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BiGS Annual Lecture: Repair as a Regime of Practice

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Speakers: Dr Valeria Graziano (Centre for Advanced Studies – South Eastern Europe, University of Rijeka, Croatia) and Dr Kim Trogal (Reader in Social and Political Design, UCA Canterbury)

This event will take place on Blackboard Collaborate. A guest link will be sent to attendees 2 hours before it starts.

In our collaborative research, we articulate a specific position that brings feminist materialist politics as both critique and proposition at the centre of repair matters. In our talk we will explore repair as a regime of practice encapsulating a subset of those care practices and politics that have been the focus of feminist concerns that foreground social reproduction. We will address repair as a component of social reproduction that holds the possibility to protest, to reconfigure, to prefigure alternatives to current regimes of property, as well as to put forward the rights of the maintainers of spaces and infrastructures as legitimate.


Dr Valeria Graziano is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Advanced Studies – South Eastern Europe, University of Rijeka, Croatia. Dr Kim Trogal is Reader in Social and Political Design at the at the Canterbury School of Architecture, University for the Creative Arts, UK. Together, they have been researching emerging collective repair practices and exploring issues related to the technopolitics of care since 2017. They co-edited Repair Matters, a special issue of Ephemera. Theory and Politics in Organization (May 2019). Other recent publications include ‘On Domestic Fantasies and Anti-work Politics. A feminist history of complicating automation’ (in Theory & Event, January 2021) and ‘Covid-19 as a breakdown in the texture of social practices’ (in Gender, Work and Organisation, August 2020).

This event is supported by the Birkbeck Institiute for Social Research (BISR) and Birkbeck Gender & Sexuality (BiGS)

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Speakers
  • Dr Kim Trogal
  • Dr Valeria Graziano