[Commlist] Call for Papers: EASST/4S 2024: Untangling ecologies of planetary care: Expertise and knowledge-making in multi-species worlds

Contributions to 4S/EASST Open Panel: *Untangling ecologies of planetary 
care: Expertise and knowledge-making in multi-species worlds*, 
Amsterdam, July 2024


We are cordially inviting contributions to our open panel “/Untangling 
ecologies of planetary care: Expertise and knowledge-making in 
multi-species worlds” /at the 4S/EASST Conference,
which will take place in Amsterdam, 16-19 July 2024.

Submission Deadline:*12**February****2024*.

Short Abstract:

Facilitating critical reflections on sustainable livelihoods within 
multi-species assemblages, this panel brings together STS scholars who 
examine expertise practices and knowledge-making within ecologies of 
planetary care.

Long Abstract:

As threads to planetary habitability are intensifying and diversifying, 
ecologies of planetary care unfold across multiple scales, such as local 
communities of practice, landscapes, and globalized expert systems. 
Facilitating manifold critical reflections on sustainable livelihoods 
within multi-species assemblages, this panel aims to bring together STS 
scholars who assess, among other things, visions for post-fossil futures 
or practices of environmental care. Ecological approaches to expertise 
practices foreground the design of environments and landscapes within 
translocal regimes of knowledge-making (e.g., Tsing, 2015). Landscapes 
comprise interlocking components, such as mountains, valleys, rivers, 
plants, sensory technologies, mediated place images, oceans, animals and 
humans, which engage with one another in complex relations (de la 
Cadena, 2015; Povinelli, 2021). Care obligations for components of 
landscapes are constructed and reimagined in situated contexts (Mody, 
2020). The construction of knowledge on ongoing planetary crises and 
environmental protection is embedded in far-reaching expert systems and 
ethical regimes (Ong, 2005). Landscape experts, such as rangers, 
conservationists, gardeners, indigenous leaders and climate advocates, 
are entangled in various imaginaries and publics (Marres, 2012; 
Callison, 2014). Discourses on sustainable livelihoods are shaped by 
scientific knowledge about ecosystems, preservation and climate change. 
Anthropogenic imaginaries describe how the Anthropocene is discursively 
produced while perpetuating forms of ecological inclusion and exclusion 
(Mostafanezhad & Norum, 2019).

This panel invites traditional and experimental contributions to enhance 
understandings of planetary care: How are colonial legacies of 
landscapes negotiated between local communities and experts? Which 
tactics do indigenous communities develop to secure their livelihoods? 
How does the implementation of AI technologies transform the conditions 
for articulating knowledge about planetary care in more-than-human 
worlds? How have science disciplines historically conceptualized 
environmental protection and care? To what extent does research into 
ecologies of planetary care require new methodologies?

Convenors:

Christian Ritter (Karlstad University) (christian.ritter /at/ kau.se) 
<mailto:(christian.ritter /at/ kau.se)>

Tarmo Pikner (Tallinn University) (tpikner /at/ tlu.ee) <mailto:(tpikner /at/ tlu.ee)>

Rajesh Sharma (University of Tartu) (rajesh.sharma /at/ ut.ee) 
<mailto:(rajesh.sharma /at/ ut.ee)>

Please submit an *abstract *of up to *250 words* here:

https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/easst-4s2024/p/14450# 
<https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/easst-4s2024/p/14450>

Contributions from media and communication scholars are particularly 
welcome.


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