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4s/EASTT Barcelona 2016
http://www.sts2016bcn.org
Open Track (Convenors: Emma Garnett & Fay
Dennis)
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 Fay ([log in to unmask]) or Emma ([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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