ABSTRACT

This article employs the concept of risk to explore potential synergies and points of contact between gender studies and discard studies. In doing so, the focus is on the risk of leakage, such as pollution, toxic discharges, urine leakage and menstruation. Leakage is of interest to scholars, both within gender studies and discard studies as it concerns the (female) body as well as pollutants seeping into the environment. Applying the concept of risk, it is suggested that discard studies add to gender studies an understanding of the ways in which bodies and environment mutually enfold one another in and through leakages while it is also evident that these enfoldings are far from symbiotic and harmonious. In addition, discard studies’ focus on leakage as at once troublesome and mundane brings to the discussion an understanding of the risk of leakage as it is managed on a daily basis. From the perspective of gender studies, we learn that bodily leakages are commonly framed as an individual matter. Hence, gender studies’ contribution to discard studies lies in its ability to assign responsibility to humans for environmental leakages and spills, rather than viewing them as passive victims.

摘要

本文采用风险的概念来探索性别研究和丢弃物研究之间的潜在协同作用和联系点。这样做的重点是泄漏的风险，例如污染、有毒物质排放、尿液泄漏和月经。性别研究和丢弃研究中的学者都对泄漏感兴趣，因为它涉及（女性）身体以及渗入环境的污染物。应用风险的概念，建议丢弃研究增加性别研究，了解身体和环境在泄漏中和通过泄漏相互包裹的方式，同时很明显，这些包裹远非共生和和谐。此外，放弃研究对渗漏的关注，因为渗漏既麻烦又平凡，这使讨论能够理解渗漏的风险，因为它是日常管理的。从性别研究的角度来看，我们了解到身体泄漏通常被视为个人问题。因此，性别研究对丢弃物研究的贡献在于它能够将环境泄漏和溢出的责任归于人类，而不是将他们视为被动的受害者。