CFP: Science and Technology in the Middle East
4S/EASST 2016, Barcelona, Spain, August 31 – September 3, 2016
Discussant: Samer Alatout
Since the 1980s, a large body of work in Science and Technology studies has
debunked the Western sciences’ and scientists’ claims to universality and
neutrality by showing the imprint of culture and history in
techno-scientific knowledge production, design, and worldviews. Further,
although earlier work on non-Western contexts have tended to conceptualize
Western techno-science as a hegemonic machinery that is “imported” to other
contexts, recent scholarship challenges such assumptions by revealing the
“complex process of translation, appropriation and accommodation” (Bray
2007:440) involved in the making of both “Western” and “non-Western”
sciences (Abraham 2000; Anderson 2002; Barak 2013; Biermann 2001; Choy
2011; Harding 1993; Hayden 2003; Hecht 2002; Helmreich 2005; Lowe 2006).
This panel aims to provide a nuanced analysis of the power-laden ways in
which science and technology circulate and take shape in the Middle East –a
“non-Western” and “contentious” part of the world– and address an
underrepresented area of the STS literature. Aiming to do more than fill a
geographic gap, this panel aims to challenge assumptions about science and
technology themselves through insights from the Middle East. We ask:
· How are notions and scales such as the particular, local, regional,
global, and universal produced through techno-scientific practices?
· In what ways do political, social, and cultural constellations in
the Middle East recalibrate the frameworks in Science and Technology
Studies?
· What kinds of temporalities do techno-scientific practices,
epistemologies, and ontologies in the Middle East build upon?
We welcome abstract submissions on diverse themes in various contexts in
the Middle East, including (but not limited to):
· Biomedicine
· Illness and Disease
· Climate Change
· Resources and Energy
· “Natural” Disasters
· Water and maritime environments
· Expert and Indigenous Knowledge
· Finance and money
· Infrastructures
· War machines
· Multispecies interactions
· Materiality
· Bodies and race
Potential participants should send their abstracts (250 words max) to
Zeynep Oguz ([log in to unmask]) by Thursday, February 18, 2016.
Please include the title of the paper, author’s name, affiliation, and
email.
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