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<br>7th STS Italia Conference
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<br>JUNE 14-16, 2018 – University of Padova
<br>TECHNOSCIENCE FROM BELOW
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<br>CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
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<br>TRACK 5
<br>Environmental data from below:
<br>Enactment and participation challenging environmental governance
<br>Convenor: Paolo, Giardullo, University of Padova, paolo.giardullo@unipd.it
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<br>The present track is about the generation, analysis and use of environmental
<br>data as a form of science participation enacted from below. Governance of the
<br>environment is inextricably linked to data. Interventions, policies and future
<br>scenarios for sustainability are all based on data generated and analysed
<br>within specific institutional settings, such as supranational agencies,
<br>environmental protection agencies and official statistics. In this sense, the
<br>activities of analysis, publication and diffusion of environmental data
<br>actively contribute to shape and delimit the field of environmental
<br>governance’s authority through expertise.
<br>Whatever the strategy pursued by decision makers may be (e.g. to defuse
<br>possible conflicts; to enlarge consensus), procedures of data collection and
<br>analysis, as well as their purpose, tend to be restricted to within accredited
<br>settings and further performed in institutional loci. Currently, these
<br>patterns may be bypassed by new trajectories ofengagement that develop
<br>alternative processes of empowerment for non-experts. Social movement research
<br>has signalled the growing tendency of grassroots movements, NGOs and activists
<br>to contest official data. Statactivism is conceptually a specific kind of
<br>participation as well as contestation by non-institutional actors using data
<br>analysis. Other research fellowships refer to data activism as particularly
<br>focusing on digital technologies adopted for the collection of data. This
<br>general tendency invests the environmental domain as well, and it offers new
<br>forms of participation through data. Indeed, environmental movements as well
<br>as other concerned groups not only put the role of institutional expertise
<br>under scrutiny; they can also contribute to developing alternative forms of
<br>scientific knowledge production. Thus, participation is transforming through
<br>the challenge of creating evidence and the organisation of data collection
<br>from below. This contrasts with solicited forms of participation through data,
<br>such as citizen-science projects. An S&TS perspective, paying attention to
<br>sociotechnical assemblages of data infrastructures and the practices related
<br>to them, may bring a better understanding of these ongoing processes.
<br>Therefore, the present track aims to gather theoretical as well as empirical
<br>proposals focussed on combinations of heterogeneous actors in relationship to
<br>data collection, management and sharing of environmental issues, such as (but
<br>not only limited to):
<br>- heterogeneous assemblages for the generation of environmental data from
<br>below;
<br>- design and creation of ad hoc infrastructures for data collection, analysis
<br>and sharing of environmental data;
<br>- practices of maintenance and management of bottom-up data infrastructures;
<br>- analysis of expertise aligned for the implementation of data infrastructures
<br>from below;
<br>- practices of civic hacking for the environment; and
<br>- the role of alternative baselines as new tools of political environmental
<br>participation.
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<br>Abstracts should be submitted by February 15, 2018 to the conference email
<br>address: 7thstsitaliaconf@gmail.com and to the emails of convenors' selected
<br>track.
<br>Submission should include:
<br>1. Author’s name and surname, institution and email address
<br>2. Title
<br>3. Abstract’s text (no more than 300 words)
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