Dear all,
<br>
<br>A reminder that the deadline to submit papers for our panel Meetings of local
<br>knowledges: conflicts, complements, and reconfigurations at EASST 2018,
<br>25-28th July, Lancaster University, is February 14th. You can submit abstracts
<br>and contact the conveners at
<br>https://nomadit.co.uk/easst/easst2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/6185.
<br>
<br>STS has long been interested in the situatedness of all knowledge and the
<br>consequences this has for ways of being in the world, and has produced
<br>insightful studies of situations where different ways of knowing collide or
<br>slide past each other (e.g. Wynne, 1996; Verran, 1998). Today, in the face of
<br>challenges such as climate change, environmental degradation and social
<br>justice, traditional and other local knowledges are being revalued - but how,
<br>by whom, and with what effects? International trends towards participation and
<br>co-production, the 'turn' that was first lauded for bringing different actors
<br>and knowledges together in newly productive relations, then lambasted as a
<br>neoliberal project of co-option and colonisation, show no signs of abating.
<br>Rather than rehearse the well-established arguments about the 'dark side' of
<br>these trends, we seek "more nuanced analyses of the conflicting rationalities
<br> and the dynamics and contradictions often found at the micro-level"
<br>(Brownill & Parker, 2010). And we recognise that this applies as much to the
<br>knowledges that we produce as the knowledges we research (Yeh, 2016).
<br>
<br>This panel invites contributions that investigate the processes of
<br>mobilization, translation and application that are implied in enabling
<br>different knowledges to meet and have effect in specific contexts. Ranging
<br>from Indigenous people reinterpreting the knowledge of their elders to solve
<br>contemporary problems, to local knowledges within Western cultures that are
<br>tied to particular places and trajectories, we focus on the interfaces where
<br>knowledges and worlds come together and how this encounter can become more
<br>productive.
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<br>References:
<br>
<br>BROWNILL, S. & PARKER, G. 2010. Why Bother with Good Works? The Relevance of
<br>Public Participation(s) in Planning in a Post-collaborative Era. Planning
<br>Practice & Research, 25, 275-282.
<br>
<br>VERRAN, H. 1998. Re- imagining land ownership in Australia. Postcolonial
<br>Studies, 1, 237-254.
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<br>WYNNE, B. 1996. May the sheep safely graze? A reflexive view of the expert-lay
<br>knowledge divide. In: SZERSZYNSKI, B., LASH, S. & WYNNE, B. (eds.) Risk,
<br>environment and modernity: towards a new ecology. London: Sage.
<br>
<br>YEH, E. 2016. How can experience of local residents be knowledge?
<br>Challenges in interdisciplinary climate change research Area, 48, 34-40.
<br>
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<br>
<br>More details about the conference can be found at:
<br>https://easst2018.easst.net/. We look forward to your contributions!
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>Andy, Linda & Nicole
<br>
<br>
<br>Andy Yuille (Lancaster University), Linda Russell (Universidad Autonoma de
<br>Campeche), Nicole Klenk (University of Toronto)
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