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Special Issue on

*Reconsidering Assumptions about ‘Conjugated Subjects’: Connection, 

Sharing, and Entanglement in Postcolonial Studies of Technoscience*



to be published at the

/*TECNOSCIENZA: Italian Journal of Science & Technology Studies*/

(ISSN: 2038-3460 )

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CFP: http://www.tecnoscienza.net/index.php/tsj/announcement/view/25

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*Guest Editors:*


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/• /William Leeming/, //

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*Important dates:*

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Deadline for abstract submission: *September 30, 2019 */(extended 

deadline)/. Abstracts with a maximum length of 500 words should be sent 

as email attachments to  and copied to the 

guest editors.



Notification of acceptance will be communicated by *October 2019*.



Full papers (in English with a maximum length of 8,000 words including 

notes and references) will be due on March 30th 2020 and will be subject 

to a double blind peer review process.



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*CALL FOR PAPERS

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This special thematic issue of Tecnoscienza aims to provide a forum to 

revisit concerns raised by Warwick Anderson (2009: 389) about what he 

perceived to be the ‘minor postcolonial agenda in STS’ becoming subsumed 

‘as scholars choose now to fetishise “globalisation”.’ At that time, as 

Maureen McNeil (2005: 106, 111) observed, the term ‘postcolonial’ was ‘a 

rather ambiguous term’ touching on ‘both the impact and legacies of 

formally deposed imperial regimes and to new forms of exploitative 

global relations,’ noting that ‘colonial legacies are never simply 

“leftover” from the past, they are reanimated, recast and reappropriated 

in new forms and new ways, with new resistances.’ Anderson, in turn, 

described the uneven and unexpected consequences produced by two 

overlapping directions within postcolonial STS, one concerned with 

‘subjugated knowledges’ and the other with ‘conjugated subjects.’ The 

critical study of subjugated knowledges placed emphasis on 

understandings of power, history, identity, and epistemology that have 

been marginalised or made invisible within Western society (cf. 

Palladino and Worboys, 1993; Hess, 1995; Visvanathan, 1997; Harding, 

1998). Anderson (2009: 389) created the term ‘conjugated subjects,’ on 

the other hand, to ‘hint at postcolonial hybridity and heterogeneity.’ 

His aim was to reveal ‘a more complicated and entangled state of 

affairs’ (2009: 389-390). He also noted that ‘postcolonial theory and 

insight rarely have been mobilised explicitly in attempts to explain the 

transaction, translation and transformation of science and technology’ 

(2009: 390).



The critical study of conjugated subjects raised doubt about the 

comprehensiveness and efficacy of prevailing narratives in which social, 

cultural, and political formations of technological imperialism are 

depicted as one-way relationships of ‘sending’ colonisers and 

‘receiving’ colonial subjects (e.g., Watson-Verran and Turnbull, 1995; 

Abraham, 2006; Seth, 2009). Moreover, it established grounds for a 

challenge to what Anderson (2009: 392, 397) described as global (or 

universalist) claims about patterns of local transactions that seem 

‘quite abstract, strangely depopulated, and depleted of historical and 

social content’ brought into being by a ‘[r]eluctance to recognise and 

engage directly with the postcolonial spectre haunting globalisation.’



Ongoing consideration and review of what Anderson originally described 

as the ‘hybrid, partial and conflicted’ conjugated subjects of 

postcolonial STS, we submit, provides opportunities to come to terms 

with what Suman Seth (2017: 77) has recently called ‘the socially 

imbricated, tentative, and complex coming-into-being of the categories 

and binaries [that have been taken to characterise colonial modes of 

thought and governance].’ What have since been called, variously, 

‘connected,’ ‘shared,’ and ‘entangled’ histories of technoscientific 

co-production permit, we believe, a foretaste of what can be achieved by 

untangling and reconnecting local histories of technoscience in ways 

that stress processes of mutual influencing across borders (cf. Philip, 

Irani, and Dourish, 2012; Kowal, Radin, and Reardon, 2013; Brandt, 

2014). Accordingly, we propose to open up and develop the discussion 

surrounding conjugated subjects of postcolonial STS by soliciting papers 

that include (but are not limited to) studies of the ‘connected,’ 

‘shared,’ and ‘entangled’ relationships of technoscience that:



  * have occurred between colonial powers and independent former colonies;

  * have occurred under (pre- or post-1989) first-second-third world

    international relationships;

  * have occurred in the course of supranational and/or international 

    technoscientific projects involving collaborations between so-called

    developing and developed nations (e.g., Human Genome Projects, LIGO

    Scientific Collaboration, UN Convention on Biological Diversity,

    Millennium Seed Bank Partnership).



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