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<br>Special Issue on
<br>*Reconsidering Assumptions about ‘Conjugated Subjects’: Connection, 
<br>Sharing, and Entanglement in Postcolonial Studies of Technoscience*
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<br>/*TECNOSCIENZA: Italian Journal of Science & Technology Studies*/
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<br>*Guest Editors:*
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<br>/• /William Leeming/, //
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<br>• Ana Barahona,////
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<br>*Important dates:*
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<br>Deadline for abstract submission: *September 30, 2019 */(extended 
<br>deadline)/. Abstracts with a maximum length of 500 words should be sent 
<br>as email attachments to  and copied to the 
<br>guest editors.
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<br>Notification of acceptance will be communicated by *October 2019*.
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<br>Full papers (in English with a maximum length of 8,000 words including 
<br>notes and references) will be due on March 30th 2020 and will be subject 
<br>to a double blind peer review process.
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<br>*CALL FOR PAPERS
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<br>This special thematic issue of Tecnoscienza aims to provide a forum to 
<br>revisit concerns raised by Warwick Anderson (2009: 389) about what he 
<br>perceived to be the ‘minor postcolonial agenda in STS’ becoming subsumed 
<br>‘as scholars choose now to fetishise “globalisation”.’ At that time, as 
<br>Maureen McNeil (2005: 106, 111) observed, the term ‘postcolonial’ was ‘a 
<br>rather ambiguous term’ touching on ‘both the impact and legacies of 
<br>formally deposed imperial regimes and to new forms of exploitative 
<br>global relations,’ noting that ‘colonial legacies are never simply 
<br>“leftover” from the past, they are reanimated, recast and reappropriated 
<br>in new forms and new ways, with new resistances.’ Anderson, in turn, 
<br>described the uneven and unexpected consequences produced by two 
<br>overlapping directions within postcolonial STS, one concerned with 
<br>‘subjugated knowledges’ and the other with ‘conjugated subjects.’ The 
<br>critical study of subjugated knowledges placed emphasis on 
<br>understandings of power, history, identity, and epistemology that have 
<br>been marginalised or made invisible within Western society (cf. 
<br>Palladino and Worboys, 1993; Hess, 1995; Visvanathan, 1997; Harding, 
<br>1998). Anderson (2009: 389) created the term ‘conjugated subjects,’ on 
<br>the other hand, to ‘hint at postcolonial hybridity and heterogeneity.’ 
<br>His aim was to reveal ‘a more complicated and entangled state of 
<br>affairs’ (2009: 389-390). He also noted that ‘postcolonial theory and 
<br>insight rarely have been mobilised explicitly in attempts to explain the 
<br>transaction, translation and transformation of science and technology’ 
<br>(2009: 390).
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<br>The critical study of conjugated subjects raised doubt about the 
<br>comprehensiveness and efficacy of prevailing narratives in which social, 
<br>cultural, and political formations of technological imperialism are 
<br>depicted as one-way relationships of ‘sending’ colonisers and 
<br>‘receiving’ colonial subjects (e.g., Watson-Verran and Turnbull, 1995; 
<br>Abraham, 2006; Seth, 2009). Moreover, it established grounds for a 
<br>challenge to what Anderson (2009: 392, 397) described as global (or 
<br>universalist) claims about patterns of local transactions that seem 
<br>‘quite abstract, strangely depopulated, and depleted of historical and 
<br>social content’ brought into being by a ‘[r]eluctance to recognise and 
<br>engage directly with the postcolonial spectre haunting globalisation.’
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<br>Ongoing consideration and review of what Anderson originally described 
<br>as the ‘hybrid, partial and conflicted’ conjugated subjects of 
<br>postcolonial STS, we submit, provides opportunities to come to terms 
<br>with what Suman Seth (2017: 77) has recently called ‘the socially 
<br>imbricated, tentative, and complex coming-into-being of the categories 
<br>and binaries [that have been taken to characterise colonial modes of 
<br>thought and governance].’ What have since been called, variously, 
<br>‘connected,’ ‘shared,’ and ‘entangled’ histories of technoscientific 
<br>co-production permit, we believe, a foretaste of what can be achieved by 
<br>untangling and reconnecting local histories of technoscience in ways 
<br>that stress processes of mutual influencing across borders (cf. Philip, 
<br>Irani, and Dourish, 2012; Kowal, Radin, and Reardon, 2013; Brandt, 
<br>2014). Accordingly, we propose to open up and develop the discussion 
<br>surrounding conjugated subjects of postcolonial STS by soliciting papers 
<br>that include (but are not limited to) studies of the ‘connected,’ 
<br>‘shared,’ and ‘entangled’ relationships of technoscience that:
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<br>  * have occurred between colonial powers and independent former colonies;
<br>  * have occurred under (pre- or post-1989) first-second-third world
<br>    international relationships;
<br>  * have occurred in the course of supranational and/or international 
<br>    technoscientific projects involving collaborations between so-called
<br>    developing and developed nations (e.g., Human Genome Projects, LIGO
<br>    Scientific Collaboration, UN Convention on Biological Diversity,
<br>    Millennium Seed Bank Partnership).
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