Call for papers: Meetings of local knowledges: conflicts, complements, and reconfigurations:
EASST 2018, 25-28th July 2018, Lancaster University, UK
Conveners: Andy Yuille (Lancaster University), Linda Russell (Universidad Autonoma de Campeche), Nicole Klenk (University of Toronto)
Deadline for submissions: February 14th 2018. Submit abstracts and contact the conveners at https://nomadit.co.uk/easst/easst2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/6185.
We would like to invite you to submit proposals for papers to our panel at EASST 2018, “Meetings of local knowledges: conflicts, complements, and reconfigurations”:
STS has long been interested in the situatedness of all knowledge and the consequences this has for ways of being in the world, and has produced insightful studies of situations where different ways of knowing collide or slide past each other (e.g. Wynne, 1996; Verran, 1998). Today, in the face of challenges such as climate change, environmental degradation and social justice, traditional and other local knowledges are being revalued - but how, by whom, and with what effects? International trends towards participation and co-production, the 'turn' that was first lauded for bringing different actors and knowledges together in newly productive relations, then lambasted as a neoliberal project of co-option and colonisation, show no signs of abating. Rather than rehearse the well-established arguments about the 'dark side' of these trends, we seek "more nuanced analyses of the conflicting rationalities … and the dynamics and contradictions often found at the micro-level" (Brownill & Parker, 2010). And we recognise that this applies as much to the knowledges that we produce as the knowledges we research (Yeh, 2016).
This panel invites contributions that investigate the processes of mobilization, translation and application that are implied in enabling different knowledges to meet and have effect in specific contexts. Ranging from Indigenous people reinterpreting the knowledge of their elders to solve contemporary problems, to local knowledges within Western cultures that are tied to particular places and trajectories, we focus on the interfaces where knowledges and worlds come together and how this encounter can become more productive.
References:
BROWNILL, S. & PARKER, G. 2010. Why Bother with Good Works? The Relevance of Public Participation(s) in Planning in a Post-collaborative Era. Planning Practice & Research, 25, 275-282.
VERRAN, H. 1998. Re- imagining land ownership in Australia. Postcolonial Studies, 1, 237-254.
WYNNE, B. 1996. May the sheep safely graze? A reflexive view of the expert-lay knowledge divide. In: SZERSZYNSKI, B., LASH, S. & WYNNE, B. (eds.) Risk, environment and modernity: towards a new ecology. London: Sage.
YEH, E. 2016. ‘How can experience of local residents be “knowledge”?’ Challenges in interdisciplinary climate change research Area, 48, 34-40.
More details about the conference can be found at: https://easst2018.easst.net/. We look forward to your contributions!
Andy, Linda & Nicole
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