Lecturer in Management and Organisation

Contact Details

• Tel: +44 (0) 116 252 3950
• Email: mpdlb1@le.ac.uk
• Office: Room 611, Level 6, Ken Edwards Building
• Office Hours: By appointment

Biography

I joined the school in 2010 after two years at the School of Social Sciences and the School of City and Regional Planning in Cardiff University. Before that I was a Marie Curie Fellow at the Department of History of Consciousness and Center for Culture Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. I am an elected Council Member of the Society for Social Studies of Science and an associate member of the Group of Constructivist Studies of the Free University of Brussels. Both my first degree and PhD are in Philosophy. I also hold an MPhil in Social and Political Sciences (all from the Free University of Brussels) and have Masters level training in Women and Gender Studies from Utrecht University.

Research Interests

I am interested in how questions of ethics, politics and justice affect and are affected by the organisation of scientific practices and the cultural imaginaries of technoscience. My other main broad research interest is the production of alternative forms of knowing and organising in social movements – such as everyday practices of care in ecological movements. I have conducted extensive research on the politics of knowledge construction and epistemological justification in the context of scientific practice and technological development. My earlier work and publications are on feminist epistemologies, constructivist and process philosophies, as well as the institutional transformations of knowledge production in the ‘knowledge economy’, all topics in which I have an ongoing interest.

PhD Supervisor

Ethics and politics in science and technology; Alternative forms of organising - particularly ecological social movements; Ethics in organisations; Knowledge economy; Technoscientific imaginaries; Critical approaches to managing information; Feminist and gender theory.

Teaching

MBA/MSc MN7205: Business Ethics in a Global Context
MBA/MSc MN7019: Managing Information: Technology and System

Administrative Responsibilities

Deputy Programme Director BA Management Studies Year Two
Erasmus and Study Abroad Coordinator

Most Recent Publications

Books
Puig de la Bellacasa, Maria (2011), Think we must. Féminisme, savoir et politique, Harmattan, Paris (in french).

Articles and Book chapters
Puig de la Bellacasa, Maria (2011). Matters of Care in Technoscience. Assembling Neglected Things, Social Studies of Science, 41(1).

Puig de la Bellacasa, Maria (2010). Ethical Doings in naturecultures. Ethics, Place and Environment. A journal of philosophy and geography, 13 (2):151-169.

Puig de la Bellacasa, Maria (2009). Touching technologies, touching visions, Subjectivity, 28, 1: 297-315. 

Puig de la Bellacasa, Maria & Joanna Latimer (2011). Re-thinking the ethical in bioscience: everyday care in a laboratory of anti-ageing science, In. Priaulx, Nicky (ed.)Re-theorising the Ethical, Ethics, Law and Society Series, Ashgate, London.

Puig de la Bellacasa, Maria & Bracke, Sarah (2009). The Arena of Knowledge: Antigone and Feminist Standpoint Thinking. In: Doing gender in media, art and culture, Buikema, Rosemarie & Iris van der Tuin (eds.) Routledge, London.

Edited Volumes
Puig de la Bellacasa, Maria & Bauchspies, Wenda (2009) (Eds.). Re-tooling technologies: exploring the possible through feminist science studies, Special issue, Subjectivity 28.

Full listing of publications

Books
Puig de la Bellacasa, Maria (in preparation). Matters of care. The material remaking of eco-ethical relations in technoscience.

Puig de la Bellacasa, Maria (2011). Think we must. Féminisme, savoir et politique, Harmattan, Paris.

Edited Books, Special Issues and Reports
Puig de la Bellacasa, Maria & Rassel, Laurence (eds.) (2006). Stitch and split. Bodies and territories in science fiction, Fundación Tapiés, Barcelona.

Puig de la Bellacasa, Maria, Moriau, Jacques & Godard Michel (eds.) (2005). Knowledge and capital. II: Against intellectual property? Cahiers Marxistes n° 232, September.

Puig de la Bellacasa, Maria, Moriau, Jacques & Godard Michel (eds.) (2005). Knowledge and capital, I: The University, Cahiers Marxistes n° 230, May-June.

Puig de la Bellacasa, Maria, Haarscher Guy & Allard Julie, (eds.) (2001). The university in question. Knowledge market, new agora, ivory tower? Editions Labor, Brussels, (in French).

Puig de la Bellacasa, Maria, Lykke Nina & Michel Christine (eds.) (2001). Women’s studies – from institutional innovations to new job qualifications. ATHENA report, University of Southern Denmark, Copenhagen.

Journal articles
Puig de la Bellacasa, Maria (forthcoming). Nothing comes without its world. Knowledge that cares, Sociological Review.

Puig de la Bellacasa, Maria (2011). Matters of Care in Technoscience. Assembling Neglected Things, Social Studies of Science, 41(1).

Puig de la Bellacasa, Maria (2010). Ethical Doings in naturecultures. Ethics, Place and Environment. A journal of philosophy and geography, 13 (2):151-169.

Puig de la Bellacasa, Maria (2009). Touching technologies, touching visions, Subjectivity, 28, 1: 297-315.

Puig de la Bellacasa, Maria (2004). Positioning within feminisms. Comments on Cathrine Egeland’s What’s feminist in feminist theory? European Journal of Women’s Studies, 11 (2).

Puig de la Bellacasa, Maria (2003). Divergences in solidarity. Feminist politics of situated knowledges. Multitudes, 12, 2003 (in French).

