Interventions aiming to promote gender equality are a common feature of global HIV/AIDS policies. To develop effective interventions, it is important to understand how globally established concepts (e.g. 'gender') are (re)interpreted and legitimated locally. This paper examines what happens when the concept of 'gender' hits the local ground in the context of an internationally funded HIV/AIDS i...

an urban map, the procedure composes the road-network by searching the roads from each intersection. Next, it In this paper, we propose an experimental method to modifies the road-network by interpreting the original urrecognize roads from an urban map on the basis of the ban map and the network simultaneously with heuristic road-network. The road-network is a conceptual graph knowledges about ...

Script is a productive figure to inscribe and analyse gender and diversity in design. This paper addresses one risk of the use of script in our desire to design for gender and diversity. We locate our discussion of this risk in two design perspectives, ‘design from nowhere’ and ‘design from somewhere’. With the help of two vignettes we discuss how ‘design from nowhere’ was perceived as a perspe...

Integrative transformative learning in a feminist perspective asks students to engage potentially troublesome and unsettling debates, confront their own privilege situated knowledges, experiment with conventional boundaries for knowledge production. We introduce the idea of “tentacular classroom” grounded work Haraway on tentacular thinking show ways which encounter, figured as organism, allows...

This is an open letter on academic culture, structural racism, and the place of Indigenous knowledges.