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CALL FOR PAPERS
Revisiting bio-objects and bio-objectification: Categories, materialities
and processes central to the (re)configuration of "life".
4S/EASST 2016 Conference: Science and Technology by other Means.
Barcelona International Convention Centre,
August 31st- September 3rd 2016.
We invite abstracts of papers relating to work on bio-objects and the
bio-objectification process that builds on and extends work that has been
developed in this area over the past 10 years. *We are planning as well a
joint Panel with a separate Track on 'Bio-subjects'* that has been convened
by Prof Joanna Latimer, which will make for a fruitful debate.
Summary of the Track:
Bio-objects, bio-identification, and bio-objectification are a set of
conceptual tools that have been developed over the past 10 years to help
make sense of the re-configuration of life, the life-sciences and health
technologies. These tools help us to make sense of the processes through
which conventional boundaries and dichotomies surrounding life, the
life-sciences and health technologies are challenged, resisted and/or
redrawn. By tracing these processes through diverse laboratories, clinics,
bio-economies, and digital realms we are not only able to come to a better
understanding of how these novel materialities emerge and operate (i.e.
bio-objects), but also of the relationships that are generated alongside
them and the practices that seek to govern them. The bio-objects concept
hints at the objects' material and socially ordered form; it is distinct
from being a mere 'thing' without internal (material) or social
(exterior/embedded) order. These two modes of ordering are always
relational processes that can be traced in/to empirical situations. We
therefore invite both empirical papers investigating processes of
bio-objectification and bio-objectification, and theoretical papers seeking
to revisit this conceptual toolkit. These papers could include -but are not
limited to- the following areas:
-Crafting bio-objects within digital realms
-Bio-objects and generative relations
-Bio-objectification and biobanking
-Bio-objectification and bio-identification: papers on managing the unruly,
mainstreaming the alternative
-Alternative bio-economies: critical perspectives on a dominant discourse
-Failed bio-objects and resistance to bio-objectification: revisiting
(past) imaginations of bio-futures or failed attempt to work the identity
of bio-objects in particular directions.
-Historization of the bio-object conceptual tool kit
Submission Guidelines: Please submit abstracts at the following link:
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/easst/easst_4s2016/paperproposal.php5?PanelID=3917
Conference homepage: http://www.sts2016bcn.org/
Track organisers: Andrew Webster (University of York)
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Aaro Tupasela (University of Copenhagen): [log in to unmask]
Bettina Bock von Wülfingen (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
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Ingrid Metzler (Vienna University): [log in to unmask]
Please contact any of the conveners if you have any questions about
abstracts for this Track.
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Professor Andrew Webster
Director SATSU
Department of Sociology
University of York
Heslington
York YO10 5DD
UK
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Project Website: http://www.york.ac.uk/satsu/regenablemed/
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SATSU Website: www.york.ac.uk/satsu
Phone: *+44 1904 324740*
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Professor Andrew Webster
Director SATSU
Department of Sociology
University of York
Heslington
York YO10 5DD
UK
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Project Website: http://www.york.ac.uk/satsu/regenablemed/
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SATSU Website: www.york.ac.uk/satsu
Phone: *+44 1904 324740*
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