Dear all,
We would like to invite abstract submissions for our panel at the upcoming EASST + 4S conference in Prague, 18-21 August 2020.
Convenors: Noémi Tousignant (University College London), Wenzel Geissler (University of Oslo), Miriam Waltz (Aarhus University)
Mutagenic Legacies and Future Living
Modernist projects - e.g., ‘green revolutions’, disease eradication campaigns or power generation - have been rearranging molecular relations in the name of “better living,” as a chemical firm famously advertised. Lives improved by technology are and were imagined as a source of private comfort, security and profit. But abundant food, cheap energy, lucrative resources and controlled pathogens have also been hinged to societal ambitions for collective prosperity and protection.
Molecular rearrangements are mutagenic in a broad sense: vast volumes of substances have been synthesized or released by sociotechnical interventions, accumulating in bodies and environments, where they might alter genetic processes, foster cancerous cell proliferation or resistant microbes, and engender broader ecological reordering and novel interspecies relations. Yet past modernist projects can also be politically mutating and mutagenic. They exert durably transformative effects on and across changes in the values of life and the conditions of living, for variously positioned humans as well as nonhumans (defined as food, parasites, wildlife, etc.).
This panel invites participants to examine modernist legacies through the lens of their biological and social mutagenicity. We welcome contributions that attend to past futures of better living, as imagined and embedded in modernist projects, and seek to discern their enduring presence, mutations and mutagenic effects in current possibilities for future living. We seek in particular to reflect on how mutagenic effects are exerted across changes in political regime and ideology (post-colonial, post-socialist, post-welfare, post-developmental) and the unequal relations of production and consumption they foster and seek to moderate.
The deadline for abstract submissions is 29 February 2020.
For more information about the conference, please see https://www.easst4s2020prague.org/
Abstracts can be submitted via https://convention2.allacademic.com/one/ssss/prague20/ (open panel no. 115)
If you have any questions or would like to discuss proposal ideas, please contact us:
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We look forward to hearing from you!
With best wishes,
Miriam Waltz
PhD Fellow – ANTHUSIA
Department of Anthropology
School of Culture and Society
Aarhus University
Moesgaard Allé 20
DK-8270 Højbjerg
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