nuclear Power Through Feminist Epistemologies". It's being recorded by the organizers. I'll do some live-tweeting about it in this thread.
#feminism #WomenInSTEM #WomenInNuclear
(STS=Science and Technology Studies)
- What epistemologies have driven the culture of NE?
- How has the culture and narratives driven decision-making?
- How can we learn and change?
This is the complex of institutions that she is studying, epistemically.
medium.com/third-way/ener…
nature.com/articles/45003…
"... knowing and thinking are inconceivable without the multitude of relations that make possible the worlds we think with" (Puig de la Bellasca, 2017)
Denia highlights:
- It was a humbling moment.
- It was also a litmus test for the trust we place in institutions to handle disasters.
- And, interactions between human, organizational, and technical factors impacted safety.
Denia highlights:
- US approach had no vocabulary for consent-based siting.
- More participatory processes in siting nuclear SNF repositories have succeeded internationally (see: Sweden, Finland).
- Can we learn?
In this, she has introduced a phrase that I've never heard: "Gender mainstreaming." I should probably google it.