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                Dear colleague,



We would like to invite you to submit proposals for papers to our panel at

EASST2018:*Meetings - Making Science, Technology and Society together*,

25-28th July 2018, Lancaster University, UK, entitled *Publics shaped and

enacted by surveillance and border biotechnologies: Encountering "phantom

publics", "non-publics" and "counter publics"* described in detail below.



The call for submissions closes February 14 2018.



Best regards,



Nina and Vasilis



(E01) Publics shaped and enacted by surveillance and border

biotechnologies: Encountering "phantom publics", "non-publics" and "counter

publics" Convenors



   - Nina Amelung (University of Minho), e-mail: nina.amelung@ics.uminho.pt

   - Vasilis Galis (IT University of Copenhagen ), e-mail: vgal@itu.dk



Short abstract



In this panel we ask what publics are shaped and enacted by national and

transnational surveillance and border biotechnologies and how can we study

them by mobilizing the conceptual and methodological repertoire of STS.

Long abstract



In Europe, policy decisions dictated by executive powers after 9/11 have

enabled new national and transnational surveillance and border

biotechnologies to take shape in the name of controlled migration and

preventing crime and terror. What publics are shaped and enacted by these

technologies and how can we study them by mobilizing the conceptual and

methodological repertoire of STS?



The modus operandi of pre-emptive security measures builds on decisions

calling upon what Gunnarsdóttir and Rommetveit termed "phantom publics"

instead of testing such decisions' grounding. If the new 'centers of

calculation' are the biometric data infrastructures of surveillance and

border biotechnologies how can publics hold them accountable?



An alternative take addresses categories deriving from the social sorting

of technologies. Differentiating between trusted and distrusted travelers,

low-risk and high-risk groups, documented and undocumented migrants have

been regarded as dynamic and contested concepts. Dijstelbloem and Broeders

have introduced the notion of "non-publics" to point to heterogeneous

publics with ambiguous access to exercise their rights. How can shifted

attention from pre-given classifications to ontological modifications of

categories provide a perspective on the empowering and disempowering

effects on publics?



A third perspective focusses on "counter publics". Enacting for instance

"subversive mobilities" or "temporary autonomous zones" by destabilizing or

subverting routines and scripts of surveillance and border biotechnologies

allows actors to claim rights and space that have either not yet been

formally granted or cannot be exercised. How can actions with the potential

to circumvent borders and surveillance create invigorated possibilities for

renegotiating their performative power?

 https://nomadit.co.uk/easst/easst2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/6183)





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*Nina Amelung*



Research Fellow



Project EXCHANGE (2015-2020), funded by the European Research Council

(Grant agreement 648608)



exchange.ces.uc.pt



Communication and Society Research Centre (CECS) | University of Minho,

Portugal 

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