Call for Papers - Special Issue "When theory meets
practice.Entanglements of ageing and technology at the cross-roads of
STS and Age Studies"
TECNOSCIENZA: Italian Journal of Science & Technology Studies
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Call for Papers - When theory meets practice. Entanglements of
ageing and technology at the cross-roads of STS and Age Studies
Special Issue
"When theory meets practice. Entanglements of ageing and technology at
the cross-roads of STS and Age Studies"
*Guest editors:*
Michela Cozza (University of Mälardalen, Västerås, Sweden)
Britt Östlund (Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden)
Alexander Peine (Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherland)
*Call for papers*
In recent years, ageing and later life have started to be relevant
topics in STS (Cozza et al. 2017; Peine et al. 2015; Sánchez-Criado et
al. 2014; Urban 2017). While social and critical gerontologists have
long debunked biomedical models of ageing to show that ageing “is both a
bio-demographic reality and a social construction reacting back into
each other” (Katz 2014: 18), materiality and embodiments of ageing have
only received limited attention (Latimer and López Gomez 2019). Some
exceptions can be found in feminist technoscience (Joyce and Mamo 2006;
McNeil and Roberts 2012) with studies, for example, on vision and
visuality of technoscience enacting the ageing human body (Åsberg and
Lykke 2010) or works engaged with biomedicine and patient experience of
becoming older (Roberts 2006). Such attention on social and material
aspects of ageing points to where STS scholars have started to engage
with critical gerontologists and explore the co-constitution of ageing
and technology (Peine and Neven 2019). Such studies have critiqued, in
particular, the widespread assumptions among policy makers,
health-oriented researchers and other practitioners that ageing and
technologies are separable, and have instead explored the assemblages
and enactment through which they exist only in relation to each other
(Joyce et al. 2017; Wanka and Gallistl 2018).
The entanglement between ageing and technologies can be put into the
foreground by focusing on design. Design can be defined as “an
intervention in practice” (Shove 2014: 41) through which designers
configure materials, ideologies, and competences that affect the
everyday life. When thinking on the ageing population and the
unprecedented diffusion of technologies made with older people as the
target group, the relevance of design emerges straightforwardly (Cozza
et al. 2018). Some design researchers have urged to open the black box
of technologies of this kind and analyse the configuring of their social
and material components by applying STS theories (Cozza et al. 2019;
Frennert and Östlund 2014; Östlund et al. 2015). The critical potential
of STS may help to challenge assumptions on technology, ageing, and
later life and open up to alternative views.
For this special issue, we invite to zoom in on technological design,
implementation, and evaluation as relevant sites for the co-constitution
of ageing and technology. In particular, we explore the notion of
“theory”, and precisely how theories of ageing inform, clash, become
interfaced and reassembled at these sites. Building on Kurt Lewin’s
(1945) maxim that “there is nothing as practical as a good theory”, we
look for contributions that explore what happens when theories meet
practice (for instance, when theories of privacy by design need to be
cared for in practice, when theories of plug-and-play meet practices of
bricolage, when theories of aging configure processes of co-creation).
In short, we seek contributions that explore how theories of ageing and
older people are constituted in the practices of designing, implementing
and evaluating technologies. Such technologies may include, but are not
limited to, active and passive monitoring devices, robotics, smartphones
and/or tablets, smart home devices, medical technologies, and others.
This special issue of Tecnoscienza. The Italian Journal of Science &
Technology Studies invites papers that explore issues related (but not
limited) to the following themes:
* the constitution of ageing from a sociomaterial perspective
* the design processes from the point of view of scholars at the
cross-roads of STS and Age Studies
* the co-creation of technologies with and for older people
* the relationship between technology, ageing, and later life from the
point of view of
* feminist technoscience/gender studies
* the contribution of post-human theories to the analysis of
technologies for older people
* potentialities and limits of STS theories and/or “interventions” in
studying design
* practices having older people as target group
*Deadline for abstract submissions: December 10*^*th* *, 2019*
Abstracts (in English) with a maximum length of 500 words should be sent
as email attachments to [log in to unmask]
<mailto:[log in to unmask]>_ and copied to the guest editors.
Notification of acceptance will be communicated by mid-January, 2020.
Full papers (in English with a maximum length of 8,000 words including
notes and references) will be due on April 30th 2020 and will be subject
to a double blind peer review process.
For information and questions, please do not hesitate to contact the
guest editors:
*Michela Cozza, [log in to unmask]
Britt Östlund, [log in to unmask]
Alexander Peine, [log in to unmask]*
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Cozza, M., De Angeli, A. and Tonolli, L. (2017) Ubiquitous technologies
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