Myra J. Hird

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Myra J. Hird is a Canadian sociologist .

She is a professor at the School of Environmental Studies at Queen's University in Ontario, Canada, and director of the genera Research Group (gRG), founder of Canada's Waste Flow research group and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada .

Hird works within the disciplines of Science Studies and Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies. Her research and teaching interests span the areas of science studies (including philosophy of science , sociology of science , and epistemology ), health science , transdisciplinarity , sexual difference, sexuality (including transsexuality , intersexuality ), ethics and social justice, feminist science criticism, and queer theory .

Life

Myra holds bachelor's degrees from the University of Western Ontario and the University of Windsor and a master's degree from McGill University . She completed her doctorate at Oxford University .

research

waste

Hird's current research focuses on waste as a technological-scientific and socio- ethical topic. She studies different types of waste and their quality (municipal waste, industrial waste, biohazardous waste, food waste and agricultural waste, nuclear waste, clothing, electronics, mining, military, etc.) as well as various waste management practices (landfill, incineration, biological remediation, Repository etc.). Her research focuses on the different ways in which waste is understood and how waste is governed politically, economically and socially. For example, defining a placenta as "biohazardous waste" enables it to be collected for scientific research and examined in the laboratory. Regarding waste as an epistemological and material phenomenon also raises current questions about the possibilities of a non-human epistemology , which Hird sees particularly in a feminist context.

Hird takes a critical look at the complex interplay of material and social processes that define our relationship to the environment . A special focus of her work is on how environmental problems emerge as concerns, are defined by different interest groups and which solutions are developed in political, economic, cultural and technoscientific discourses . Hird sees waste as a global environmental problem that brings together socio-cultural and biogeological processes in complex relationships. Landfill leachate, colonialism , the disinterested public, global corporate investments, food production, land claims, neoliberal governance , permafrost and a multitude of other socio-material aspects come together in this discourse. Hird is looking for a way in which the social sciences and humanities can deal with scientific knowledge so that global issues such as climate change , human-animal relationships and the future of waste become an interdisciplinary matter.

symbiosis

In the context of her research on symbiotic microbacteria, Hird explores how sociologists could use the theory of co-evolution to study the complex interactions between matter , culture, and society . By looking at bacterial symbiosis , says Hird, the idea of ​​autonomous individual organisms can be questioned. This change of perspective also calls into question the prominent role of humans in biosphere regulation and the distinction between nature and culture.

Awards

In 2013, Hird received a visiting professorship from the Leverhulme Trust.

In 2015 she was awarded the Queen's University Prize for Excellence in Research.

Fonts (selection)

  • Hird, MJ: Canada's Waste Flow . McGill-Queen's University Press. McGill-Queen's University Press (forthcoming).
  • Hird, MJ: Sociology of Science: A Critical Canadian Introduction . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. ISBN 0-19-542989-3 .
  • Hird, MJ: The Origins of Sociable Life: Evolution After Science Studies. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Press, 2009. ISBN 978-0-230-20213-9 .
  • Hird, MJ: Sex, Gender and Science . Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Press, 2004. ISBN 1-4039-2176-8 .
  • Hird, MJ: Engendering Violence: From Childhood to Adulthood . Aldershot: Ashgate Press, 2002. ISBN 0-7546-0916-2 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Myra Hird. Canada's Waste Flow. Queen's University, 2013, accessed July 24, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b BIOGRAPHY | Myra Hird. Retrieved July 23, 2019 .
  3. ↑ about. Retrieved July 23, 2019 .
  4. ^ Myra J. Hird: Knowing Waste: Towards an Inhuman Epistemology . In: Social Epistemology . tape 26 , no. 3-4 , October 1, 2012, ISSN  0269-1728 , p. 453-469 , doi : 10.1080 / 02691728.2012.727195 .
  5. ^ Myra J. Hird: Knowing Waste: Towards an Inhuman Epistemology . In: Social Epistemology . tape 26 , no. 3-4 , 2012, pp. 453-469 , doi : 10.1080 / 02691728.2012.727195 ( philpapers.org [accessed July 23, 2019]).
  6. ↑ Myra J Hird: Waste, Environmental Politics and Dis / Engaged Publics . In: Theory, Culture & Society . tape 34 , no. 2-3 , May 1, 2017, ISSN  0263-2764 , p. 187-209 , doi : 10.1177 / 0263276414565717 .
  7. ^ Nine professors named Royal Society Fellows. September 9, 2014, accessed July 23, 2019 .
  8. ^ Myra J. Hird: Coevolution, Symbiosis and Sociology . In: Ecological Economics (=  Special Section: Coevolutionary Ecological Economics: Theory and Applications ). tape 69 , no. 4 , February 15, 2010, ISSN  0921-8009 , p. 737-742 , doi : 10.1016 / j.ecolecon.2008.10.011 ( sciencedirect.com [accessed July 23, 2019]).
  9. ↑ Myra Hird earns prestigious visiting professorship. May 27, 2013, accessed on July 23, 2019 .
  10. ^ Myra Hird - Excellence in Research | School of Environmental Studies. Retrieved July 23, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Hird, Myra J.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century