[Commlist] CFP: "Science and Technology Studies and Health Praxis: Genetic Science and New Digital Technologies."

Tina Sikka is pleased to extend an invitation for an expression of 
interest for an edited collection I am working on with Bristol 
University Press titled, "Science and Technology Studies and Health 
Praxis: Genetic Science and New Digital Technologies." The details are 
listed below. Do let me know if you are interested and able to 
contribute, or if you have any questions ((tina.sikka /at/ newcastle.ac.uk)). A 
formal call for abstracts will follow shortly. I am really excited about 
the collection and would love to have a contribution that reflects some 
of the interesting work being done by scholars on the list.

Timeline
January 2021 – finalise chapters
September 2021 – chapter draft submission
December 2021 – return edited drafts for revision
March 2022 – final submissions of chapters
April 2022 – Introduction, final revisions
Completion: May/June 2022

This edited collection invites chapters from a variety of fields aimed 
at the interdisciplinary study of the latest health (digital and 
genetic) technologies using a variety of forward-looking STS methods 
(the socio-technical, radical democratisation, feminist technoscience, 
new materialism, laboratory studies, radical/auto ethnography, case 
studies etc.). What makes these health technologies unique, and 
therefore demands study, is that they constitute an embodied and 
mediated health ecosystem based on neoliberal logics that promise 
bio-molecular transformations of who we are in particular ways. The book 
will be primarily aimed at scholarly and student readers in critical 
STS, race, gender, socio-economic status, sexuality and health studies.
Each chapter will apply some form of STS based method, approach, or 
theoretical frame (e.g. case studies, ANT, controversies, feminist 
technoscience/STS, Indigenous and Postcolonial STS, co-production and 
co-constitution, socio-material analysis, ethnographies) within the 
following framework:
1. STS, Health Knowledge, and the Body
• How new health technologies (digital and genetic) are changing how we 
relate to our material, embodied selves;
• The representation, communication, and internalization of health 
knowledge (mediated and unmediated);
• The economic and cultural inequalities that result from these 
technologies, practices/performances, and changing definitions of ‘good 
health’;
• How health norms, practices, and technologies are taken up and 
experienced by raced and gendered individuals and groups in embodied ways;
• How fatness intersects with science, technology, normativity, and 
equality.
2. STS, Health and Subjectivity/Identity
• How health technologies have transformed and produced new 
subjectivities, relations to the body, and relations to the natural world;
• The study of the way in which ways in which health is tied to and 
reflects overlapping identities vis-à-vis health disparities;
• How the social construction of race, sexuality, class, dis/ability and 
gender are expressed by and through digital and genetic technologies in 
novel ways;
• The study of forms of sociality that these technologies might 
encourage/discourage;
3. New Frontiers in Health STS
• The nature of scientific knowledge (production and distribution) as it 
relates to genetically and epigenetically based knowledge about health;
• The novel and changing nature and character of new health technologies;
• The impact of genetically-based knowledge regimes on our understanding 
of who we are (in particular around race, indigeneity, sexuality);
• How these technologies are wound up and deeply implicated in 
(surveillance) capitalism;
• How these technologies are co-produced and the ways in which gender, 
race, class, sexuality, and dis/ability might be reflected in and 
through future health technologies.
• The ways in which power and inequality are reflected and reproduced by 
these technologies, discourses, and practices.

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