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CfP: Appropriating Technologies, 24-25 September
Apologies for X-posting. <br> <br>Call for papers <br>Appropriating technologies: <br>The political economy and routinization of artefacts and devices <br>Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark <br>24-25 September 2018 <br>Keynote speakers: <br> <br> Professor Brian Larkin (Department of Anthropology, Columbia <br>University) <br> <br> Associate Professor Antina von Schnitzler (Public Engagement, The <br>New School) <br> <br> Associate Professor Mikkel Bille (Department of People and <br>Technology, Roskilde University) <br>Technologies are ubiquitous in people's lives, from the credit cards used in <br>countless daily transactions to water infrastructures, domestic appliances and <br>medical technologies that enable people to live with chronic diseases. Whether <br>imbricated into practices of cleanliness, sustenance, health, nourishment, <br>livelihood, sustainability, connecting or indeed enjoyment, technologies - <br>understood as artefacts and devices created to enlarge people's powers and <br>capacities - can be both enduring and increasingly specialized or 'smart'. <br>Once available, new technologies can be rejected, accepted or retooled in <br>different ways. And, as technologies become a routine part of daily life, they <br>often generate particular forms of habituated practice and specific forms of <br>sociality. <br> <br>The "Appropriating Technologies" seminar will focus on routes of routinization <br>in different technological fields - e.g. trading, energy, telecommunications, <br>food, welfare, health and medicine, water, housing or transportation. A focus <br>on routinization allows for explorations of the socio-historical conditions of <br>the mass production, circulation and distribution of particular technologies <br>often as part of larger assemblages, apparatuses or infrastructures; the <br>habituated daily micro-practices that tend to coalesce around particular <br>technologies; and the ways in which specific technologies come to be <br>appropriated and retooled - often in unimagined or unintended ways - by <br>persons going about their everyday affairs. The goal of our seminar is to <br>locate localized interactions with and appropriations of technologies by <br>persons and communities within broader structures, hegemonies, and <br>inequalities of power, production, distribution and consumption across <br>different scales, e.g. local market places, regional spheres of exchange, <br>transnational regimes of value and (mistrust), and global chains of capital <br>and production. Likewise, seminar participants will explore how particular <br>technologies come to be developed and 'rolled out' through the market or as <br>part of governmental programmes. How can anthropological approaches contribute <br>to the study of how specific technologies are developed, adapted, routinized <br>or appropriated? <br> <br>Organized by the Technology and Political Economy (TAPE) researcher group at <br>the Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen, the "Appropriating <br>technologies" seminar is a part of The Research Network for the Anthropology <br>of Technology (http://www.antech.aau.dk/) seminar series. The seminar will <br>take place over 2 days in September 2018 with keynote lectures as well as <br>paper presentations. Participants will include anthropologists working in the <br>private sector, governmental agencies as well as within the academy. <br>We welcome papers that address: <br> <br> <br> how people's appropriations and creative uses of technologies as <br>they go about their everyday business are always located within broader <br>technical and political-economic practices and systems <br> <br> the ways in which technology developers seek to engage with <br>potential users <br> <br> unintended uses of particular technologies as these come to <br>circulate and become available <br>Presntation formats can include academic papers, project presentations, short <br>video presentations as well as case studies 'from the field'. <br>Abstract deadline: 29 June 2018, 100-200 words to be sent to Eva Iris Otto: <br>eio@anthro.ku.dk <br> <br>Participation is free and coffee and lunch will be provided during the two-day <br>event. Registration is required. The seminar is funded by Independent Research <br>Fund Denmark. <br> <br> <br>Ayo Wahlberg <br>Professor MSO <br> <br>Department of Anthropology <br>University of Copenhagen <br>ster Farimagsgade 5 <br>1353 Copenhagen K <br>Denmark <br>TEL +45 35 32 44 51 <br>ayo.wahlberg@anthro.ku.dk <br>@ayo_wahlberg <br>http://anthropology.ku.dk/ayowahlberg <br>Latest publications: Good Quality - the Routinization of Sperm Banking in <br>China, <br>Selective Reproduction in the 21st <br>Century <br> <br> <br> <br>[cid:image001.gif@01D282D3.61D90A90] <br>_______________________________________________ <br>EASST's Eurograd mailing list <br>Eurograd (at) lists.easst.net <br>Unsubscribe or edit subscription options: http://lists.easst.net/listinfo.cgi/eurograd-easst.net <br> <br>Meet us via https://twitter.com/STSeasst <br> <br>Report abuses of this list to Eurograd-owner@lists.easst.netview formatted text
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