Dear Colleagues,
Just a quick final reminder and apologies for cross-posting! Please consider submitting a paper proposal for
track T074 ‘Cosmopolitical Research and STS' at the EASST / 4S Conference in Barcelona this summer. The deadline for the abstract is 21 February
Call for Abstracts
Deadline 21 February 2016
Submission to:
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/easst/easst_4s2016/panels.php5?PanelID=3986
Cosmopolitical Research and STS
EASST Conference at Barcelona
31. August-03. September 2016
Organized by Michael Schillmeier
University of Exeter, UK
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This call for papers invites contributions to a cosmopolitical research agenda in STS that draws attention to the questionability of the normal in social relations and how social normalcy is disrupted, questioned and altered by unforeseeable events, unexpected practices and uncommon actors and actor-coalitions.
The track will focus on empirical and conceptual work that address how STS can contribute to novel understandings and engagement with the non-normal, the un-common and unexpected which challenge and put at risk the conduct of everyday life practices and institutionalized orderings.
Central questions include
• How can STS contribute to caring practices for which no common solutions are available?
• Which role do non-humans, artifacts, design and technologies gain in cosmopolitical research?
• How can we imagine new coalitions between researcher and researched?
• How can a cosmopolitical perspective contribute to ‘slow science’?
• How can a cosmopolitical perspective disrupt the premises of human exceptionalism in STS?
• How can we think of cosmopolitical research as a mode of political engagement and experimentation, resistance and disruption of ‘social normalcy’?
• What are the novel spaces of cosmopolitics and how do they become visible?
Possible areas of research may include
• Media Studies
• Urban Studies
• Disability Studies
• Health and Illness
• Art, Literature and Design
• Environmental Studies
• Disaster Studies
• Risk Studies
• Issue/Publics Studies
• Speculative Anthropology, Sociology, Philosophy etc….
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Professor Michael Schillmeier
Department of Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology
Centre for the Studies of Life Sciences
Byrne House
University of Exeter
Exeter EX4 4PJ
FON ++44 (0)1392 725125
Call for Papers
Cosmopolitical Research and STS<http://www.nomadit.co.uk/easst/easst_4s2016/panels.php5?PanelID=3986>
EASST/4S Barcelona 2016
Last Book
Eventful Bodies - The Cosmopolitics of Illness (Ashgate)
Open Access
Caring about Social Complexity in Nanomedicine<http://www.futuremedicine.com/doi/pdf/10.2217/nnm.15.149>
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