Puig de la Bellacasa, Maria (2003). Science and politics today. Nouvelles Questions Féministes, 22 (1), (in French).

Puig de la Bellacasa, Maria (1999). Standards and becomings. Approaching contemporary feminist knowledge with Deleuze and Guattari’s philosophy, in SOPHIA Bulletin, 17, March (in French).

Puig de la Bellacasa, Maria (1998). Feminism: A thinking machine, in Chronique Féministe, 65, July-August  (in French).

Book chapters
Puig de la Bellacasa, Maria & Joanna Latimer (2011). Re-thinking the ethical in bioscience: everyday care in a laboratory of anti-ageing science, In. Priaulx, Nicky (ed.)Re-theorising the Ethical, Ethics, Law and Society Series, Ashgate, London.

Puig de la Bellacasa, Maria & Bracke, Sarah (2009). The Arena of Knowledge: Antigone and Feminist Standpoint Thinking. In: Doing gender in media, art and culture, Buikema, Rosemarie & Iris van der Tuin (eds.) Routledge, London.

Puig de la Bellacasa, Maria (2005). The bodies of our practices: Feminist politics and (re)constructions of nature. In: Le corps, entre sexe et genre, Rouch Helène, Elsa Dorlin & Dominique Fougeyrollas-Schewebel (eds.), L’Harmattan, Paris, (in French).

Puig de la Bellacasa, Maria (2004). (Re)constructing Knowledge. In: Le siècle des féminismes, Gubin Éliane et al. (eds.), Editions de l’Atelier, Paris (in French).

Puig de la Bellacasa, Maria & Bracke Sarah (2004). Building Standpoints. In: The Standpoint Theory Reader, Harding, Sandra (ed.), Routledge, New York/London.

Puig de la Bellacasa, Maria & Bracke Sarah (2002). Feminist studies and equal opportunity policies. In: Études féministes en Belgique, 1997-2000, SOPHIA Bulletin, Brussels, (in French).

Puig de la Bellacasa, Maria, Lykke, Nina & Michel Christine (2001). Women’s Studies: From institutional innovations to new job qualifications. In: The Making of European Women’s Studies, vol. 3, Braidotti Rosi, Ilse Lazaroms, Esther Vonk (eds.), Utrecht University– ATHENA, Utrecht.

Puig de la Bellacasa, Maria (2002). Flexible girls: A position paper on feminist genderational politics. In: Gender Studies in Europe, Passerini L. et Lyon D. (eds.), European Institute, Florence.

Puig de la Bellacasa, Maria (2001). Knowledge and/or politics? The case of feminist studies. In: The University in Questions Haarscher, Guy, Allard, Julie & Puig de la Bellacasa, Maria (eds.), Editions Labor, Brussels, (in French).

Puig de la Bellacasa, Maria, & Allard, Julie (2001). Why Academic Freedom? In: L’université en questions; Haarscher, Guy, Allard, Julie & Puig de la Bellacasa, Maria (eds.), Labor Editions, Brussels (in French).

Puig de la Bellacasa, Maria (2000). The sex/gender distinction in French speaking contexts. In: The Making of European Women’s Studies vol. II, Braidotti, Rosi, Vonk, Esther & van Wichelen, Sonya (eds.), Utrecht University – ATHENA, Utrecht,

Contributions to reports
Puig de la Bellacasa, Maria (2007). Emergent epistemologies. In: Genomics and Justice Conference Report, Science and justice working group, University of California, Santa Cruz, May.

Puig de la Bellacasa, Maria (2002). Contributor to report on gender impact assessment studies. In: Gender and Research conference proceedings. Women and Science Unit, Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, Luxemburg.

Puig de la Bellacasa, Maria (2001). Beyond nostalgia and celebration. New contexts for academic Women’s studies in European universities. In: Women’s Studies – from institutional innovations to new job qualifications. ATHENA, Lykke, Nina, Michel, Christine & Puig de la Bellacasa, Maria (eds.), University of Southern Denmark, Copenhagen.

Book Reviews
Puig de la Bellacasa, Maria (2009). Review of Life as Surplus. Biotechnology, Capitalism in the Neoliberal Era, Biosocieties, September.

Puig de la Bellacasa, Maria (2000). The doxa of difference, in SOPHIA Bulletin 21-22, March-May, (in French).

Publications in Translation
Puig de la Bellacasa, Maria & Bracke, Sarah (2007). The Arena of Knowledge: Antigone and Feminist Standpoint Thinking. In: Genderstudies en de Cultuurwetenshappen, eds. Buikema, Rosemarie & Iris van der Tuin (eds.), Coutihno, Amsterdam, (Dutch).

Puig de la Bellacasa, Maria & Bracke, Sarah (2002). Who’s afraid of standpoint feminism? Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies, 2, Amsterdam (Dutch).

Puig de la Bellacasa & Rassel, Laurence Maria (2006). Suturas y Fragmentos. Cuerpos y Territorios en la Ciencia Ficción. In: Suturas y Fragmentos, Fundació Tapiés, Barcelona, (Spanish).

Puig de la Bellacasa, Maria & Bracke, Sarah (2002). Vrouwenstudies en het gelijkekansenbeleid. Welke verhoudingen? In: Vrouwenstudies in België, 1997-2000, Brussels, SOPHIA (Flemish).

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