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[ecrea] Call for Papers on Infrastructures, subjects, politics: EASST/4S Conference Barcelona, 2016

Tue Dec 29 22:05:49 GMT 2015



CALL FOR PAPERS

Infrastructures, subjects, politics

4S/EASST 2016 Conference: Science and Technology by other Means. Barcelona International Convention Centre, August 31st-September 3rd 2016.

We invite abstracts of papers relating to work on the study of entanglements of sociotechnical infrastructures - such as transport systems, digital platforms, policing systems, border machineries and so on - with so-called human subjects in infrastructural politics.

Summary of the track:
Several strands of research within STS have theoretically and empirically dealt with the ways in which infrastructures often embody controversies, politics, and the constituting/excluding of subjects. One fascinating dimension concerns how (im-)material infrastructures are intertwined with human activity, are imbued with personal narratives, and perform social identities, often in relation to issues of belonging, citizenship and power. This session aims to explore the relevance of STS for the study of entanglements of sociotechnical infrastructures - such as transport systems, digital platforms, policing systems, border machineries and so on - with so-called human subjects in infrastructural politics. We invite papers that critically explore various forms of technopolitical order and/or (digital) resistance to these orders, the enacting of devalued subject positions (i.e. refugees, political activists) in the various sociotechnical assemblages in which they come to be integrated, as well as new spaces of political expression (i.e. social media; temporary autonomous zones) to these practices. We are particularly interested in papers that focus on how conceptualizing sociotechnical assemblages as matters of power and politics reveals the ways in which certain actors/actants/actions are devalued, invisible, or neglected, as well as how various groups (i.e. social movements, ad hoc groups) act to create alternative ontologies, practices and resistance against sociotechnical norms.

-Border practices and quantification of the body
-Social media and the digitalization of protest
-Biometrics at the border
-Infrastructures as means of social resistance
-From material to cyber to cyber/material
-Transport infrastructures as politics by other means
-The entanglement of digital means with physical infrastructures to perform urban autonomous zones

Submission Guidelines: Please submit abstracts at the following link:
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CONTACT. General conference e-mail address: (general /at/ sts2016bcn.org) For program-related issues please contact to: (program /at/ sts2016bcn.org) For registration and payment ...

Conference homepage: http://www.sts2016bcn.org/

Track organisers: Vasilis Galis (IT University of Copenhagen): (vgal /at/ itu.dk)<mailto:(vgal /at/ itu.dk)> Jane Summerton (Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute): (jane.summerton /at/ vti.se)<mailto:(jane.summerton /at/ vti.se)>

Please contact any of the conveners if you have any questions about abstracts for this Track.



Vasilis Galis | Associate Professor | Technologies in Practice research group | IT University of Copenhagen | Mobile: +0045 30522977 | Email: (vgal /at/ itu.dk)



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