Dr Mariam Motamedi Fraser

Sociology

Senior Lecturer | BA PhD

m.fraser (@gold.ac.uk)

Research Interests

Words; facts and fictions; storying; archives; experience; methods; sociology, science and literature;

Selected Publications

Books

(2006) Fraser, M., Kember, S. and Lury, C. (eds) Inventive Life: Approaches to the New Vitalism. London: Sage.

(2004) Identity without Selfhood: Simone de Beauvoir and Bisexuality . Translated into Chinese. Zhonghua Book Company. (Originally published in English, 1999, Cambridge University Press).

(2004) The Body: A Reader. Co-edited and introduced with Monica Greco. London and New York: Routledge.

Journal special issues

(2008) Intimacy in Research. Special issue co-edited and introduced with Nirmal Puwar. History of Human Sciences 21(3).

(2005) Inventive Life: Approaches Towards a New Vitalism. Special issue co-edited and introduced with Sarah Kember and Celia Lury. Theory Culture and Society 22(1): 1-194. 

Journal articles

(2011) in press. Once Upon a Problem. Sociological Review.

 (2009). Standards, Populations, and Difference. Cultural Critique, 71, pp. 47-80.

(2009). Experiencing Sociology. European Journal of Social Theory, 12(1), pp. 63-81.

(2008). Introduction: Intimacy in Research. (with Nirmal Puwar) History of the Human Sciences, 21(4), pp. 1-16.

(2006). The ethics of reality and virtual reality: Latour, facts and values. History of the Human Sciences, 19(2), pp. 45-72.

(2006). Event. Theory, Culture & Society, 23(2-3), pp. 129-132.

(2005) Making music matter. Sole-author contribution to special issue on Inventive Life, Theory, Culture and Society 22(1): 173-189.

(2003) Material theory: Duration and Serotonin Hypothesis of Depression. Theory, Culture and Society 20(5): 1-26.

(2002) What is the matter of feminist criticism? Economy and Society31(4): 606-625.

Chapters in books

(2010). Facts, Ethics and Event. In: Casper Bruun Jensen and Kjetil Roedje, eds. Deleuzian Intersections: Science, Technology and Anthropology. Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books, pp. 52-82.

(2000) Pathological Normality, in C. Campbell (ed.) Front. England: Calvert's Press. pp. 39-74. ISBN Pbk 095390430X

Other activities

2005-2008 A work-in-process. Initiated by myself; co-organised with Andrea Phillips (Curating). The project brought together staff and students in the Estates, Curating and Sociology Departments. Students chose artist-architect Marjetica Potrc to be invited to design a structure that embodied the intellectual profile of the Centre for the Study of Invention and Social Process. For details of this project, please see A Work in Process [pdf]