Dear colleagues,
<br>
<br>
<br>this is a call for papers for an upcoming special issue on Ethnographic data
<br>generation in STS collaboration in Science & Technology Studies to be
<br>published in early 2021 (online first earlier) and co-edited by Ingmar Lippert
<br>and me. We welcome extended abstracts by the end of April.
<br>
<br>
<br>Please find the full call here:
<br>https://www.researchgate.net/publication/331071082 or
<br>https://sciencetechnologystudies.journal.fi/announcement/view/232
<br>
<br>
<br>Call for Papers: Special Issue on Ethnographic data generation in STS
<br>collaboration
<br>NTRODUCTION
<br>
<br>STS scholars frequently engage in collaborative research, as groups of STS
<br>scholars as much as in collaborations with colleagues in other fields or
<br>non-academics. This SI explores how ethnographic data is generated and
<br>transformed for STS analysis in a range of such collaborative contexts. The
<br>special issues (SI) aims to lead beyond reflexivity accounts of positionality
<br>in STS ethnography and establish a benchmark for the STS ethnographic study
<br>of how ethnographic collaboration configures its data.
<br>
<br>This focus recognises that STS now build on and critically engage with a
<br>tradition of carefully scrutinising how scientists pursue their research in
<br>the field, the laboratory, at desks and conferences. Recognising that
<br>textbooks' presentations of methods cannot be mirrored in their
<br>"applications" or "implementations", STS have questioned how to author STS
<br>accounts "after method"; and we may attend to "inventive methods" to pay
<br>attention to the various material and semiotic tools and devices (a) that
<br>configure research objects and (b) through which the researcher's data are
<br>achieved. Enacting our own STS ethnography's data involves a range of
<br>performances of "decisions", explicit and implicit assumptions and
<br>politico-normative inscriptions, contingent unfoldings and clashes with,
<br>potentially unruly, humans and non-humans; we have to "manage" our data as
<br>much as our relations within the research assemblages.
<br>
<br>Interestingly, however, STS have not yet developed a strong tradition for
<br>studying how our own collaborations are shaping the generation and
<br>transformation of our ethnographic data. The SI focuses on studying the
<br>relation between collaboration, ethnography and its data as it is configured
<br>in negotiations of different worlds, in collaborations across difference
<br>between researchers and other actants within their research assemblages. Who
<br>and what is accountable to what else and in what way in assembling
<br>researchers, our partners, subjects, objects, our devices and our data? How do
<br>these relations shape and effect not only data but also the objects we study?
<br>Ethnographically describing and analysing our method's data practices this
<br>we call methodography. We deem developing and showcasing methodography a
<br>significant contribution to our field because this promises to equip STS not
<br>only with a resource that ethnograpically working STS scholars can well draw
<br>on to analyse their own method choices but also because this proposed SI
<br>performs exercising a genre, or a language, for presenting and telling such
<br>analyses.
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>TIMELINE
<br>
<br>by 15th March 2019 For book review
<br>essays, submit an Outline of the review that (a) identifies candidate books,
<br>events, etc that the review essay would cover and (b) explains, in 300 words,
<br>how this selection of review items will contribute to this CfP to Ingmar
<br>Lippert via ilip@itu.dk
<br>
<br>by 30th April 2019 For research and discussion
<br>papers, submit Extended Abstract of max 1,000 words (not including
<br>references) that details (a) the empirical object of analysis; (b) the
<br>methods employed to learn about this object (e.g. participant observation,
<br>historiography, open-ended interviews, ); (c) the analytical apparatus
<br>employed and (d) on outline of the argument to Julie Sascia Mewes via
<br>mewes@tu-berlin.de
<br>
<br>31st May 2019 Decision by guest editors about
<br>invitation for manuscript submission to the journals standard double blind
<br>peer review process.
<br>
<br>by 30th September 2019 Submit manuscript to mewes@tu-berlin.de, for
<br>review by guest editors.
<br>
<br>by 30th November 2019 Submit manuscript via Journal
<br>website. Publication after double-blind peer review process and
<br>manuscript acceptance with DOI and online first.
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>Please do not hesitate to contact me regarding further questions.
<br>
<br>
<br>Best,
<br>
<br>Julie Mewes
<br>
<br>Julie Sascia Mewes M.A.
<br>Technische Universitt Berlin
<br>Fraunhoferstrae 33-36
<br>Sekretariatszeichen FH 9-1
<br>10587 Berlin
<br>E-Mail mewes@tu-berlin.de
<br>Tel: +49 (0)30 / 314 - 73212
<br>Raum FH 817
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