TATuP, Extended Deadline CfA 2/2021
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Call for Abstracts: Next Generation Sequencing: Challenges for Science and Society
TATuP special topic in issue 2/2021. Extended deadline for submitting your abstract: 27 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)
Call for Abstracts: Next Generation Sequencing: Herausforderungen fr Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft
TATuP-Thema in Heft 2/2021. Verlngerte Abgabefrist fr Ihr Abstract: 27. 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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