Message posted on 09/01/2019
CFp 4S 2019 Open Panel 'Becoming otherwise: STS inroads into techniques of the better self'
*Apologies for cross-posting* <br> <br> <br>*4S 2019 New Orleans (September 4-7, 2019)* <br> <br> <br>We would like to kindly invite you to submit an abstract to our open panel. <br> <br> <br>Deadline for abstract submission: *Feb 1, 2019.* <br> <br> <br>Please let us know if you have any questions! <br> <br> <br>The conveners: Sara Bea, Catelijne Coopmans, Else Vogel, Steve Woolgar <br>(Linköping University, Sweden) <br> <br> <br> <br>* Becoming Otherwise: * <br> <br>* STS Inroads into Techniques of the Better Self* <br> <br> <br>This panel explores the influential landscape of practices of personal <br>change and radical self-transformation. Practices and techniques for <br>self-improvement are part of encounters and ways of operating in <br>healthcare, education, professional development, life coaching, therapy, <br>spiritual practice, movements like the quantified self, etc. Various <br>instantiations share a staged ‘will to goodness’ and an emphasis on the <br>possibility of change, foregrounding an inward turn to learn how to become <br>a happier, healthier, wiser and sometimes also a wealthier version of <br>oneself. <br> <br>Much existing literature in the social sciences attempts to grapple with <br>the ubiquity of ’the psy-complex’ by analysing the phenomenon as (yet) <br>another manifestation of neoliberal regimes. We wish to move away from such <br>an analytical cul-de-sac and craft stories that do not hinge on unilateral <br>critique or explanatory frameworks. Drawing on STS’ capacity to re-frame <br>the issues under study as well as to reinvent itself, we propose to ignite <br>an STS-inflected examination of ‘techniques of the better self’ that <br>poses <br>novel questions, mobilises inventive empirical methods, and opens up <br>interstitial spaces between critique and justification. What is involved in <br>lived instances or trajectories of ‘becoming otherwise’? What do these <br>allow us to learn about, for example, limits, sameness/difference, choice, <br>care, divisions, subjectivities? In order to address these questions, the <br>panel encourages a wide range of contributions that attend to the <br>teaching/learning, using, incorporating or evaluating techniques of the <br>better self. <br> <br> <br>For submission details: https://www.4s2019.org/accepted-open-panels/ <br> <br> <br> <br>All best, <br> <br> <br>Sara Bea <br> <br>Postdoctoral researcher <br> <br>Linkoping university <br> <br>Sweden <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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