Message posted on 17/09/2024
Call for Abstracts: Open Panel on "Valuing Sustainability in Technoscientific Capitalism" at STS Hub 2025
Dear colleagues, I am excited to announce that Tanja Schneider (DTU Copenhagen) and I will be co-hosting an open panel titled *"Valuing Sustainability in Technoscientific Capitalism"* at the upcoming *STS Hub 2025 - Diffracting the Critical*, which will take place from March 11-14, 2025, in Berlin ( https://sts-hub.de/25/). We would like to invite you to contribute to this panel by submitting an abstract for consideration. The deadline for submitting abstracts is 31 October 2024 and abstracts should be no longer than 200 words. Please also include a short bio of 75 words with your abstract. If you would like to submit an abstract or have any questions, please contact Cornelius Heimstädt at cornelius.heimstaedt@hu-berlin.de. Below, you'll find the full panel description, which outlines the theme we aim to explore. We look forward to receiving your contributions and hope to see many of you involved in what promises to be an engaging and insightful discussion. Best regards, Cornelius Heimstädt & Tanja Schneider *Panel abstract: *The concept of sustainability is ubiquitous in contemporary economies, yet actors invoke it to describe a wide range of practices and processes—often with divergent, sometimes contradictory, implications. An electric car manufacturer may call his new factory sustainable, despite it being constructed in a water conservation area. A start-up helping polluting industries (e.g. petrochemical, meat, aviation) oAset carbon emissions may do so in the name of sustainability. Meanwhile, an organic farmer may cite sustainability to explain the elevated price of her carrots. Inspired by, but not identical to, debates on the valuation of nature (e.g. Fourcade, 2011; Fairbairn, 2021; Asdal & Huse, 2023), this panel invites researchers to investigate the many ways in which sustainability is valued in technoscientific capitalism. The valuation practices (see Helgesson & Muniesa, 2013) we encourage exploring are diverse and may encompass, but are not limited to, re-defining, operationalizing, quantifying, pricing, and contesting sustainability. By analyzing these practices across diAerent industries, our panel aims for a transversal diAraction of the “economized” (Çalışkan & Callon, 2009) sustainability discourses shaping the present—perhaps starting with, but going beyond, the critical reflex of “debunking” (Latour, 2004) them as mere instances of ‘greenwashing’ or similar. -- Dr. Cornelius Heimstädt Post-Doctoral Researcher at BioMaterialities Agricultural and Food Policy Group Thaer-Institute, Faculty of Life Sciences Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin _______________________________________________ EASST's Eurograd mailing list Eurograd (at) lists.easst.net Unsubscribe or edit subscription options: http://lists.easst.net/listinfo.cgi/eurograd-easst.net Meet us via https://twitter.com/STSeasst Report abuses of this list to Eurograd-owner@lists.easst.netview formatted text
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