Fredy Mora Gámez, MSc PhD
Biography
Fredy Mora Gámez is a senior postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Science and Technology Studies and a member of the research team Technosciences, Materiality, and Digital Culture. His research focuses on the intersections of social theory, STS, critical migration/border studies, and social movements scholarship. His work condenses three interconnected lines of inquiry: 1. how migration is enacted by (digital) information infrastructures. 2. everyday material practices by people on the move, and 3. the social life of methods.
Fredy has served as associate professor (docent) of technology and social change at the Department of Thematic Studies (TEMA G), Linköping University (Sweden). He was the principal investigator of the project `Calculating migration: a multi-sited ethnography of algorithmic governance and redistribution keys´ (2021-2025, Riksbankens Jubileumfond, P20-0618), a collaboration between Linköping University and the European New School of Digital Societies (Frankfurt).
Before joining the Department, Fredy was a postdoctoral researcher at TEMA T (Technology and Social Change) in Linköping University (Sweden). He also worked as a postdoctoral Research Associate on the project `Mending the new: A Framework for Reconciliation Through Testimonial Digital Textiles in Post-Conflict Rural Colombia´ at the University of Nottingham (UK).
During his doctoral research (University of Leicester, UK) Fredy examined the technological deployment of rights restitution and reparation policies in post-conflict Colombia, and traced alternative forms of repair developed by rural communities and people on the move. Later, as part of his previous postdoctoral appointments, Fredy engaged with social movements in Colombia and Greece formed around collective practices of making and crafting.
Drawing on STS, decolonial feminism scholarship, ethnography, and digital methods, Fredy’s current project pays attention to material practices like repurposing, upcycling, sewing, and knitting. Focusing on Southern Europe and South America as research sites, he is interested in gaining a better understanding of the cruciality of crafting in the journeys of people on the move across and beyond borders.
Fredy is a member of the International Science and Technology Studies Research Network on Migration, Border Control Technologies and Infrastructures (STS Mig-Tech). He is member of the Management Commitee and representative of Austria in the COST Action DATAMIG (CA 22135). He is also a member of the Grupo de Estudios Sociales de la Ciencia, la Tecnología y la Medicina (GESCTM) at Universidad Nacional de Colombia.
Current Research Interests
- Critical studies of population management infrastructures, bureaucracy, and digital borders
- Infrastructures of care and social movements
- Handcrafting as technoscience
- Decoloniality and/in STS
- Posthuman understandings of memory, affect, solidarity and reparation
- Ethnography and storytelling
- Multimodality, making-doing knowledge, and creative writing