TATuP, Call for Abstracts
(English version below)
Call for Abstracts: Next Generation Sequencing: Herausforderungen fr
Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft
TATuP-Thema in Heft 2/2021. Abgabetermin fr Ihr Abstract: 09. Oktober 2020
Die Sequenzierung von DNA gehrt heute zum Standardrepertoire in der
biologischen und medizinischen Forschung. Das um die Mitte der 2000er Jahre
etablierte Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) war der wichtigste
technologische Auslser fr diese Entwicklung. Es kam zu groen
Erkenntnisgewinnen fr die molekular arbeitenden Biowissenschaften.
Das TATuP-Thema in Heft 2/2021 nimmt dies zum Anlass, um ber diese
Entwicklungen zu reflektieren. Es geht um Chancen und Grenzen der neuen
Methoden vor dem Hintergrund der sozialen, kulturellen, wirtschaftlichen und
politischen Herausforderungen der Gegenwart. Um der Genetisierung bzw.
Molekularisierung der Gesellschaft auf individueller und kollektiver Ebene
nachzugehen, sollen Akteure und ihre Praktiken, Interessen und Motive ebenso
bercksichtigt werden wie Strukturen und Wissensordnungen. In den STS
standen bisher vor allem die Anwendungsbereiche der Medizin, Pharmakologie
und Forensik im Mittelpunkt. Mit diesen Feldern wird die DNA-Sequenzierung
meist zuerst in Verbindung gebracht. Der Themenschwerpunkt geht darber aber
deutlich hinaus. Gefragt sind Beitrge ber jene neuen Einsatzbereiche, die
begrifflich schwerer zu fassen sind, weil es sich nicht um klar abgegrenzte
Fcher, sondern oft um Querschnittsbereiche handelt. Dazu gehren zum
Beispiel die Archogenetik, die Genealogie, aber auch die
Biodiversittsforschung und die molekulare (Palo-)Epidemiologie. Ist von
DNA-Sequenzierung die Rede, werden Felder wie die Human
Remains-/Restitutionsforschung oder die Genetic History immer noch zu wenig
beachtet. Doch auch hier spielen NGS-Verfahren eine zunehmend grere Rolle.
Gerade mit der Archo- oder Palogenetik ist ein neues Forschungsfeld
entstanden, das traditionelle und lang etablierte historisch arbeitende
Fcher herausfordert.
Erwartete Beitrge
Da die DNA-Sequenzierung zahlreiche gesellschaftliche Bereiche durchdringt,
ist die Bandbreite der mglichen Perspektiven gro. Neben Beitrgen aus
allen TA-verwandten Bereichen (z. B. Technik-/Wissenschaftsgeschichte,
Technik- und Wissenschaftsforschung, Technik- und
Wissenschaftssoziologie/STS) sind besonders auch solche aus Fchern und
Forschungs-feldern willkommen, die sich den u. g. und hnlichen Folgen des
NGS theoretisch-konzeptionell und/oder empirisch, auch anhand von
Fallstudien, widmen (z. B. Kulturanthropologie, Soziologie,
Geschichtswissenschaft, Politikwissenschaft). Auch fachbergreifende Artikel
sind mglich und wnschenswert.
Bitte lesen Sie den vollstndigen CfA: PDF-Download
auf www.tatup.de
Gast-Herausgeberinnen dieses TATuP-Themas: Elsbeth Bsl (Universitt der
Bundeswehr Mnchen); Stefanie Samida (Universitt Heidel-berg/Universitt
Zrich)
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Call for Abstracts: Next Generation Sequencing: Challenges for Science and
Society
TATuP special topic in issue 2/2021. Deadline for submitting your abstract:
09 October 2020
Today, DNA sequencing has become part of the common knowledge of biological
and medical research. Next generation sequencing (NGS), which was
established in the mid-2000s, was the most important catalyst for this
development. Knowledge production in molecular based biosciences increased
significantly.
This TATuP special issue 2/2021 seeks to reflect on these developments. It
is about chances and limits of the new method as well as its entanglement
with social, cultural, economic and political challenges in the present.
Focusing on genetization and molecularization on both an individual and
collective level, actors and their practices, interests and motives as well
as structures and knowledge orders need to be considered. As yet, science
and technology studies focused particularly on medical, pharmacological and
forensic fields of application because sequencing DNA is usually linked with
these fields. This proposed special issue, however, aims to go much further.
We ask for contributions on fields of application which defy disciplinary
classification because they do not belong to clearly delineated disciplines,
but often cross-cutting fields, e.g. archaeogenetics, genealogy, research on
biodiversity and molecular (palaeo-)epidemiology. Despite the growing
significance of NGS in general, its importance is often ignored in fields
such as human remains and repatriation studies and genetic history.
Particularly, with the establishment of new fields such as archaeogenetics
or paleogenetics traditional and long-established historical disciplines are
being challenged.
Expected contributions
Since sequencing DNA pervades numerous social fields there is a broad range
of possible perspectives. We are looking both for contributions from all
fields related to technology assessment/TA (e.g. history of science, history
of technology, science studies, science and technology studies), and,
particularly, from disciplines and research fields which explore aspects of
NGS (e.g. cultural anthropology, sociology, history, archaeology, politics)
and address the below mentioned aspects either theoretically and/or
empirically or extend with regard to case studies. We also welcome
interdisciplinary contributions.
Please read the com
plete
CfA (PDF) on
www.tatup.de
Guest editors of this TATuP special topic: Elsbeth Bsl (Bundeswehr
University Mnchen); Stefanie Samida (University of Heidelberg/University of
Zurich)
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