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Workshop CfP: Ignorance and non-knowledge: what consequences for democratic governance, politics and policy? 13-14 November, 2018, Vienna, Austria
Dear colleagues, <br> <br>With apologies for crossposting, please find below a Call for Papers for a <br>workshop at the University of Vienna (Faculty of Social Sciences) taking place <br>13-14 November 2018. <br> <br>Best regards, <br> <br>Katharina T. Paul, <br>on behalf of Ingrid Metzler, Erik Aarden, Helene Sorgner <br> <br>ignorance-workshop@univie.ac.at <br> <br>http://politikwissenschaft.univie.ac.at/details/news/call-for-papers-workshop <br>-ignorance-and-non-knowledge-what-consequences-for-democratic-governance <br> <br> <br>Workshop: Ignorance and non-knowledge: what consequences for democratic <br>governance, politics and policy? <br> <br>When: November 13-14, 2018 <br>Where: University of Vienna, Austria <br> <br>Confirmed keynote speakers: <br>Linsey McGoey (University of Essex), <br>Matthias Gross (University of Jena, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental <br>Research – UFZ), <br>Stefan Böschen (RWTH Aachen). <br> <br>Call for papers <br>Ignorance and non-knowledge have become the subject of a growing body of <br>research in the social sciences and humanities, giving rise to a new <br>“sociology of ignorance.” In this line of thought, ignorance is not merely <br>a consequence of the limits of our knowledge practices, but a knowledge <br>practice in its own right. Concepts such as McGoey’s ‘strategic <br>unknowns’ also challenge the assumption that power thrives only on <br>information: In this perspective, ignorance and non-knowledge are often <br>actively produced, cultivated, and exploited as a resource and a strategy. <br> <br>While engagements with ignorance and non-knowledge have become more salient <br>over the past decade, there are different conceptual understandings of these <br>phenomena across disciplines. To begin with, sociologists of ignorance have <br>highlighted the importance of nonknowledge practices as a resource for <br>industry actors. Moreover, political sociologists, such as Matthias Gross, <br>have recently made more explicit links between Beck’s concept of ‘risk <br>society’, ignorance studies, and contemporary governance of risks and <br>security. From a slightly different perspective, political scientists approach <br>uncertainty – sometimes termed ‘contingency’ – as an inherent <br>condition or even mechanism of governance, rather than an instrumentally <br>negotiated outcome of governance. <br> <br>This workshop takes these different understandings and concepts as points of <br>departure and seeks to spark an interdisciplinary dialogue. In doing so, we <br>seek to enhance our understanding of non-knowledge practices and their <br>consequences for democratic governance, politics and policy. We expect issues <br>of ignorance and non-knowledge to be particularly pertinent in areas such as <br>environmental policy and climate change, the regulation of financial markets, <br>public health, migration, research governance, and the governance challenges <br>arising in response to increasing digitalization and automation, to name but a <br>few. Specific questions of interest are: <br> <br>• What relevance do different understandings of ignorance, contingency and <br>uncertainty have for the study of governance? <br>• What practices of governing unknowable or unknown objects, and futures, <br>can be <br>discerned empirically? <br>• What strategies of action or inaction do non-knowledge and/or uncertainty <br>provoke <br>on the part of governance actors, and where and how can we identify such <br>strategies? <br>• How do non-knowledge practices challenge or reinforce governance <br>practices? <br>• What taxonomies of knowledge practices emerge in particular case studies <br>and policy <br>areas, and what do these practices mean for our understandings of governance <br>in <br>contemporary democracies? <br>• How are unknowns and uncertainties currently addressed in different policy <br>arenas <br>and research practices, and with what consequences? <br> <br>Participants <br>We invite scholars and early-career researchers to explore these questions <br>conceptually,through empirical case studies in different fieldwork settings, <br>or both. This may includeperspectives from a range of disciplines, such as <br>political science, anthropology, sociology,geography, history and STS. <br> <br>Format <br>We envisage a small workshop, with sufficient room for comments and <br>discussion. <br>There will be a public panel discussion with Matthias Gross, Stefan Böschen <br>and Ulrike Felt (tbc) and practitioners on November 13. Day 2 will feature a <br>keynote by Linsey McGoey. <br> <br>Abstract submission <br>Abstracts should be submitted as a Word document to <br>ignorance-workshop@univie.ac.at , no later than 31 August 2018 and should <br>contain approximately 250 words. In addition, pleaseinclude your title, your <br>position and institution, and explain in 3-5 sentences what yourspecific <br>interest is in the topic to focus our attention to particular issues or <br>themes. We willnotify you if your abstract is successful by mid-September. If <br>accepted, we will ask you tosubmit an extended abstract (i.e. 1000-2000 words) <br>in advance of the workshop (mid-October), to be shared with other <br>participants. The sharing of these short papers will helpinform a productive <br>discussion. <br> <br>Organisers <br>The workshop is organised by Katharina T. Paul, Ingrid Metzler, Erik <br>Aarden(University ofVienna), and Helene Sorgner (AAU Klagenfurt). The Key <br>Research Area ‘Knowledge societies in turbulent times <br>’ (Faculty of Social Sciences) of the University of <br>Vienna has generouslyagreed to co-fund the workshop, and additional funding <br>will come from the FWF AustrianScience Fund (Grant <br>#VA561). <br> <br>Output <br>We anticipate a publication composed of selected papers from the workshop in <br>an interdisciplinary social science journal. <br> <br>Attendance <br>Attendance is free of cost to invited participants. Lunch and refreshments <br>will be provided on both days, and there will be a networking and social event <br>on the evening of the 13th November. Regrettably, we are unable to fund any <br>bursaries. <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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