Dear all,
at the risk of drowning in a wealth of EASST CfP on this listserv and
inundating your mailbox: If your work relates to food, innovation and
respectively diverse publics, please consider submitting an abstract to the
panel
Trouble swallowing? Food, technoscience and publics (A25)
Short abstract
This track explores how food mediates public engagement with sociotechnical
issues, and in turn how public engagement shapes what food has come to be. We
ask how policy agendas seek to 'democratize' food systems, while 'disruptive'
innovations may spark new forms of public engagement.
Long abstract
Food - its nature, technologies, production systems and nutritional values -
is once again receiving much political and public attention. Food innovations
are promoted as solutions to global food problems while regularly sparking
public controversies about the 'nature' of food. Longstanding issues - whether
pesticide use, GMO regulation or fortified food - demonstrate that edible
things are not only consumption objects but also mediate public engagement
with technology and nature. Indeed, many inventive approaches to public
participation have emerged in response to food controversies: from tasting
trails to activism 'in the field' to dietary movements. Consumers' refusal to
swallow technologically enhanced food is often interpreted as 'lack of trust'
in science and regulation. Yet, STS research shows that consumer resistance is
also a response to attempts to use food for governing populations, producing
'good citizens' or 'economizing' public relationships with nature. Food
innovation is thus shaped by existing ideas of democracy, citizenship, and
cultural belonging, and conversely provokes new knowledge ways, subjects and
social orders.
This track invites explorations into how food mediates public engagement with
social, technical and environmental issues, and how in turn public engagement
shapes what food has come to be. We seek to interrogate how contemporary
policy agendas, like responsible research and innovation or citizens as
co-creators, contribute to ideas of further 'democratizing' food systems.
Likewise, we inquire how 'disruptive' innovations, such as vertical farming or
lab-grown meat, may spark new forms of public engagement with socio-technical
challenges, e.g. with climate change or food security.
Convenors:
Mascha Gugganig (Technical University Munich)
Laurie Waller (Technische Universitt Mnchen)
https://nomadit.co.uk/easst/easst2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/6276
Please send any questions and your proposed abstract (short and long) to
mascha.gugganig@tum.de by February 9th (as you might know the final EASST
deadline is February 14th, see here for all instructions
https://easst2018.easst.net/call-for-papers/
Many thanks, and do distribute to folks and listservs you believe would be
fitting.
All my very best,
Mascha
Mascha Gugganig, PhD
Postdoctoral Researcher
Research Group "Innovation, Society and Public Policy" (ISPP)
Munich Center for Technology in Society
Technical University Munich
Phone: ++49 89 289 29238
Augustenstr. 46, 80333 Munich
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