Dear all,
<br>
<br>
<br>at the risk of drowning in a wealth of EASST CfP on this listserv and
<br>inundating your mailbox: If your work relates to food, innovation and
<br>respectively diverse publics, please consider submitting an abstract to the
<br>panel
<br>
<br>Trouble swallowing? Food, technoscience and publics (A25)
<br>Short abstract
<br>
<br>This track explores how food mediates public engagement with sociotechnical
<br>issues, and in turn how public engagement shapes what food has come to be. We
<br>ask how policy agendas seek to 'democratize' food systems, while 'disruptive'
<br>innovations may spark new forms of public engagement.
<br>
<br>Long abstract
<br>
<br>Food - its nature, technologies, production systems and nutritional values -
<br>is once again receiving much political and public attention. Food innovations
<br>are promoted as solutions to global food problems while regularly sparking
<br>public controversies about the 'nature' of food. Longstanding issues - whether
<br>pesticide use, GMO regulation or fortified food - demonstrate that edible
<br>things are not only consumption objects but also mediate public engagement
<br>with technology and nature. Indeed, many inventive approaches to public
<br>participation have emerged in response to food controversies: from tasting
<br>trails to activism 'in the field' to dietary movements. Consumers' refusal to
<br>swallow technologically enhanced food is often interpreted as 'lack of trust'
<br>in science and regulation. Yet, STS research shows that consumer resistance is
<br>also a response to attempts to use food for governing populations, producing
<br>'good citizens' or 'economizing' public relationships with nature. Food
<br>innovation is thus shaped by existing ideas of democracy, citizenship, and
<br>cultural belonging, and conversely provokes new knowledge ways, subjects and
<br>social orders.
<br>
<br>
<br>This track invites explorations into how food mediates public engagement with
<br>social, technical and environmental issues, and how in turn public engagement
<br>shapes what food has come to be. We seek to interrogate how contemporary
<br>policy agendas, like responsible research and innovation or citizens as
<br>co-creators, contribute to ideas of further 'democratizing' food systems.
<br>Likewise, we inquire how 'disruptive' innovations, such as vertical farming or
<br>lab-grown meat, may spark new forms of public engagement with socio-technical
<br>challenges, e.g. with climate change or food security.
<br>
<br>
<br>Convenors:
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<br>
<br>Mascha Gugganig (Technical University Munich)
<br>
<br>Laurie Waller (Technische Universitt Mnchen)
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<br>https://nomadit.co.uk/easst/easst2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/6276
<br>
<br>
<br>Please send any questions and your proposed abstract (short and long) to
<br>mascha.gugganig@tum.de by February 9th (as you might know the final EASST
<br>deadline is February 14th, see here for all instructions
<br>https://easst2018.easst.net/call-for-papers/
<br>
<br>
<br>Many thanks, and do distribute to folks and listservs you believe would be
<br>fitting.
<br>
<br>
<br>All my very best,
<br>
<br>Mascha
<br>
<br>
<br>Mascha Gugganig, PhD
<br>Postdoctoral Researcher
<br>Research Group "Innovation, Society and Public Policy" (ISPP)
<br>Munich Center for Technology in Society
<br>Technical University Munich
<br>
<br>Phone: ++49 89 289 29238
<br>Augustenstr. 46, 80333 Munich
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