Message posted on 10/01/2019
CfP - Open Panel at 4S 2019 - Chinese Global Infrastructural Futures
Dear Sir/Madam <br> <br>Please could you circulate this via your listserve. <br>Many thanks for your assistance <br> <br>**** <br> <br>Dear Colleagues, <br> <br>We invite submissions of abstracts to the following Open Panel at the 4S <br>conference, 2019, in New Orleans. Please also share with colleagues and <br>students who may find this interesting. <br> <br>Many thanks <br> <br>David Tyfield (d.tyfield@lancaster.ac.uk) <br> <br>4S CONFERENCE OPEN PANEL <br>2019 New Orleans Sept 4-7 <br> <br>Open Panel 167: The Belt Road <br>Initiative: Infrastructural Futures & a Chinese Anthropocene? <br> <br> <br>The Belt Road Initiative (BRI), aka the New Silk Roads, is often feted as the <br>largest infrastructural programme not just in the world today, but ever. First <br>announced by Xi Jinping in 2013, it has garnered increasing commentary and <br>scrutiny, but focusing overwhelmingly on high-level geo-political issues, <br>largely defined by existing 'common-senses'. Meanwhile, in STS and critical <br>geographies, an 'infrastructural turn' (Graham 2010) has illuminated questions <br>of infrastructure - its in/visibility & blackboxing, disruption, maintenance, <br>complexity and networked interconnection - as a key issue for contemporary <br>politics; and, indeed, for the contemporary redefinition of 'politics' itself <br>regarding onto-politics, materiality, virtuality, embodiment and liveliness. <br>Booming discussions (largely Western) of the Anthropocene and technosphere, in <br>which issues of infrastructure are central if often overlooked, are also of <br>relevance here, not least in terms of how these will be shaped by the <br>increasing, but unfamiliar and uncertain, global influence of China. In this <br>context, the emergence of an infrastructure programme that would not just be <br>unprecedented in scale, but also a vehicle for the geopolitical ascendancy of <br>the first non-trans-Atlantic global hegemon, presents arguably the key arena <br>to test and develop further the conceptual and theoretical innovations of the <br>infrastructural turn. Yet the BRI remains largely ignored from this <br>perspective. This panel thus invites papers that will explore how the BRI and <br>STS can illuminate and develop each other, and the key ques tion of <br>infrastructural global futures amidst the Anthropocene and/or China's concept <br>of 'Ecological Civilization'. <br> <br> <br>Organizers <br>David Tyfield (Lancaster University, UK) <br>Marius Korsnes (NTNU, Norway) <br>Andrew Chubb (Lancaster University, UK) <br> <br>Submissions <br>The deadline for submissions at the conference website <br>(https://convention2.allacademic.com/one/ssss/4s19/ or via <br>https://www.4s2019.org/call-for-submissions/) is February 1st, 2019 <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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