Dear colleagues,
<br>
<br>We invite papers for a special issue: "Care in STS: objects, transformations
<br>and politics" in Nordic Journal of Science and Technology Studies (NJSTS).
<br>
<br>This special thematic issue of NJSTS aims to provide a forum to discuss the
<br>possibilities and potential problems of care as a topic for STS research.
<br>After being an important topic in feminist research since the 70's, care has,
<br>in recent years, gained increased momentum in Science and Technology Studies
<br>(STS). Building on a feminist ethics of care, STS scholars have emphasised
<br>local solutions rather than general ethical principles (Mol et al. 2010). By
<br>attending to care as a material and political doing, focus has been on care as
<br>something being enacted in diverse practices, such as farming (Singleton
<br>2012), health care (Mol 2008), soil and permaculture (Puig de la Bellacasa
<br>2017) and laboratories (Giraud & Hollin 2016). Moreover, feminist STS scholars
<br>have noted that care is not a taken-for-granted good. It should not be
<br>conflated with affection and positive feelings (Martin et al. 2015); it can
<br>include harm and vulnerabilities (Singleton & Mee 2017). In the process of
<br>cherishing some things, care also excludes others. Thus, care is "a selective
<br>mode of attention" (Martin et al. 2015: 627).
<br>
<br> Against this background, it is important to further understand the
<br>possibilities and challenges of doing care research in STS. What is gained
<br>from studying practices as 'care practices' and what is lost? What is made
<br>present and what is made absent? When and where is it fruitful to think about
<br>science and technology as matters of care? This special issue welcomes
<br>contributions that engage with care in various ways and from a range of
<br>empirical areas. We welcome papers that empirically, methodologically and
<br>theoretically approach the growing importance of care for STS analysis. For
<br>example, this can be about:
<br>
<br> * Pushing care in new empirical areas
<br> * Care as a matter of (translocal) responsibility
<br> * Care as doing "bads" and "goods"
<br> * Tensions between care as empirical practice and research practice
<br> * Care research as ethico-political practice
<br> * Methods as a way of doing care
<br>
<br>Interested authors should send an abstract (250 words) and a short author-bio
<br>(200 words) to doris.lydahl@gu.se and
<br>lisa.linden@gu.se by the 15th of October, 2019.
<br>Authors will receive notifications by the 30th of October. Full paper
<br>submissions according to NJSTS
<br>guidelines will be
<br>due by the 15th of March, 2019 for the journal's double-blind peer-review
<br>process. Review responses can be expected at the beginning of June 2020, with
<br>a planned publication of the special issue in December 2020.
<br>
<br>For information and questions, please do not hesitate to contact the Guest
<br>Editors:
<br>
<br>Doris Lydahl (doris.lydahl@gu.se) & Lisa Lindn
<br>(lisa.linden@gu.se).
<br>
<br>References:
<br>
<br>Giraud, E., & Hollin, G. (2016). Care, laboratory beagles and affective
<br>utopia. Theory, Culture &
<br>
<br>Society, 33(4), 27-49.
<br>
<br>Martin, A., Myers, N., & Viseu, A. (2015). The politics of care in
<br>technoscience. Social Studies of Science, 45(5), 625-641.
<br>
<br>Mol, A., (2008). The logic of care: health and the problem of patient choice.
<br>Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge.
<br>
<br>Mol, A., Moser, I. & Pols, J. (red.) (2010). Care in practice: on tinkering in
<br>clinics, homes and farms. Bielefeld: Transcript.
<br>
<br>Puig de la Bellacasa, M. (2017). Matters of care: speculative ethics in more
<br>than human worlds. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
<br>
<br>Singleton, V. (2012). When contexts meet: feminism and accountability in UK
<br>cattle farming. Science, Technology, & Human Values, 37(4), pp. 404-433.
<br>
<br>Singleton, V., & Mee, S. (2017). Critical compassion: affect, discretion and
<br>policy-care relations. The Sociological Review, 65(2), 130-149.
<br>
<br>
<br>-----------------------
<br>Doris Lydahl
<br>Researcher and lecturer
<br>Department of Sociology and Work Science/ Department of Social Work
<br>University of Gothenburg.
<br>Box 720, 405 30 Gteborg
<br>Visiting adress: Skanstorget 18
<br>https://research.uta.fi/margi/geographies-of-home-based-service-interactions-
<br>at-the-margins-of-welfare-in-finland-and-sweden-2017-2021/
<br>http://socav.gu.se/english/about-us/staff?userId=xlyddo
<br>Latest publication: Standard tools for non-standard
<br>care in
<br>Health: an interdisciplinary journal for the social study of health, illness
<br>and medicine
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