Message posted on 12/02/2020

Reminder: CfP Engaging Health Activism, Sexual Politics and STS (EASST+4S)

                Dear all,
<br>
<br>Please see the call for abstracts for inclusion in our open panel Engaging
<br>Health Activism, Sexual Politics and STS (#55) below.
<br>
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<br>Conference: EASST + 4S Joint Conference, 18-21 August 2020, Prague.
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<br>Convened by: Lisa Lindn (University of Gothenburg & Lancaster University),
<br>Emily Jay Nicholls (Goldsmiths & London School of Hygiene and Tropical
<br>Medicine).
<br>
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<br>Engaging Health Activism, Sexual Politics and STS
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<br>The relationship between activism, biomedicine and sexual politics has been a
<br>focus in STS since Steven Epsteins 1996 book Impure Science: AIDS Activism
<br>and The Politics of Knowledge. In focusing on how patients, citizens and
<br>organisations mobilise to transform biomedicine and healthcare, STS has taken
<br>a particular focus on public/expert entanglements, such as how health advocacy
<br>groups collaborate with healthcare professionals and mobilise citizens
<br>experiences to influence health practice (Akrich et al. 2014).
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<br>In this panel we want to combine this focus on health activism with recent
<br>calls to address the possibilities afforded by a greater attention to pleasure
<br>and to sexual bodies in STS (Race 2019). Here we also include an attention to
<br>the ways sex and sexuality are mobilised in political engagements with health
<br>and illness. As digital technologies open new possibilities for doing
<br>politics, sex and intimacy, and uncertain and turbulent times raise new
<br>problems for health programming and notions of expertise, we hope to explore
<br>the analytical generativity of doing STS research at the intersection of sex,
<br>sexuality, health and activism.
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<br>We welcome contributions that engage with health activism and sexual
<br>politics in various ways, and from a range of empirical areas. This might
<br>include:
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<br>  *   Public/expert entanglements
<br>  *   Sexual bodies, affect and pleasure
<br>  *   The enactment of biosexual citizenship (Epstein 2018) in health
<br>activism
<br>  *   Continuities and discontinuities: troubled pasts (Murphy 2012) and
<br>possible futures
<br>  *   Health activism and LGBTQ movements (Roberts & Cronshaw 2017)
<br>  *   Categorisations, standards, risk and politics of (sexual) inclusion
<br>  *   Engagements with Queer Theory
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<br>Contact: lisa.linden@gu.se; e.nicholls@gold.ac.uk
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<br>Submission instructions:
<br>https://www.easst4s2020prague.org/call-for-papers-and-panels/
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<br>Deadline: 29th February 2020
<br>________________________________________
<br>Lisa Lindn, PhD, Postdoc
<br>Department of Sociology and Work Science, University of Gothenburg
<br>Centre for Science Studies, Lancaster University
<br>http://socav.gu.se/om_institutionen/personal?userId=xlinlb
<br>Latest publication: Love and Fear? Affect, Public Engagement and the Use of
<br>Facebook in HPV Vaccination
<br>Communication in 
<br>Science & Technology Studies.
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