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<br>WTMC Spring Workshop "Post-Colonial"
<br>8 - 10 May 2019
<br>Conference centre Soeterbeeck, Deursen-Dennenburg, the Netherlands
<br>At the turn of the millennium, Science and Technology Studies was seen to have
<br>made mixed progress in terms of developing a post-colonial scholarship, in
<br>spite of over a decade of post-colonial lines of work in many areas of the
<br>humanities and social sciences. For example, in 2002, Anderson wrote:
<br>
<br>During the 1990s, [such] efforts to 'provincialize Europe' have gained pace in
<br>many disciplines, but they seem to almost have stalled in science studies,
<br>with the engine choking perhaps on a lingering residue of the field's
<br>obsession with a universalized European rationality (Anderson 2002, 645).
<br>
<br>How has the field evolved since? A decade later, Harding remarked that despite
<br>longstanding critique of the underdeveloped ability of the modern Western
<br>science, namely, their lack of the resources to recognize their own
<br>provinciality, "it remains puzzling that the issues raised ... are only now
<br>beginning to attract the attention of broader audiences in the West" (Harding
<br>2011, 3). In 2018 "STS across
<br>borders" was part of
<br>the annual meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science, marking yet
<br>another milestone in the post-colonial STS discussion.
<br>
<br>In this workshop we will consider what a post-colonial project for STS could
<br>be, how it has developed, and which ambitions have been and could be
<br>formulated. Where are we, today, as a field? How has STS been implicated in
<br>and contributed to working towards rethinking orderings of global and local,
<br>concepts of transnationalities and identities, and other "durable binaries"
<br>such as modern/traditional, developed/underdeveloped, Western/Indigenous,
<br>metropole/post-colony -- to paraphrase Anderson?
<br>
<br>We will reflect on the roles of technoscience in the production of 'globality'
<br>of the present historical moment. Such globality is made of declining
<br>nation-states, hybrid identities, contested new global markers (for example, a
<br>new 'global' geological age, the Anthropocene) among other phenomena.
<br>'Globalization' also takes on ever new forms in market, organizations, bodies
<br>and epistemologies: flexible hierarchies, complex transactions, displacement
<br>and fragmentations abide, also in the terrain of STS.
<br>
<br>Guest lecturers: Amade
<br>M'Charek, Nishant
<br>Shah (more will follow).
<br>
<br>The registration form for this workshop is now available
<br>here.
<br>Please register by 28 February 2019!
<br>
<br>Costs for WTMC members: meals 10 EUR /day.
<br>Costs for everyone else: 695 EUR, including fee, accommodation and meals.
<br>
<br>If you have any content-related questions regarding this workshop, please feel
<br>free to contact the training coordinators Anne Beaulieu:
<br>j.a.beaulieu@rug.nl or Bernike Pasveer:
<br>b.pasveer@maastrichtuniversity.nl
<br>
<br>For practical questions please contact Elize Schiweck:
<br>e.schiweck@utwente.nl
<br>
<br>Anderson, W. (2012), Postcolonial technoscience: Introduction. Social Studies
<br>of Science 32(5-6), 643-658.
<br>Harding, S. (2011). The Postcolonial Science and Technology Studies Reader.
<br>Duke University Press.
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