At the Early Career Researchers’ Summer school organised by the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change I delivered a 3 minute summary of my PhD, alluding to the key contributions of my current research:
- Offering waste workers a platform to express their discomfort from working with anatomical waste and to propose alternatives
- Adding new knowledge about necrowaste beyond funerary practices
- New perspective on how capitalism explores de-regulation – in this case to deprive the human corpse of its rights and to make it into waste
As part of the presentation I highlighted the value of using drawings in my research in the following forms:
- Ethography (site sketches)
- Illustrating research (holistic visual narrative of how a corpse transitions into necrowaste)
- Visual metaphors (conceptualisations of biopolitics, necroeconomy and infrastructural labour)
- Interventionalist workshops (a platform for collocutors to draw and reflect)
The jury of the presentations commended me with a third place and a University of Southampton’s branded tie.
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