Dear colleagues,
<br>
<br>We welcome paper contributions to our open panel: "Topologies of Race:
<br>bringing a touchy object in STS"
<br>(See: https://nomadit.co.uk/easst/easst2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/6264),
<br>at the EASST conference to be held in Lancaster from 25-28 July 2018.
<br>
<br>With the best wishes for the new year,
<br>Amade.
<br>
<br>
<br>Panel: Topologies of Race: bringing a touchy object in STS
<br>Organisers: Amade Mcharek & Lisette Jong
<br>
<br>Can STS be touched by race? Is it capable of taking an unruly yet utterly
<br>political object onboard? And to what effect?
<br>
<br>Although race has been tabooed in science ever since WWII, it never completely
<br>disappeared (Lipphardt 2012; Bengham 2015). In the past decades, as an effect
<br>of the growing role of the life sciences and its interest in difference, race
<br>is more clearly resurfacing, roaring its head in both science and society.
<br>Yet, and perhaps because of its political touchiness, race is an illusive and
<br>slippery object. An absent presence (Law & Singleton 2004).
<br>In this panel our aim is to bring into conversation various practices in which
<br>race is shaped and made relevant. We hope to learn from the individual papers
<br>about what race is made to be in different practices. While in the
<br>conversations between them we also aim to explore how race is affecting STS.
<br>The topological approach helps to not only attend to race as a spatial and
<br>temporal configuration, but necessarily shifts our gaze to STS itself to
<br>inquire the methods and concepts through which we come to know race. Can STS
<br>deal with temporality? Is it capable of dealing with ghostly objects, such as
<br>race? Is it well equipped to calmly study an over-politicized, a touchy
<br>object? Can STS and race properly meet?
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>Prof. Dr. Amade Aouatef Mcharek|Anthropology of Science|PI RaceFaceID project
<br>(ERC Consolidator grant)|Department of Anthropology|University of
<br>Amsterdam|Nieuwe Achtergracht 166 |room C5.17|1018WV Amsterdam|the
<br>Netherlands
<br>
<br>http://www.uva.nl/profile/a.a.mcharek |https://uva.academia.edu/AmadeMcharek
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