We are pleased to invite submissions for our panel "Making chemical kin" at
<br>this year's EASST/4S conference in Prague, August 2020.
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<br>This panel aims to generate space to plot, evoke, and tell stories about
<br>chemicals. Research with chemicals is often approached through late industrial
<br>landscapes of exposure, however this often results in negating the new
<br>relations, material attachments, and shared pleasures which emerge through
<br>chemical encounters. As an entangled method and form of representation,stories
<br>offer ways to think and act with chemicals differently. By focusing on
<br>‘making’ we will collectively imagine what different relationships with
<br>chemicals could entail. Inspired by efforts in STS to resist the
<br>all-encompassing concept of the anthropocene that beckons total and permanent
<br>exposure, we seek to capture the instability of ‘the chemical’ in ways
<br>that activate efforts to find better ways of governing, managing, and living
<br>with these materials.
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<br>Attending to relations that matter for the stories we tell,reorients chemical
<br>concerns from toxic politics to chemical kinships (Agard-Jones 2016; Murphy
<br>2018). Stories of chemical kin are not necessarily affirmative, kin after all
<br>can be both enabling and harmful. We encourage papers to consider the full
<br>spectrum of chemical encounters; moving beyond pollution and toxicants, while
<br>at the same time maintaining a commitment to the violent legacies which shape
<br>how chemicals are distributed – even if their material connections are
<br>difficult to conjure. By thinking with and beyond the ‘villainous object’,
<br>we invite contributions that expand understandings of chemical entanglements,
<br>particularly those engaged in artistic, experimental,and ethnographic work.
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<br>Convenors: Angeliki Balayannis, University of Exeter and Emma Garnett, King's
<br>College London
<br>Contact: a.a.balayannis@exeter.ac.uk //
<br>emma.garnett@kcl.ac.uk
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<br>The submission portal is open until 29th February 2020 and accessible via the
<br>conference website: https://www.easst4s2020prague.org/
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