Donna Haraway

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Donna Haraway with the dog Cayenne (2006).

Donna Jeanne Haraway (born September 6, 1944 in Denver , Colorado ) is an emeritus American professor at the Department of History of Consciousness and the Department of Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz . The natural science historian and women's researcher has been described as a feminist and close to postmodernism since the early 1990s (“feminist, rather loosely a postmodernist”).

She is the author of a large number of books and essays dealing with the tension between socialist feminism, science , primates , cyborgs and pets, e.g. A Cyborg Manifesto : Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century (1985), Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective (1988), Simians , Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature (1991) and The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People and Significant Otherness (2003).

Life

Haraway was born in 1944 to Dorothy Maguire Haraway and Frank O. Haraway and grew up in a Catholic environment. She studied zoology, philosophy, and English at the Colorado Collage . On a Fulbright Foundation scholarship , she came to Paris to study evolutionary philosophy and theology at the Fondation Teilhard de Chardin and obtained a doctorate (Ph. D.) in 1972 from the Biology Faculty of Yale University for a scientific history dissertation on the role of Metaphors in Twentieth-Century Developmental Biology, published in 1976 with the title Crystals, Fabrics, and Fields: Metaphors of Organicism in Twentieth-Century Developmental Biology .

Haraway has taught at the University of Hawaii and Johns Hopkins University and is now professor and former dean of the History of Consciousness program at the University of California, Santa Cruz ("History of Consciousness").

In 2019 Haraway was elected to the British Academy .

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In 1985 Haraway published A Cyborg Manifesto , a postmodern socialist - feminist essay that illuminates the possible interfaces between man and machine. In September 2000, Haraway received the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) highest recognition, the JD Bernal Award, for her life's work.

Donna Haraway is a practitioner of post-structuralism . She discusses different forms of power and pleasure , especially in technologically mediated societies. It focuses on changing class , race and gender in our society. Her anti-essentialist perspective also shapes her criticism of science, in which she tries to dissolve and rethink dichotomous categories such as the “demarcation between man / woman, man / machine and physical / metaphysical”. Instead of supposedly objective standpoints , she calls for a concept of situated knowledge that wants to “take responsibility for one's own positions and expose the divine trick of the supposedly domination-free, universally valid androcentric scientific principle” (Laura Dobusch).

In her essays Dogs with Added Value and Living Capital (2007), The Companion Species Manifesto (2003) and When Species Meet (2007), Haraway explains that humans and animals influence one another in their encounters. Against the background of the importance that these encounters have for the capitalist economy, family and kinship constructions, war and technosciences and for ideas of emancipation, she emphasizes that the categories of nature and culture are not sufficient for understanding these encounters. The revenants of Marx , who understood the concepts of use and exchange value as a designation for relationships, would have to expand this terminology to include the concept of encounter value if they were to use Marx's terminology for the analysis of biocapital.

She summarizes the coexistence of different species, such as humans and animals, in the term companion species . Pets are not only viewed as companions and companions of people, in which the human being is the focus of action, but forms of living environments between humans and animals, in which the interaction is not determined by humans alone. The examples that Haraway analyzes here range from the use of dogs in torture in the Iraq war to rehabilitation measures in American penal institutions, in which prisoners and dogs are put into a criminal transformation relationship. Here, the upbringing of the dogs, which are kept under lock and key by the human prisoners, decides whether the animals are free or dead: “The transitions between role model function and obedience to orders, between the roles of teacher and student, physical docility and mutual spiritual rapprochement are for humans and Dogs equally fluent. Life and death are at stake in the corporate complex of industry and the penal system. Discourses on the rehabilitation of prisoners were seldom clearer. "

