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