Message posted on 28/12/2017
EASST panel (E01): Publics shaped and enacted by surveillance and border biotechnologies
Dear colleague, <br> <br>We would like to invite you to submit proposals for papers to our panel at <br>EASST2018:*Meetings - Making Science, Technology and Society together*, <br>25-28th July 2018, Lancaster University, UK, entitled *Publics shaped and <br>enacted by surveillance and border biotechnologies: Encountering "phantom <br>publics", "non-publics" and "counter publics"* described in detail below. <br> <br>The call for submissions closes February 14 2018. <br> <br>Best regards, <br> <br>Nina and Vasilis <br> <br>(E01) Publics shaped and enacted by surveillance and border <br>biotechnologies: Encountering "phantom publics", "non-publics" and "counter <br>publics" Convenors <br> <br> - Nina Amelung (University of Minho), e-mail: nina.amelung@ics.uminho.pt <br> - Vasilis Galis (IT University of Copenhagen ), e-mail: vgal@itu.dk <br> <br>Short abstract <br> <br>In this panel we ask what publics are shaped and enacted by national and <br>transnational surveillance and border biotechnologies and how can we study <br>them by mobilizing the conceptual and methodological repertoire of STS. <br>Long abstract <br> <br>In Europe, policy decisions dictated by executive powers after 9/11 have <br>enabled new national and transnational surveillance and border <br>biotechnologies to take shape in the name of controlled migration and <br>preventing crime and terror. What publics are shaped and enacted by these <br>technologies and how can we study them by mobilizing the conceptual and <br>methodological repertoire of STS? <br> <br>The modus operandi of pre-emptive security measures builds on decisions <br>calling upon what Gunnarsdóttir and Rommetveit termed "phantom publics" <br>instead of testing such decisions' grounding. If the new 'centers of <br>calculation' are the biometric data infrastructures of surveillance and <br>border biotechnologies how can publics hold them accountable? <br> <br>An alternative take addresses categories deriving from the social sorting <br>of technologies. Differentiating between trusted and distrusted travelers, <br>low-risk and high-risk groups, documented and undocumented migrants have <br>been regarded as dynamic and contested concepts. Dijstelbloem and Broeders <br>have introduced the notion of "non-publics" to point to heterogeneous <br>publics with ambiguous access to exercise their rights. How can shifted <br>attention from pre-given classifications to ontological modifications of <br>categories provide a perspective on the empowering and disempowering <br>effects on publics? <br> <br>A third perspective focusses on "counter publics". Enacting for instance <br>"subversive mobilities" or "temporary autonomous zones" by destabilizing or <br>subverting routines and scripts of surveillance and border biotechnologies <br>allows actors to claim rights and space that have either not yet been <br>formally granted or cannot be exercised. How can actions with the potential <br>to circumvent borders and surveillance create invigorated possibilities for <br>renegotiating their performative power? <br> https://nomadit.co.uk/easst/easst2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/6183) <br> <br> <br>-- <br> <br>*Nina Amelung* <br> <br>Research Fellow <br> <br>Project EXCHANGE (2015-2020), funded by the European Research Council <br>(Grant agreement 648608) <br> <br>exchange.ces.uc.pt <br> <br>Communication and Society Research Centre (CECS) | University of Minho, <br>Portugal <br>_______________________________________________ <br>EASST's Eurograd mailing list <br>Eurograd (at) lists.easst.net <br>Unsubscribe or edit subscription options: http://lists.easst.net/listinfo.cgi/eurograd-easst.net <br> <br>Meet us via https://twitter.com/STSeasst <br> <br>Report abuses of this list to Eurograd-owner@lists.easst.netview formatted text
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