Dear all,
<br>
<br>Below, you will find the call for abstracts for our open panel 199 at
<br>EASST/4S.
<br>Please contact me (kamiel.mobach@univie.ac.at
<br>) if you have any questions!
<br>
<br>Best wishes on behalf of the METAFORIS team in Vienna
<br> and Munich
<br>,
<br>Kamiel Mobach
<br>
<br>
<br>(Transnational) research infrastructures as sites of technopolitical
<br>transformations
<br>As large-scale collaboration in research and the shared use of data and
<br>machinery continue to expand, (transnational) research infrastructures grow
<br>increasingly significant for scientific practice and research policy alike.
<br>Next to scientific relevance, research infrastructures have long articulated
<br>broader political visions of progress and collaboration. Research
<br>infrastructures therefore provide a key site for STS to study sociotechnical
<br>transformations and related political imaginations across space and time. For
<br>this open session, we invite contributions that conceptualize (transnational)
<br>research infrastructures as simultaneously epistemic and political spaces that
<br>mutually shape one another.
<br>
<br>Papers may discuss research infrastructures that include, but are not limited
<br>to, large machinery, shared databases and institutional networks. The material
<br>and institutional configuration of such infrastructures can range from
<br>large-scale, centralized laboratories to distributed networks enabling the
<br>circulation of bodies, materials and data. We invite contributions that
<br>consider a wide range of research infrastructures from disciplines as diverse
<br>as physics, biology, social sciences and humanities, as well as other fields.
<br>We are particularly interested in perspectives on the relations between, on
<br>the one hand, the perceived need to coordinate scientific facilities,
<br>infrastructures, resources and governance, and, on the other hand, questions
<br>of participation, rights and responsibilities, public legitimacy and
<br>anticipated public benefits. In what ways are research infrastructures not
<br>only expected to enhance scientific knowledge production, but also to produce,
<br>consolidate or advance political visions and social orders?
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