Message posted on 13/12/2018
Call for Abstracts - Valuing and knowing: studying the entanglement of valuation and knowledge practices
The following open panel at the 2019 STS Conference in Graz (6-7 May <br>2019) may be of interest to list members. <br> <br>Deadline for abstract submission: January 21^st (16:00). <br> <br>*S27: Valuing and knowing: studying the entanglement of valuation and <br>knowledge practices*** <br> <br>Organizers: ASDAL, Kristin (University of Oslo), Norway, <br>FOCHLER, Maximilian (University of Vienna), Austria <br> <br>Practices of ascribing and measuring value are crucial to virtually <br>every domain of contemporary societies. Be it the forecast of the <br>expected generation of economic value related to a specific policy <br>action, the quantification of the number of quality-adjusted months of <br>life gained through a specific medical treatment, the assessment of <br>whether the quality of an academic’s work merits tenure or the screening <br>of basic competencies of children in education; in each of these <br>instances (and many more) how value is being ascribed will have <br>important practical and normative consequences. <br>This panel focuses on the complex relations of valuation and knowledge <br>practices. On the one hand, virtually all valuation practices build on <br>practices and infrastructures of knowing. Whether it is school <br>performance or the level of Co2 emissions, valuation practices build on <br>knowledge practices defining the objects to be valued and measured, and <br>the means through which this can be done. Often, these knowledge <br>practices are made durable in knowledge infrastructures, such as <br>databases or standardized indicator systems. On the other hand, <br>knowledge practices themselves are strongly influenced by practices and <br>regimes of valuation that define what counts as good knowledge in a <br>specific context. For example, citation metrics affect the perceived <br>authority of both scientists and the knowledge they produce, and <br>standards for considering evidence, for example in regulatory decisions, <br>may exclude specific knowledge practices. <br> <br>This panel calls for papers from Science and Technology Studies and <br>Valuation Studies that address the co-production of knowledge and <br>valuation practices. It deliberately does not focus on a specific <br>topical domain, but invites contributions focusing on very different <br>fields of practice to invite comparison. <br> <br>We also welcome methodological reflections on how to study valuation <br>practices as knowledge practices (and vice versa). What is the relation <br>of recent work on this to older traditions of studying knowledge <br>production practices and their contexts (such as the laboratory <br>studies)? Which methodological approaches are apt to study the complex <br>entanglements of knowledge and valuation practices. <br> <br>KEYWORDS: valuation, knowledge production, infrastructure, <br>quantification, methods <br> <br>More information: https://sts-conference.isds.tugraz.at/event/5/ <br> <br>-- <br>Assoc. Prof. Dr. Maximilian Fochler <br>Deputy Head of Department / Deputy Director of the Sociology Studies Programme <br>Department of Science and Technology Studies <br>University of Vienna <br>Universitaetsstrasse 7 /Stg. II/ 6. Stock (NIG) <br>1010 Wien / Austria <br>Tel.: 0043-1-4277-49613; Fax: 0043-1-4277-9496 <br>http://sts.univie.ac.at/ <br>_______________________________________________ <br>EASST's Eurograd mailing list <br>Eurograd (at) lists.easst.net <br>Unsubscribe or edit subscription options: http://lists.easst.net/listinfo.cgi/eurograd-easst.net <br> <br>Meet us via https://twitter.com/STSeasst <br> <br>Report abuses of this list to Eurograd-owner@lists.easst.netview formatted text
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