[ecrea] CFP: Unsettling technogenarians: interferences and synergies at the crossroads of Age Studies and STS

*Unsettling technogenarians: interferences and synergies at the 
crossroads of Age Studies and Science and Technology Studies.*


    Call for papers for 2nd International Workshop on Socio-gerontechnology


*Dates*: 21st and 22nd of June 2018

*Location*: Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3), Universitat 
Oberta de Catalunya, Castelldefels, Barcelona

*Organizers: *Daniel López (CareNet - IN3/UOC), Roser Beneito-Montagut 
(CareNet - IN3/UOC & SOCSI-Cardiff University), Lluvi Farré (CareNet - 
IN3/UOC), Andrea García-Santesmases (CareNet - IN3/UOC), Arantza 
Begueria (Siegen University), Mireia Fernández-Ardèvol (CNSC – IN3/UOC).



The _CareNet research group_ <http://carenet.in3.uoc.edu/>has the 
pleasure to invite papers for an *international workshop*exploring the 
intersection of Science and Technology Studies and Age Studies, to be 
held in the _Internet Interdisciplinary Institute_ 
<http://in3.uoc.edu/>(IN3/UOC) in Castelldefels (Barcelona) on the 
*21st-22nd June 2018*.


After its 2017 inaugural meeting in Vienna, this is the second workshop 
of the Socio-gerontechnology network that explores themes at the 
intersection of STS and Age Studies. The aims of the Barcelona meeting 
are to bring together scholars working in this and related areas, 
discuss recent developments in the field, and further build the network. 
There will be ample room to discuss papers.


The concept “technogenarian” is proposed by Joyce and Loe (2010) to 
bring to the fore aspects of the ageing experience that usually remain 
concealed by structural ageism: older people are not only the 
beneficiaries or dupers of science and technologies but they create, 
use, and adapt technologies to negotiate in every dimension of their 
daily life. The existence of the technogenarians signals a research 
domain at the crossroad of Science and Technology Studies and Ageing 
Studies that is currently under explored. However, as Joyce and Loe 
(2010) acknowledge, the technogenarians are usually the “economically 
privileged baby boomers” that seem to better enact the successful and 
active ageing core values. By unsettling technogenarians, we are sending 
an invitation to social science scholars to further explore this 
interstitial domain between STS and Ageing Studies in order to address 
questions such as: what are the critical consequences of science and 
technological innovations in the life of older people, what forms of 
“being old” or social groups are left aside, co-opted, or normalized in 
the design and implementation of new technologies for active ageing. In 
sum, *we would like to explore what happens to Age Studies and STS if 
rather than greying the cyborg we try to cyborg the grey*.


We welcome paper proposals from people at any stage in their career 
around the topic of the call or any of the following which can be 
situated at the crossroad of Age Studies and Science and Technology Studies.


  *

    The digital everyday life of older people

  *

    Gaming and older people

  *

    Social media, participation and isolation in later life

  *

    Critical approaches to active & independent ageing and silver economy

  *

    The constitution of later life in biomedical and ICT innovations

  *

    Changing geographies of later life in a digitized world

  *

    Ageism, antiaging and innovation

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    Design for, with and by older people

  *

    Care infrastructures in the ageing societies

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    Future making and the coming of the ageing society

  *

    Queering ageing

  *

    Citizenship, activism and older people.


Abstracts of *no more than 300 words*should be submitted to 
_*(carenet /at/ uoc.edu)*_ <mailto:(carenet /at/ uoc.edu)>**by *15th of March*. We 
will inform authors if they are *accepted*by *30th March*.



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