Research Summary: I am interested in more-than-human relationships, critical approaches to technology, and questions of territory. Theoretically, I draw upon the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari as well as the feminist new materialism of Karen Barad. In previous work, I have attended to the more-than-human dimensions of biodiversity conservation. My thesis will explore the entanglement of matter and meaning, and of nature, people, and technology, in the landscapes of quantum and nuclear technological development in the UK. There are five research questions associated with this research:
1 How can quantum social theory help to understand the relationships between quantum ecologies and technologies?
2 How can the relationships between quantum ecologies and technologies through time be assessed methodologically?
3 How are more-than-human relations changing with regard to quantum and nuclear technological advancement and associated ecologies?
4 How are techno-utopian discourses and nuclear and quantum technologies associated?
5 How can the relationships between quantum ecologies and technologies be mobilised to advance desirable futures with regard to quantum ecologies and science and technology?
