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

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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