Dear all,
<br>
<br>Please note that the call for papers for our open panel " Data worldings
<br>and post/colonial connectedness" (#87), at 4S Sydney, 29 August - 1
<br>September 2018, closes on
<br>
<br>1 February, 2018
<br>
<br>To submit abstracts please follow this link:
<br>https://4s2018sydney.org/accepted-open-panels-4s/
<br>
<br>With best wishes,
<br>
<br>Tahani Nadim (Humboldt University & Natural History Museum Berlin)
<br>tahani.nadim@hu-berlin.de
<br>Antonia Walford (University College London & Centre for Social Data
<br>Science, University of Copenhagen) antonia.walford@ucl.ac.uk
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<br>Short abstract
<br>*Data worldings and post/colonial connectedness*
<br>
<br>Data infrastructures have taken centre stage in many of the strands
<br>which comprise the environmental, bio- and geosciences: from
<br>biodiversity assessments and conservation efforts to environmental
<br>monitoring and the development of “urban biomes”. Data infrastructures
<br>are producing unprecedented amounts of data and figures, advancing a
<br>primarily data-based understanding of worlds and compelling the coming
<br>together of different rationalities, imaginaries, economies and agencies
<br>in the pursuit of ever more integration across and connection between data.
<br>
<br>Having worked in the context of the biological and ecological sciences,
<br>their infrastructures and institutions, we observe that these
<br>rationalities, imaginaries, economies and agencies are deeply enmeshed
<br>with historical yet enduring imperial relations. Indeed, we would
<br>suggest that current desires to apprehend a totalised world at all
<br>scales—including bio- and atmo-spheres, cosmos, inner spaces and outer
<br>surfaces of bodies—exclusively through data need to be understood as
<br>constituted in and through colonial relations and their shifting
<br>material realities. STS-inflected scholarship on data and data
<br>infrastructures has provided useful insights into making, sharing and
<br>mobilisation of data as efforts to govern the furthermost reaches of the
<br>“natural empire” (Bowker 2000) and into their participation in
<br>racialising asymmetries. With this panel we wish to further problematize
<br>emergent data worldings drawing on postcolonial critiques of the
<br>“universal” and “global” to examine how data worldings are contingent on
<br>and enact specific colonial relations. We also want to explore how
<br>attending to data worldings can help us understand the ongoing unfolding
<br>and transformation of neo-colonial logics and practices.
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