A research project on a Local food system in Finland, Sweden & Latvia

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  • A reflection on the unexpected intersection of social media, alternative food markets, and the complexities of algorithmic governance

    In 2010, I began researching the impact of social media on the boundary between work and personal life. This was six years after Facebook’s inception and six years before the introduction of Facebook Marketplace and the formalization of platform-based buying and selling. At the time, I couldn’t have foreseen the emergence of alternative food markets…

  • Unusual Organization in Unusual Places: Where is REKO?

    Unusual Organization in Unusual Places: Where is REKO?

    I have long had a fascination with places. When I arrive somewhere, I like to walk the streets, the forests paths, or visit a supermarket. These all tell me something, albeit I am not always sure of what. And when returning to places previously visited, like Kraków, or more familiar places like my family´s country house,…

  • Hope in REKO

    Research is never the work of a single woman. Rather, it should be understood, as Donna Haraway suggests, as ‘sympoiesis’ – a “making-with”: all things become together. In this blog post, I will reflect on a sympoietic theme that emerged at the convergence of my reading of parts of the empirical material generated by members…

  • ETHNOGRAPHERS GOING TO THE FIELD

    What happens when a group of social science researchers go to the field to collect research data? In this blog post, I will reflect upon our ethnographic data collection trip to explore the organization of REKO network in Latvia. Our two-day field trip took us to the city of Valmiera in October 2024. Just like…

  • A taste of Reko Valmiera – Reflections of the fieldwork in Latvia

    The first time I met the research team of the project Organizing Reko, was when I was invited to join the Reko fieldtrip to Latvia. I started as a researcher on the project in January, and since then my role has evolved from data collector to PhD candidate. The nine-month work within the project has…

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