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Dear all,
We invite paper proposals for our panel *(A15) ‘**Intimate entanglements in
Science and Technology**’* at this year’s EASST conference, to be held in
Lancaster from 25-28 July 2018.
*Convenors:*
- Daniel Lopez Gomez <[log in to unmask]> (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya)
- Joanna Latimer <[log in to unmask]>(University of York)
*Short abstract*
This panel aims to open up the value of intimacy as a quality of
socio-material relations in knowledge-making and communities of practice.
The focus is on the attachments and detachments that appear crucial to
understanding affective relations and ecologies inside and beyond science
and technology.
*Long abstract*
This panel aims to open-up the value of intimacy as a quality of
socio-material relations in knowledge-making and communities of practice.
Where intimacy has been mentioned it is usually in the context of
distinguishing local and experiential knowledge from universal and
scientific knowledge. In contrast, as Raffles (2003) points out, intimacy
can be foregrounded as a site for the social production of knowledge across
the social, human and life sciences, to help rework human/nature and
socio/technical boundaries.
The aim of the panel is thus to foreground what is so often made invisible
in extant accounts of how knowledge is done. The focus is on the
attachments and detachments that appear crucial to understanding
affective relations
and ecologies inside and beyond the sciences, including the social
sciences. This entails pressing how the 'affective turn' in Science &
Technology Studies does more than represent a 'turn to ontology'.
We welcome contributions that explore how the foregrounding of affect
restructures possibilities for 'situated knowledge' and non-anthropocentric
('posthuman') modes of relatedness in a wide range of substantive domains
and communities of practice - from laboratories, metric and digital worlds,
care and disability, *human-non human relationalities* with animals and
objects. In so doing, we want to address different aspects of how and when
intimacy becomes a quality of entanglements. Issues addressed include the
politics of intimacy and its different characterizations: as ordinary and
dangerous, a site of alterity and "contamination" but also of attachment,
belonging and companionship.
The call for papers closes at midnight CET on *February 14th, 2018*.
*Paper proposals can be submitted here:*
https://nomadit.co.uk/easst/easst2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/6228
Paper proposals must consist of:
- a paper title
- the name/s and email address/es of author/s
- a short abstract of fewer than 300 characters
- a long abstract of fewer than 250 words
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*The Biosocial Genome?
<http://embor.embopress.org/content/early/2017/09/20/embr.201744953>*
*Threshold <https://thresholdyork.wordpress.com/>*
Joanna Latimer, Professor of Sociology, Science & Technology
Director of Teaching & Director of SATSU <https://www.york.ac.uk/satsu/>,
Room W/232, Department of Sociology, Wentworth College, University of York
Heslington, York, YO10 5DD
01904 324 735
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