[Commlist] Interesting worlds as matters of caring and​​commoning - Call for Abstracts - 9th STS Italia Conference (PANEL 26)

we are pleased to invite abstract submissions to the panel 26 
<https://eventi.unibo.it/stsitalia2023/panel-26> "Interesting worlds as 
matters of caring andcommoning" organized in the scope ofthe 9th STS 
Italia Conference (Bologna, 28-30 June 2023). Contributions situated in 
the fields of platform studies and critical digital media are welcome.

The *deadline* for abstract submission is *January 15*, 2023.
Please, find below the details.

*Interesting worlds as matters of caring and commoning* (Link to the 
panel: https://eventi.unibo.it/stsitalia2023/panel-26 
<https://eventi.unibo.it/stsitalia2023/panel-26>)

Convenors:
Mariacristina Sciannamblo, Sapienza University of Rome
Maurizio Teli, Aalborg University
Giacomo Poderi, IT University of Copenhagen

The concept of ‘interest’ has been central in STS since its inception 
(Callon and Law 1982; Callon 1982), when it was introduced to describe 
networks of relationships between human and non-human actors through the 
employment of devices, the development of interpretations, and the 
mobilization of alliances. The discussion of the formation of interests 
and its related processes of translation has brought the issue of power, 
and its reconfiguration(s), under the spotlight, as meaningfully 
articulated by Callon through the questions: “Who speaks in the name of 
whom? Who represents whom?”.
More recently, the increasing prominence of critical approaches - e.g. 
feminist and postcolonial STS - and the intersections with cognate 
research fields - e.g. participatory design, information science, 
environmental humanities - have stressed the politically engaged 
character of STS which emphasized its ‘activist interest’ (Sismondo, 
2008). That has spurred the emergence of a "collaborative turn" in STS 
(Farías, 2017) that we see as a direct consequence of STS concerns with 
power. The collaborative turn has brought about questions on the 
ethical, affective, and political dimensions of researching by means of 
collaborative and committed action-research projects based on dialogue, 
mutual learning, and caring relationships within heterogeneous collectives.
These concerns have been troubled and further elaborated by feminist 
thinking in STS, in particular with the prolific reflections on the 
concept and practice of care (Mol et al. 2010; Martin et al. 2015), 
which emphasize the ambivalent, situated, and material character of care 
as well as our own care and concerns as STS researchers and 
practitioners (Puig de la Bellacasa 2017).
In parallel, STS research has explored the importance of the commons 
whether these are natural, material, human made, or immaterial 
(Papadopoulos 2018). Commoning practices can indeed be considered 
matters of care as they attend to everything we do to maintain, 
continue, and repair our world (Tronto 1993). Additionally, commoning 
prompts us to reconsider human-nature and more-than-human relationships 
in ways that challenge dominant existing extractive capitalist models, 
towards “the production of ourselves as a common subject” (Federici 
2018). These allow us to stay with the troubles that attend to matters 
of care and the related implications of unpacking the logics, 
contradictions, and multiple ruptures generated by capitalism. Against 
this backdrop, we hope to make visible the neglected and often invisible 
labor of reproducing the commons, and to question which and whose 
material, political, and ethical orders come into play when researching 
and intervening in/for the commons.
This panel invites presentations that explore the intersections between 
caring and commoning in the context of STS intervention-oriented 
research. Both empirical and theoretical contributions are welcome. 
These may include (but are not limited to):

  * disciplinary intersections among STS, design, and commons/-ing studies;
  * knowledge co-creation, co-design processes, material publics and
    grassroot innovation;
  * ICT, labor, and precariousness;
  * theories and methodological approaches as forms of caring and 
commoning;
  * complexities, opportunities, and contradictions of making new
    alliances between researchers, activists, local populations, and
    institutions;
  * sites of ambivalence and contradictions in caring and commoning
    practices.


Abstract should be sent through the conference platform 
<https://www.conftool.org/stsitalia2023/>.
Notification of abstract acceptance/rejection will be sent by February 
20, 2023.

For any inquiry, please contact: (mariacristina.sciannamblo /at/ uniroma1.it) 
<mailto:(mariacristina.sciannamblo /at/ uniroma1.it)>



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