ECPR General Conference 2019
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<br>*Section 32: Knowledge Politics and Policies*
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<br>*Panel 5: Politics of Big Science and Research Infrastructures within and
<br>beyond Europe*
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<br>This is a panel for the 2019 ECPR (European Consortium for Political
<br>Research) General Conference
<br> in *Wrocław
<br>(Poland), 4-7 September 2019*. It is part of Knowledge Politics and Policies
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<br>Section.
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<br>*Chairs/discussants*: Isabel Bolliger (University of Lausanne), Nicolas
<br>Rüffin (WZB) and Inga Ulnicane (De Montfort University)
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<br>This panel addresses the politics behind contemporary science and knowledge
<br>production, that nowadays often involve—and more and more depend
<br>on—large-scale infrastructures, instruments and data-sets. It is becoming
<br>increasingly clear that individual states can only meet this challenge by
<br>joining forces and developing cooperative formats beyond separate national
<br>efforts. In addition to that, there is also a need to pay more attention to
<br>the interaction between different policy actors and levels, ranging from
<br>the activities of the European Commission to organizational and
<br>non-governmental collaborations in Europe and beyond.
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<br>This trend towards a stronger integration of research cooperation in the
<br>big science sector also raises new questions crucial to the social
<br>sciences. For instance, to what extent do long-established collaboration
<br>formats, such as intergovernmental cooperation, still work when terms and
<br>types of funding and political constellations change? What patterns of
<br>collaboration or competition emerge from the interplay of supranational,
<br>national and institutional actors? How does the digitisation of research
<br>affect the cooperation structures of scientists and states? And how do
<br>recent trends to- wards the renationalisation of research policy and
<br>general skepticism towards science influence cooperation in big science?
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<br>The panel invites theoretically informed and empirically rich submissions
<br>investigating these and others questions related to the politics of big
<br>science and research infrastructures from diverse disciplinary and
<br>methodological backgrounds including perspectives from Political Science,
<br>European Studies, International Relations, legal studies, sociology of
<br>science, organizational studies, Science and Technology Studies, research
<br>and innovation policy studies, history and economics. Contributions
<br>covering diverse empirical cases from traditional laboratories in physical
<br>sciences to new digital collaborations in humanities at national and
<br>international levels are sought.
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<br>More information here
<br>https://bsrinetwork.wordpress.com/2018/12/12/call-for-expression-of-interest-
<br>ecpr-2019/
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<br>If you would like to participate in the panel, please contact Inga
<br>Ulnicane *ingaulnicane@gmail.com
<br>**until 10 January 2019.*
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