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If your work relates to food, innovation and respectively diverse publics, please consider submitting an abstract to the following panel as part of the EASST conference<https://easst2018.easst.net/> "Meetings: Making Science, Technology and Society Together"
Trouble swallowing? Food, technoscience and publics (A25)
Short abstract
This track explores how food mediates public engagement with sociotechnical issues, and in turn how public engagement shapes what food has come to be. We ask how policy agendas seek to 'democratize' food systems, while 'disruptive' innovations may spark new forms of public engagement.
Long abstract
Food - its nature, technologies, production systems and nutritional values - is once again receiving much political and public attention. Food innovations are promoted as solutions to global food problems while regularly sparking public controversies about the 'nature' of food. Longstanding issues - whether pesticide use, GMO regulation or fortified food - demonstrate that edible things are not only consumption objects but also mediate public engagement with technology and nature. Indeed, many inventive approaches to public participation have emerged in response to food controversies: from tasting trails to activism 'in the field' to dietary movements. Consumers' refusal to swallow technologically enhanced food is often interpreted as 'lack of trust' in science and regulation. Yet, STS research shows that consumer resistance is also a response to attempts to use food for governing populations, producing 'good citizens' or 'economizing' public relationships with nature. Food innovation is thus shaped by existing ideas of democracy, citizenship, and cultural belonging, and conversely provokes new knowledge ways, subjects and social orders.
This track invites explorations into how food mediates public engagement with social, technical and environmental issues, and how in turn public engagement shapes what food has come to be. We seek to interrogate how contemporary policy agendas, like responsible research and innovation or citizens as co-creators, contribute to ideas of further 'democratizing' food systems. Likewise, we inquire how 'disruptive' innovations, such as vertical farming or lab-grown meat, may spark new forms of public engagement with socio-technical challenges, e.g. with climate change or food security.
Convenors:
Mascha Gugganig (Technical University Munich)
Laurie Waller (Technische Universität München)
https://nomadit.co.uk/easst/easst2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/6276
Please send any questions and your proposed abstract (short and long) to [log in to unmask] by February 9th (as you might know the final EASST deadline is February 14th, see here for all instructions https://easst2018.easst.net/call-for-papers/
Feel free to distribute this call to folks and listserves you believe would be fitting.
All my very best,
Mascha
Mascha Gugganig, PhD
Postdoctoral Researcher
Research Group "Innovation, Society and Public Policy" (ISPP)
Munich Center for Technology in Society
Technical University Munich
Phone: ++49 89 289 29238
Augustenstr. 46, 80333 Munich
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