Dear all,
<br>
<br>Please find below a call for papers for the open panel 13 of the Society for
<br>Social Studies of Science (4S). The conference will be held from 18 to 21 of
<br>august in Prague..
<br>Deadline : February 29th / 250 words
<br>
<br>Registration and submission here
<br>Looking forward to reading you,
<br>
<br>Benjamin Raimbault et Mathieu Baudrin
<br>
<br>13. Be(com)ing industrial: objects, scales, and power dynamics at play
<br>
<br>Benjamin Raimbault, Institute For Research and Innovation in Society; Mathieu
<br>Baudrin, CSI-Ecole Des Mines De Paris
<br>
<br>Since the organization of the sugar cane plantations, industrial processes
<br>have colonized not only the model of manufacturing production, but also
<br>logistics, bio-objects, and the digital world. The common statement describing
<br>the service and digital societies as post-industrial ones is weakened by the
<br>continuous expansion of industrial processes where the know-how to make
<br>things, people, processes, more scalable and more profitable.
<br>
<br>In the STS literature, industries have been much more discussed regarding
<br>their role in risk and pollution than regarding their specific regimes of
<br>constitution and perpetuation. This panel intends dealing with contemporary
<br>industrial processes through a twofold questioning:
<br>
<br>1/ How scalability can be studied in the making? What kind of knowledge are
<br>produced to make things and tasks scalable? How do industrial processes
<br>articulate initial projects, international norms and cost evaluation? What
<br>does it do to the objects, to persons and spaces that are absorbed in those
<br>processes?
<br>
<br>2/ How do industries define themselves across time? How economic interests
<br>emerge? How techno-industrial assemblages are reshaped through critical
<br>moments? Being an industry is not as obvious that it may be, it requires a
<br>process of self-definition, collective identification, political
<br>representation, that can’t be taken for granted. The ability to identify
<br>what are the core and might shift across time to preserve the industry facing
<br>controversies.
<br>
<br>This panel invites empirical and theoretical papers that document or help to
<br>answer to one or more of these questions.
<br>
<br>Contact: raimbault.benjamin6@gmail.com
<br>
<br>Keywords: Scalability-industrial processes-extension and maintenance of
<br>techno-industrial assemblage
<br>
<br>Categories: Engineering and Infrastructure
<br>
<br>Economics, Markets, Value/Valuation
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>Mathieu Baudrin
<br>SCALINGS H2020
<br>Mines Paristech (Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation)
<br>60 Bd Saint-Michel 75006 Paris
<br>mathieu.baudrin@mines-paristech.fr
<br>+33(0)651504435
<br>+33(0)140519039
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