Deadline extension - CPERI 2018 Workshop, 23rd - 24th July (before EASST)
DEADLINE NOW EXTENDED TO 20TH APRIL
Call for Papers
The Changing Political Economy of Research & Innovation (CPERI)
6th Annual International Workshop, Monday 23rd and Tuesday 24th July 2018
(preceeding EASST)
Institute for Social Futures, Lancaster University, UK
We cordially invite submissions to the 6th CPERI workshop, following
previous events at Lancaster (2012), Toronto (2013), San Diego (2015),
Liège (2016) and Boston (2017). CPERI is a unique global forum for the
exploration of scholarship regarding the political economy of research &
innovation (R&I), and hence at the intersection of STS, political economy
and multiple other cognate disciplines, including geography, sociology,
politics, law, education, medicine, engineering, computing &
philosophy. The workshop series is dedicated to cultivating a growing
community of committed and engaged international scholars of the political
economy of R&I who will continue to build on their CPERI connections at
subsequent workshops and conferences, and through collaboration on
research. We aim to bring this crucial but neglected issue more centrally
to major conferences in adjacent fields, where it remains overlooked. With
these goals in mind, and to assist attendance from as diverse a group as
possible, the workshop is also being held directly before the EASST
Conference 2018, also in Lancaster. Attendance is free.
Our theme for 2018 is:
Making & Doing Technoscientific Futures Better
Keynote speakers:
Professor Susan Robertson
(Cambridge) on “the
University in an age of platform capitalism”
Dr Mark Carrigan (Cambridge) on “Securing
public knowledge amidst the epistemic chaos of platform capitalism?”
[Further keynote speakers for the event will be confirmed shortly.]
There is no shortage of scholarship identifying the profound challenges of
contemporary techno-scientific lifeworlds, whether regarding the
Anthropocene (Hamilton 2017, Bonneuil & Fressoz 2016), emergence of post-
(or even trans-) human ‘digital disruptive innovation’ (Harari 2016,
Lanier
2017), or their conjunction in the emergent ‘technosphere’ (e.g. Haff
2016,
Szerszynski 2017). Meanwhile, and not unrelated, public spheres (viz.
CPERI 2016, Liège) continue to be upended and turbulently transformed as
digital social media, and potentially their deepening percolation into
material life, unleashes social division, economic inequality and ‘culture
wars’ polarization. Indeed, 2017 was the year in which a new
‘reasonable’
or ‘respectable’ declinism regarding ‘civilization’ (often identified
with
Western and/or liberal democracy) went mainstream (Luce 2017, Reich 2017,
King 2017, Cf Mishra 2017).
Techno-science, and thereby the research and innovation (R&I) from which it
hails, plays a crucial role in all these narratives, whether optimistic and
utopian or pessimistic and dystopian. Indeed, the zeitgeist of doom and
incipient barbarism raises with renewed urgency long-standing but
fundamental, ‘big’ questions about the crucial role of science and
technology and innovation – and, crucially, education – in the evolution
and formation of ‘civilizations’ and stable, thriving societies (e.g.
Mumford 2010, Mauss 2006, Beinhocker 2007). With digital social media,
built on privately-owned and deliberately addictive platforms, parsing up
the public sphere, are there even socio-technical grounds any longer for a
single, shared (if not ‘objective’) body of knowledge that both binds a
society together and is itself collaboratively developed and disseminated
by its R&I and educational institutions?
To counter this downward dynamic meaningfully, however, demands not just
the voluntaristic politico-cultural formulation of new ‘narratives’ or
‘myths’ for society, even as these are undoubtedly both powerful and
crucial. It also calls for new forms of active engagement with R&I that
both underpin such new narratives with demonstrable practical experiment,
and thereby bring a hands-on, in-depth and appreciative understanding of
current R&I frontiers that can possibly direct these from within, not just
criticize or critique from without. In short, what remains urgently needed
is (re-)constructive research that engages with changing and
shaping emergent
techno-scientific futures in ‘better’ directions. This encompasses not
only positive agendas and initiatives – e.g. ‘responsible research &
innovation’ – across the systems of socio-technical life – e.g. health
&
medicine, environment, mobility, energy, cities & construction, production
& consumption etc… – but also regarding the institutions and practices of
knowledge production.
This workshop invites papers at the boundaries of STS and political economy
and/or political ecology, across the spectrum of positions (including
(trans-) feminist, post-human(ist) and non-Western scholarship),
investigating new perspectives on key global challenges in ways that offer
promising approaches to future-oriented action.
Papers are invited (for 20 minute presentations) on any theme of
contemporary R&I or higher education, insofar as they engage with making
and/or doing technoscientific futures better, for instance:
We especially encourage contributions from scholars from Eastern and
Southern Europe and beyond, areas which are not well-represented within our
network, and with whom we would like to foster opportunities for future
collaboration, particularly at the early-to-mid career stage.
Papers may address (but are not limited to) the following questions:
· The Precarity of the Expert / The Fact
· The Politics of Expertise
· Values and Valuation in Science, Technology and Medicine
· Austerity and the Economics of Innovation
· Challenges to Responsible Innovation
· The Geography of Alternative Knowledge
· Diverse Knowers and Knowing / Feminist Knowledge
· Commercial Imperatives in Research and Innovation
· Scientific Ambiguity and Environmental Science
· Complexity and Scientific Decision-making
· Technologically-driven Social/Political Change
· Ontological / Epistemic Politics of Emerging Technoscientific Fields
Abstracts should be no more than 300 words, and should include the
author’s name, institutional affiliation, and contact information.
Questions and abstracts should be sent via email to
CPERIWorkshop2018@gmail.com by 20 April.
We gratefully acknowledge the support of Lancaster’s Institute for Social
Futures in hosting this event.
Organizers:
David Tyfield (Lancaster University)
Stevie de Saille (Sheffield University)
Janja Komljenovic (Lancaster University)
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