Publications

  • Crystals, Fabrics, and Fields: Metaphors of Organicism in Twentieth-Century Developmental Biology. Yale University Press, New Haven 1976.
  • The Biological Enterprise: Sex, Mind, and Profit from Human Engineering to Sociobiology. In: Radical History Review. no. 20, spring / summer 1979, pp. 206-237.
  • Signs of Dominance: From a Physiology to a Cybernetics of Primate Society, CR Carpenter, 1930-70. In: Studies in History of Biology. Volume 6, 1983, pp. 129-219.
  • Teddy Bear Patriarchy: Taxidermy in the Garden of Eden, New York City, 1908-36. In: Social Text. no. 11, Winter 1984/1985, pp. 19-64.
  • Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s. In: Socialist Review. Volume 80, 1985, pp. 65-108.
    • A manifesto for cyborgs. In: Donna Haraway: Reinventing Nature. Primates, cyborgs and women. Campus-Verlag , Frankfurt am Main 1995, pp. 33-72.
  • Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspectives. In: Feminist Studies . Volume 14, 1988, pp. 575-599. doi: 10.2307 / 3178066 .
  • The Biopolitics of Postmodern Bodies: Determinations of Self in Immune System Discourse. In: differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies. Volume 1, no. 1, 1989, pp. 3-43.
  • Primate Visions. Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science. Routledge , New York 1989.
  • Simians, Cyborgs, and Women. The Reinvention of Nature. Routledge, New York 1991.
    • trans. Carmen Hammer: The reinvention of nature. Primates, cyborgs and women. Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1995, ISBN 3-593-35241-9 .
  • The Promises of Monsters: Reproductive Politics for Inappropriate / d Others. In: Larry Grossberg, Cary Nelson, Paula Treichler (Eds.): Cultural Studies. Routledge, New York 1992, pp. 295-337.
  • Ecce Homo, Ain't (Ar'n't) I a Woman, and Inappropriate / d Others: the Human in a Posthumanist Landscape. In: Joan Scott, Judith Butler (Eds.): Feminists Theorize the Political. Routledge, New York 1992, pp. 87-101.
  • Otherworldly Conversations, Terran Topics, Local Terms. In: Science as Culture. (London). Volume 3, no. 1, 1992, pp. 59-92.
  • A Game of Cat's Cradle: Science Studies, Feminist Theory, Cultural Studies. In: Configurations. Volume 2, 1994, pp. 59-71. doi: 10.1353 / con.1994.0009 .
  • Monstrous promises. The gender and technology essays. Argument-Verlag, Hamburg 1995, ISBN 3-88619-234-2 . (extended new edition 2017, ISBN 978-3-86754-504-4 )
  • Modest_Witness@Second_Millennium.FemaleManhaben_Meets_Oncomouse Brille. Routledge, New York 1996.
  • The Companion Species Manifesto. Dogs, People, and Significant Otherness. Prickly Paradigm Press, 2003.
    • trans. Jennifer Sofia Theodor: The Manifesto for Companions: When Species Meet - Dogs, Humans, and Significant Differences . Merve Verlag, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-88396-385-3 .
  • When Species Meet. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis 2007, ISBN 978-0-8166-5045-3 .
  • Staying with the Trouble. Making Kin in the Chthulucene. Duke University Press, Durham 2016, ISBN 978-0-8223-6224-1 .

reception

  • Donna Haraway: Story Telling for Earthly Survival . ("Storytelling for Earthly Survival"), film by Fabrizio Terranova, 2016

literature

  • Karin Harrasser : Donna Haraway . In: Stephan Moebius , Dirk Quadflieg (Ed.): Culture. Present theories . VS - Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2006, ISBN 3-531-14519-3 .
  • Joseph Schneider: Donna Haraway (Live Theory) . Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd., New York 2005, ISBN 0-8264-6278-2
  • Jutta Weber : Feminism & Constructivism. On network theory at Donna Haraway . In: The argument. Journal of Philosophy and Social Sciences 227, No. 5, 1998, pp. 699–712
    • Donna Haraway. Technoscience, New World Order and Trickster - stories for living worlds . In: Diana Lengersdorf, Matthias Wieser (Hrsg.): Key works in science and technology research / Science & Technology Studies . Bielefeld: VS Verlag 2014, pp. 155–169

Web links

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Literature cited

  • Donna J. Haraway: Simians, Cyborgs, and Women. The Reinvention of Nature . Free Association Books, London 1991, ISBN 978-1-85343-139-5 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://feministstudies.ucsc.edu/faculty/singleton.php?&singleton=true&cruz_id=haraway ( en ) Archived from the original on March 17, 2017. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved March 16, 2017. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / feministstudies.ucsc.edu
  2. ^ Robert M. Young: Science, Ideology and Donna Haraway . In: Science as Culture . 15, No. 3, 1992, p. 179.
  3. ↑ Donna Haraway: A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century . In: Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature . Routledge, 1990, ISBN 978-0-415-90387-5 , pp. 149-181.
  4. ^ Donna Haraway, Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective . In: Feminist Studies . 14, No. 3, Autumn 1988, pp. 575-599.
  5. ↑ Donna Haraway, Carmen Hammer, Immanuel Stieß: Reinventing Nature: Primates, Cyborgs and Women . Campus, Frankfurt 1995, ISBN 978-3-593-35241-1 (accessed on March 17, 2017).
  6. ↑ Donna Haraway: The companion species manifesto: dogs, people, and significant otherness , 2nd printing .. Edition, Prickly Paradigm Press, Chicago, Ill. 2003, ISBN 978-0-9717575-8-5 (accessed March 17, 2017 ).
  7. ↑ Haraway 1991, p. Vi.
  8. ↑ Katharina Pühl, Anne Scheidhauer, Dagmar Fink and Barbara Ege: We are always right in the middle. An interview with Donna Haraway. In: Donna Haraway: Reinventing Nature. Primates, cyborgs and women. Campus, Frankfurt am Main 1995, p. 98
  9. ^ Science, Technology and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s. In: Linda Nicholson (Ed.): Feminism, Postmodernism (Routledge, New York, pp. 190-233).
  10. ↑ Donna Haraway: When Species Meet , Minnesota 2007
  11. ↑ Donna Haraway: Dogs with Value and Living Capital. In: jour fixe initiative berlin (ed.): Ghost subject. Munster 2007.
  12. ↑ The Companion Species Manifesto
  13. ↑ Donna Haraway: Dogs with Value and Living Capital. In: Jour fixe initiative berlin (ed.): Ghost Subject. Münster 2007. p. 99
  14. ↑ A different view of people - literature & lectures . In: Badische Zeitung . ( badische-zeitung.de [accessed on August 10, 2018]).
  15. ↑ Donna Haraway: Story Telling for Earthly Survival. Accessed August 10, 2018 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Haraway, Donna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Haraway, Donna Jeanne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian of natural sciences, biologist and feminism theorist
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Denver