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Fantastic News! #MSCActions Fellows
This morning I received word that the Marie Curie grant proposal I have been working on over the summer has been accepted! This means that I will be working at the Catholic University of Leuven, more specifically a the Life Sciences and Society Lab, expertly headed by Prof. I. van Hoyweghen. The project engages closely … Continue reading
On Doing What’s Right: Lessons from Judicial Practice
The decisions judges have to make on a day-to-day basis are difficult: after all, they affect the defendant’s life deeply. In other words, they have to do the right thing. But what is ‘right’ to do in one context isn’t necessarily what’s right in another setting. How can we think about these evaluations and judgments, … Continue reading
Feeling Like a File-Worker: On Affects, Bureaucratic Investments, and Care
How do judges feel their way through their case load? What is the role of the emotions and of affects in bureaucratic practices anyway? And how can we develop the tools to do justice to the affective texture of file-work? It’s been in the making for a while now, but I am glad to be … Continue reading
Irene van Oorschot 