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> DEADLINE NOW EXTENDED TO 20
> TH
> APRIL
>
>
> Call for Papers
>
> The Changing Political Economy of Research & Innovation (CPERI)
> 6th Annual International Workshop, Monday 23rd and Tuesday 24
> *th 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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