4s/EASTT Barcelona 2016
http://www.sts2016bcn.org
Open Track (Convenors: Fay Dennis & Emma Garnett)
Please consider submitting a paper to our track:
Non-conforming bodies: an exploration of public health knowledge, practice
and technologies beyond 'the body'
Short Abstract: This track invites presentations which explore
non-conforming bodies in public health knowledge, practice and
technologies. We are interested in opening up a dialogue on how bodies get
enacted beyond their boundaries and thereby confront normative imaginings
of 'the body'.
Long Abstract: This track explores bodies beyond their surface-boundaries,
as bodies which do not conform to our expectations in terms of how they
engage with technologies, classifications and/or health services. Rather
than starting out with 'the body', we engage with the relational
configurations - or collectives - which bodies compose and comprise. In
this way we cross different kinds of bodily scales (from the deviant body
to population bodies), reflecting specifically on the ways in which bodies
emerge and get problematised through the targeting of normative
understandings of 'health'. For example, drugged bodies fail to engage with
public health technologies, such as opiate substitution treatment, in the
intended way as a physically dependent body. In epidemiology, populations
as multiple bodies are difficult to distinguish and measure. By
foregrounding the articulation of different kinds of collectives relating
to health - from the drug-using-event to the emergence of particular
techno-social relations - we aim to explore the productive capacities of
thinking with non-conforming bodies, both as a way to tell us more about
'the body' and to re-think current interventions. For example, in
epidemiology, bodies and environments are conceptualised as distinct, yet
if the starting point was bodies-as-environments then articulating how one
intervenes is re-configured. Similarly, in harm reduction, considering
bodies as always in a state of 'becoming' refigures interventions towards
living better in the tensions. Non-conforming bodies are a way to examine
the contingent and practical engagements that make health possible, whilst
problematising public health attempts to assemble, hold together and
intervene with bodies.
If you have any questions regarding the panel, please feel free to contact
Emma ([log in to unmask]) or Fay ([log in to unmask]).
All abstracts should be submitted through the conference website:
http://www.sts2016bcn.org
DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS: 21st February 2016.
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