Message posted on 08/01/2019

session on "Care in STS" at the Nordic STS conference 2019

                Dear all,
<br>
<br>Please consider submitting an abstract to our thematic session at the next
<br>Nordic STS Conference, which takes place in Tampere, 13th-14th of January,
<br>2019. The deadline for submission is 18th of January, 2019.
<br>
<br>Find info on how to submit here:
<br>https://events.uta.fi/nordicsts2019/call-for-papers-2/
<br>
<br>Title: Care in STS - objects, transformations and politics
<br>
<br>
<br>Description:
<br>Care has - after being an important topic in feminist research since the 70's
<br>- in recent years gained increased momentum in science and technology studies
<br>(STS). Building on a feminist ethics of care, STS scholars have emphasised
<br>local solutions rather than general ethical principles (Mol et al. 2010). By
<br>attending to care as a material and political doing, focus has been on care as
<br>something being enacted in diverse practices, such as farming (Singleton
<br>2012), health care (Mol 2010), soil and permaculture (Puig de la Bellacasa
<br>2017) and laboratories (Giraud & Hollin 2016). Moreover, feminist STS scholars
<br>have noted that care is not a taken-for-granted good; it should not be
<br>conflated with affection and positive feelings (Martin et al. 2015), and it
<br>can include harm and vulnerabilities (Singleton & Mee 2017). In the process of
<br>cherishing some things, care also excludes others. Importantly, this points
<br>towards the possibilities and problems of care as a topic for STS research.
<br>What is gained from studying practices as care practices and what is lost?
<br>What is made present and what is made absent? When and where is it fruitful to
<br>think about science and technology as matters of care? We are, thus,
<br>interested in further pushing care as an analytical and empirical resource for
<br>STS scholars.
<br>This panel welcomes contributions that engage with care in various ways, and
<br>from a range of empirical areas. We welcome papers that empirically,
<br>methodologically and theoretically approach the growing importance of care for
<br>STS analysis. This can for example be about:
<br>
<br>  *   Pushing care in new empirical areas
<br>  *   Care as a matter of (translocal) responsibility
<br>  *   Care as doing bads and goods
<br>  *   Tensions between care as empirical practice and research practice
<br>  *   Care research as ethico-political practice
<br>  *   Methods as a way of doing care
<br>
<br>We look forward to your proposals!
<br>
<br>
<br>Best,
<br>
<br>Doris Lydahl, University of Tampere/University of Gothenburg,
<br>doris.lydahl@gu.se
<br>Elena Bogdanova, University of Gothenburg,
<br>elena.bogdanova@gu.se
<br>Linda Soneryd, University of Gothenburg,
<br>linda.soneryd@gu.se
<br>Lisa Lindn, University of Gothenburg/Lancaster University,
<br>lisa.linden@gu.se
<br>
<br>
<br>___________________________________________
<br>Lisa Lindn
<br>PhD, Postdoc
<br>Department of Sociology and Work Science, University of Gothenburg
<br>E-post: lisa.linden@gu.se
<br>http://socav.gu.se/om_institutionen/personal?userId=xlinlb
<br>Latest
<br>publication: Lindn, L (forthcoming 2019) Love and Fear? Affect, Public
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