Message posted on 10/06/2018

CfP: Appropriating Technologies, 24-25 September

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<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>
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