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<br>Dear colleagues,
<br>we are pleased to invite you to submit an abstract to the open panel
<br>"62. Extractivism Revisited: STS Perspectives" at the EASST + 4S Joint
<br>Conference "Locating and Timing Matters:
<br>Significance and Agency of STS in Emerging Worlds", August 18-21, 2020,
<br>Prague, Czech Republic.
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<br>*The deadline for abstract submission is February 29, 2020. Find more
<br>at https://www.easst4s2020prague.org/call-for-papers-and-panels/*
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<br>Please, find below the details for the open panel
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<br>*62. Extractivism Revisited: STS Perspectives*
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<br>Extractivism has been key to the emergence of climate change and the
<br>rest of the symptoms of the unprecedented environmental crisis.
<br>Extracting coal, oil, gas, uranium, as well as all kind of metals and
<br>other materials, from gold to all sorts of substances used in the
<br>manufacturing of, for example, electronic devices, was never so
<br>developed and, at the same time, so problematic. This open panel invites
<br>attention to the STS study of the co-shaping of science/technology and
<br>extractivism. Focusing on the politics, economics and ideologies
<br>embedded in (and advanced through) the science/technology of
<br>extractivism, it aims at a conversation with studies that have so far
<br>focused on the explicit political, economic and ideological dimensions
<br>of the various versions of extractive activities. We propose a closer
<br>look at the socialites privileged by the very design of the technologies
<br>that extractivism is based on, which are concealed/black-boxed by the
<br>way the artifacts involved in extractive activities -engines, motors,
<br>other machines, devices, machine ensembles, platforms, mechanical and
<br>other technoscientific processes and apparatuses- are constructed and
<br>communicated. In this context, we are further interested in the way the
<br>advance of this design interacts with the emergence of a special kind of
<br>an expert, one that is preoccupied with extractivist initiatives.
<br>Contributions that experiment with STS approaches to the integration of
<br>electronic computing and related technologies (automation, control,
<br>telecommunication, etc) to extractivist technologies are especially
<br>welcomed. By inviting attention to the scientific-technological
<br>materialities of extractive enterprises, and to the construction of the
<br>expertise linked to them, we aim at a critical revisiting of what we
<br>know about the complex workings of extractive explorations and
<br>operations worldwide. The panel welcomes contributions that attempt to
<br>open the “black box” of the technology of extractivism from any of the
<br>fields that contribute to STS (history, philosophy, sociology,
<br>anthropology, economics, policy, etc).
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<br>*Keywords*: climate change, environment, extractive activities,
<br>extractivism, technology design
<br>*___Convenors of the panel_*
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<br>*Giorgos Velegrakis* (gvelegrakis@phs.uoa.gr), adjunct faculty,
<br>Interdepartmental Graduate Program “Science, Technology, Society—Science
<br>and Technology Studies”, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
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<br>*Aristotle Tympas* (tympas@phs.uoa.gr) Professor, National and
<br>Kapodistrian University of Athens, http://scholar.uoa.gr/tympas,
<br>vice-president of research, ESST international master’s program
<br>(www.esst.eu) and past chair of the management committee of the
<br>‘Tensions of Europe: Research Network on History, Technology, and
<br>Europe” (www.tensionsofeurope.eu).
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<br>Contact: Giorgos Velegrakis - gvelegrakis@phs.uoa.gr, geovele@gmail.com
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<br>With kind regards,
<br>Giorgos Velegrakis and Aristotle Tympas
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<br>Department of History and Philosophy of Science
<br>School of Science
<br>National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
<br>MEng Electrical and Computer Engineering
<br>MSc Environment and Development
<br>MSc Urban and Regional Planning
<br>PhD in Geography - Political Ecology
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