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Dear colleagues,
we are pleased to invite you to submit an abstract to the open panel
"62. Extractivism Revisited: STS Perspectives" at the EASST + 4S Joint
Conference "Locating and Timing Matters:
Significance and Agency of STS in Emerging Worlds", August 18-21, 2020,
Prague, Czech Republic.
The deadline for abstract submission is February 29, 2020. Find more
at https://www.easst4s2020prague.org/call-for-papers-and-panels/
Please, find below the details for the open panel
62. Extractivism Revisited: STS Perspectives
Extractivism has been key to the emergence of climate change and the
rest of the symptoms of the unprecedented environmental crisis.
Extracting coal, oil, gas, uranium, as well as all kind of metals and
other materials, from gold to all sorts of substances used in the
manufacturing of, for example, electronic devices, was never so
developed and, at the same time, so problematic. This open panel invites
attention to the STS study of the co-shaping of science/technology and
extractivism. Focusing on the politics, economics and ideologies
embedded in (and advanced through) the science/technology of
extractivism, it aims at a conversation with studies that have so far
focused on the explicit political, economic and ideological dimensions
of the various versions of extractive activities. We propose a closer
look at the socialites privileged by the very design of the technologies
that extractivism is based on, which are concealed/black-boxed by the
way the artifacts involved in extractive activities -engines, motors,
other machines, devices, machine ensembles, platforms, mechanical and
other technoscientific processes and apparatuses- are constructed and
communicated. In this context, we are further interested in the way the
advance of this design interacts with the emergence of a special kind of
an expert, one that is preoccupied with extractivist initiatives.
Contributions that experiment with STS approaches to the integration of
electronic computing and related technologies (automation, control,
telecommunication, etc) to extractivist technologies are especially
welcomed. By inviting attention to the scientific-technological
materialities of extractive enterprises, and to the construction of the
expertise linked to them, we aim at a critical revisiting of what we
know about the complex workings of extractive explorations and
operations worldwide. The panel welcomes contributions that attempt to
open the “black box” of the technology of extractivism from any of the
fields that contribute to STS (history, philosophy, sociology,
anthropology, economics, policy, etc).
Keywords: climate change, environment, extractive activities,
extractivism, technology design
_Convenors of the panel
Giorgos Velegrakis (gvelegrakis@phs.uoa.gr), adjunct faculty,
Interdepartmental Graduate Program “Science, Technology, Society—Science
and Technology Studies”, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
Aristotle Tympas* (tympas@phs.uoa.gr) Professor, National and
Kapodistrian University of Athens, http://scholar.uoa.gr/tympas,
vice-president of research, ESST international master’s program
(www.esst.eu) and past chair of the management committee of the
‘Tensions of Europe: Research Network on History, Technology, and
Europe” (www.tensionsofeurope.eu).
Contact: Giorgos Velegrakis - gvelegrakis@phs.uoa.gr, geovele@gmail.com
With kind regards,
Giorgos Velegrakis and Aristotle Tympas
--
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
School of Science
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
MEng Electrical and Computer Engineering
MSc Environment and Development
MSc Urban and Regional Planning
PhD in Geography - Political Ecology
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