The following open panel at the 2019 STS Conference in Graz (6-7 May
<br>2019) may be of interest to list members.
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<br>Deadline for abstract submission: January 21^st (16:00).
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<br>*S27: Valuing and knowing: studying the entanglement of valuation and
<br>knowledge practices***
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<br>Organizers: ASDAL, Kristin (University of Oslo), Norway,
<br>FOCHLER, Maximilian (University of Vienna), Austria
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<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.
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<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.
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<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.
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<br>KEYWORDS: valuation, knowledge production, infrastructure,
<br>quantification, methods
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<br>More information: https://sts-conference.isds.tugraz.at/event/5/
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<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/
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