Reflecting on Shifts in Socio-Technical Production of Knowledge and Communities
This paper is a short reflection on ongoing transformations in knowledge production and building knowledge-making communities. Multiple EASST 2014 conference presenta tions addressed the effects of the recent move to large-scale programmatic research orga nization forms and increasing emphasis on inter- and trans disciplinarity. Several related trends emerged from the rich and interesting material presented during the conference: researchers increasingly working across different boundaries engage in making new identities; emerging communities are characterised by fluidity and indistinct membership; making and negotiating futures are be coming central to the emergen ce of and developments within technoscientific fields and communities. In this paper I map various challenges and open questions associated with these trends as articulated by the conference participants.
Multiple Assembling: Some Reflections on the Assembling Cities Workshop
We assembled a diverse re search community in a work shop discussing the various ways in which STS can inspire urban (planning) studies. This diversity was not only reflec ted in the variety of concepts and methodologies used, but also in discussions around is sues of defining the city. Con sensus, however, prevailed, at least on the notion of a city not as a stable and bounded entity but as a multiple and relational object enacted at specific sites. Although conceptually com pelling, several challenges as to how to operationalize this un derstanding methodologically were encountered. Overall, the workshop made no attempt to discipline research or categorize issues but proposed to study the multiple trajectories of cities in the making.
Studying the Failures of Markets (for Collective Concerns): a Workshop Report
This note reports on the workshop “Markets for Collective Concerns? held at Copenhagen Business School last December. The discussions at the work shop focused mostly on two is sues: first, markets developed as policy instruments and their fai lures and, second, new types of expertise developed to evaluate and repair rkets enacted to deal with collective concerns. In this text, we briefly discuss some of the possible consequences of these discussions on future STS inspired studies of markets.
Editorial – For Members Only?
This is one of your benefits as an EASST member: you receive an email with a link to the new issue of the EASST Review, click on it and access a pdf file containing these lines, as well as a good number of original reports and reflections about recent activities and developments in STS. This […]
Caring for a displacement in meeting formats. Report on the 4th meeting of the STS Spanish Network, 4-6 June 2014, Salamanca
Caring for a displacement in meeting formats Report on the 4th meeting of the STS Spanish Network, 4-6 June 2014, Salamanca by Tomás Sánchez Criado & Nerea Calvillo The #4esCTS meeting: Diaspora and care in an STS network The 4th meeting of the Spanish STS Network (Red esCTS) took place between June 4th-6th 2014 in […]
Early career scholars’ expectations and obstacles in doing STS – within academia and beyond
Early career scholars’ expectations and obstacles in doing STS – within academia and beyond by Nina Amelung “Doing STS – within academia and beyond” was the theme of the pre-conference doctoral workshop at this year’s EASST conference. While the issue definitely matters to early career scholars, as they try to find their own way of […]
Square pegs and round holes: research funding and disciplinary legitimacy in STS
Square pegs and round holes: research funding and disciplinary legitimacy in STS Mhorag Goff The subplenary of Pierre Benoit Joly, Maja Horst, Robin Williams and Fred Steward as chair presented their perspectives and invited the audience to discuss the challenges and opportunities for STS scholars in seeking successful engagement with Horizon 2020, the new European […]
Situating agencies and solidarities in environmental sustainability. Reporting from EASST14 in Toruń, Poland.
Situating agencies and solidarities in environmental sustainability. Reporting from EASST14 in Toruń, Poland. Astrid O. Andersen On Tuesday September 16, which in Copenhagen was a beautiful early autumn day, I left towards Poland, to discover for me yet unknown geographical and intellectual territories. I was travelling to the medieval town of Toruń to participate in […]
Situating shifts. Reflecting on the presentation of change
Situating shifts. Reflecting on the presentation of change Josefine Raasch I had been looking forward to the conference in Toruń for a long time. Having completed a Ph.D. in STS in Australia in 2013, this was my first Science and Technology Studies conference in Europe. I had already decided to attend at least two tracks […]
On the Intertwinements of Care and Temporalities
On the intertwinements of care and temporalities Shared reflections on some of the conference themes Kay Felder & Susanne Oechsner This reflection piece on the conference is the product of a dialogue between the two of us at the EASST 2014 that was continued at lunchtime and coffee breaks. We are both currently working in […]
