Dear friends and colleagues,
We welcome submissions to our open panel at the 4S Seattle conference,
“Neuromedical Configurations: Thinking Through Possibilities of Care,
Neglect, and Solidarity.” Please see below for the detailed panel
description. The 4S annual meeting will take place in person in Seattle,
Washington, September 3-7, 2025, and the submission deadline is *31 January
2025*. Abstracts can be submitted using this link:
https://www.4sonline.org/call_for_submissions_seattle.php (Panel number 24).
Please feel free to contact us with any questions!
Talia Fried, frita@post.bgu.ac.il
Sebastián Andres Rojas Navarro, sebastian.rojas.n@unab.cl
* * *
*Neuromedical Configurations: Thinking Through Possibilities of Care,
Neglect, and Solidarity*
*Discussant:*
Angela Marques Filipe, Durham University
*Convenors:*
Sebastián Rojas-Navarro, Universidad Andrés Bello,
sebastian.rojas.n@unab.cl
Talia Fried, Ben Gurion University, frita@post.bgu.ac.il
*Short Abstract:*
This panel explores the ethico-political stakes, experiences and
possibilities of neuromedical subjectivity. We welcome papers that explore
pragmatic challenges and emancipatory potentials of neuromedical
personhood, while theorizing with and beyond ‘care.’
*Long Abstract:*
Neuromedical knowledge and technologies are increasingly reshaping our
understanding of human experience, fueling collective demands, transforming
notions of personhood, and driving material, semiotic, and infrastructural
changes across societies. While advancements in biomedical and
psychological sciences have opened pathways for individual and collective
action, healing, and support, these gains are unevenly distributed. Stigma,
institutionalized indifference, and disparities in health resources persist
globally, threatening to overshadow potential benefits. In this complex
scenario, how does engaging with neuromedical advancements allow for the
creation of diverse realities of care? How do forms of abandonment or
solidarity shape the social spaces where health, illness, suffering, and
disability are neuromedically configured?
This panel examines the ethico-political dimensions of neuromedical
subjectivity by extending theories of care (Puig de la Bellacasa 2010).
Building on studies of the relational, ethical, and political aspects of
care, we invite researchers to explore frameworks that challenge and
complement this notion, integrating STS perspectives on the (un)caring
dimensions of neuromedical knowledge and practices with other critical
lenses—such as “rights,” “solidarity,” “abandonment,” and
“neglect” — and
drawing insights from fields like medical sociology, disability studies,
political philosophy, urban studies, posthumanism, critical neuroscience
and others.
Presentations may address questions such as: How do care and neglect affect
patient outcomes, identity formation, and experiences of social belonging
within neuromedical contexts? How do neuromedical approaches shape
practices and modes of self-knowing, identity, and relationality across
different social settings? How are the infrastructural, material, and
semiotic aspects of our societies shifting—or not—to accommodate diverse
neuromedical identities-in-the-making?
4S submissions link:
https://www.4sonline.org/call_for_submissions_seattle.php
Please feel free to direct any questions to: Talia Fried,
frita@post.bgu.ac.il
Deadline for abstract submission: 31 January 2025
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Dr. Talia Fried
Visiting Research Fellow, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Post-doctoral Fellow, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
+972.52.354.8336
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8977-7419
Newly published:
- Talia Fried, 2024. The waste of nations: Household trash and the
affective politics of recycling in Israel
. *Environment and Planning
E.*
- Talia Fried, 2024. What are we to do with Latour in feminist science
studies?
What
are we to do with Latour in feminist science studies
* Israel Sociology* . (Hebrew)
- Galia Plotkin-Amrami & Talia Fried, 2023. Sensitive child, disturbed
kid . *Culture, Medicine &
Psychiatry*.
- Talia Fried, 2023. Gendered perspectives on waste in Israel
. *Heinrich **Böll **Foundation* .
- Talia Fried & Galia Plotkin-Amrami, 2023. Not all diagnoses are
created equal . *Social
Science & Medicine*.
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