CFP Neuromedical Configurations: Thinking Through Possibilities of Care, Neglect, and Solidarity
Dear friends and colleagues,
We welcome submissions to our open panel at the 4S Seattle conference, “Neuromedical Configurations: Thinking Through Possibilities of Care, Neglect, and Solidarity.” Please see below for the detailed panel description. The 4S annual meeting will take place in person in Seattle, Washington, September 3-7, 2025, and the submission deadline is 31 January 2025. Abstracts can be submitted using this link: https://www.4sonline.org/call_for_submissions_seattle.php (Panel number 24).
Please feel free to contact us with any questions!
Talia Fried, frita@post.bgu.ac.il
Sebastián Andres Rojas Navarro, sebastian.rojas.n@unab.cl
Neuromedical Configurations: Thinking Through Possibilities of Care, Neglect, and Solidarity
Discussant:
Angela Marques Filipe, Durham University
Convenors:
Sebastián Rojas-Navarro, Universidad Andrés Bello, sebastian.rojas.n@unab.cl
Talia Fried, Ben Gurion University, frita@post.bgu.ac.il
Short Abstract:
This panel explores the ethico-political stakes, experiences and possibilities of neuromedical subjectivity. We welcome papers that explore pragmatic challenges and emancipatory potentials of neuromedical personhood, while theorizing with and beyond ‘care.’
Long Abstract:
Neuromedical knowledge and technologies are increasingly reshaping our understanding of human experience, fueling collective demands, transforming notions of personhood, and driving material, semiotic, and infrastructural changes across societies. While advancements in biomedical and psychological sciences have opened pathways for individual and collective action, healing, and support, these gains are unevenly distributed. Stigma, institutionalized indifference, and disparities in health resources persist globally, threatening to overshadow potential benefits. In this complex scenario, how does engaging with neuromedical advancements allow for the creation of diverse realities of care? How do forms of abandonment or solidarity shape the social spaces where health, illness, suffering, and disability are neuromedically configured?
This panel examines the ethico-political dimensions of neuromedical subjectivity by extending theories of care (Puig de la Bellacasa 2010). Building on studies of the relational, ethical, and political aspects of care, we invite researchers to explore frameworks that challenge and complement this notion, integrating STS perspectives on the (un)caring dimensions of neuromedical knowledge and practices with other critical lenses—such as “rights,” “solidarity,” “abandonment,” and “neglect” — and drawing insights from fields like medical sociology, disability studies, political philosophy, urban studies, posthumanism, critical neuroscience and others.
Presentations may address questions such as: How do care and neglect affect patient outcomes, identity formation, and experiences of social belonging within neuromedical contexts? How do neuromedical approaches shape practices and modes of self-knowing, identity, and relationality across different social settings? How are the infrastructural, material, and semiotic aspects of our societies shifting—or not—to accommodate diverse neuromedical identities-in-the-making?
4S submissions link: https://www.4sonline.org/call_for_submissions_seattle.php
Please feel free to direct any questions to: Talia Fried, frita@post.bgu.ac.il
Deadline for abstract submission: 31 January 2025
-- Dr. Talia Fried Visiting Research Fellow, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Post-doctoral Fellow, Ben Gurion University of the Negev +972.52.354.8336 ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8977-7419
Newly published:
- Talia Fried, 2024. The waste of nations: Household trash and the affective politics of recycling in Israel . Environment and Planning E.
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Talia Fried, 2024. What are we to do with Latour in feminist science studies? What are we to do with Latour in feminist science studies
- Israel Sociology* . (Hebrew)
- Galia Plotkin-Amrami & Talia Fried, 2023. Sensitive child, disturbed kid . Culture, Medicine & Psychiatry.
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Talia Fried, 2023. Gendered perspectives on waste in Israel
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- Talia Fried & Galia Plotkin-Amrami, 2023. Not all diagnoses are created equal . Social Science & Medicine. EASST's Eurograd mailing list -- eurograd-easst.net@lists.easst.net Archive: https://lists.easst.net/hyperkitty/list/eurograd-easst.net@lists.easst.net/ Edit your delivery settings there using Account dropdown, Mailman settings. Website: https://easst.net/easst_eurograd/ Meet us on Mastodon: https://assemblag.es/@easst Or X: https://twitter.com/STSeasst
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