Welcome to Organizing REKO

  • 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…

  • Fieldwork in Valmiera with a baby

    The sun greets us when getting off the plane from Stockholm to Riga on this beautiful October morning in 2024. We are not the usual picture of researchers on a fieldtrip, equipped with backpacks, voice recorders, pen and paper. Instead, we are carrying a tired toddler, push a stroller and have lost the first pair…

  • The Buzz of a New REKO Ring: Vaksala Torg

    The Buzz of a New REKO Ring: Vaksala Torg

    Wednesday, August 28. Uppsala, Sweden. There is a new REKO ring in town. It is located in the middle of the city, at a large square near the central train station. Here in Uppsala, where I live, previous rings have all been located outside the city center, as they usually are. This ‘move’ makes it…