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**2nd CFP for Monitoring Circulation track at 4S/EASST in Barcelona,
Aug.-Sept. 2016. Please forward widely. Apologies for cross-posting.**


Confirmed speakers include Orit Halpern of *Beautiful Data: A History of
Vision and Reason Since 1945 *(Duke, 2014)



*Abstract Deadline*

Feb. 21, 2016

Submit abstracts online at: http://www.sts2016bcn.org/



*Monitoring Circulation*


4S/EASST Barcelona Aug. 31 – Sept. 3, 2016

Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) and European Association for the
Study of Science and Technology (EASST)



*Organizers*

Willem Schinkel

Jess Bier

Erasmus University Rotterdam


http://monitoringmodernity.eu/

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*Summary*

This track will analyze the politics of counting and visualizing in efforts
to monitor the global circulation of people, practices, and data. The goal
is to further examine the relationships between global circulation
infrastructure
and supranational efforts at regulation and surveillance.



*Abstract*

The papers in this track will analyze the politics of counting and
visualizing in the monitoring of the global circulation of people,
practices, and data. Researchers are increasingly examining the circulation of
technoscience and its spread into non-traditional domains like governance
and finance. However, the agents, targets, infrastructures, visions, and
techniques of governmentality also circulate beyond local borders. Thus it
is necessary to further examine the relationships between global
circulation infrastructure
and supranational efforts at regulation and surveillance.

How do visualization practices perform and produce international flows, and
vice versa? Which forms of social imagination are reinforced, and which
erased, through circulation infrastructure? How do histories of circulation and
stasis, including colonial legacies, help set the conditions of possibility
for the circulation of technoscience? How are auditing, evaluation, and big
data reshaping scientific practices? How do we studymonitoring and circulation,
and which methods fail to grasp them? Topics include:



--standardization and quality assurance in shaping the circulation of
science



--ways of distributing vision in the routinized work of the quantitative
assessments of populations



--surveillance technologies and the shaping of migrant and refugee flows



--auditing and evaluation in institutional governance, including
corporations and universities



--ways of rethinking methods, including ANT (Latour), spider (Ingold), and
notions of ‘multisitedness’



--quantification and erasure in the circulation of science across the
global South and North



--ways that infrastructures of circulation, including the internet, produce
stability and flow



--the role of international technical expertise in the evaluation and
valuation of knowledge