*apologies for cross-posting*
Dear colleagues,
we are pleased to invite abstract submissions to the panel 26
"Interesting worlds as
matters of caring and commoning" organized in the scope of the 9th STS
Italia Conference (Bologna, 28-30 June 2023).
The *deadline* for abstract submission is *January 15*, 2023.
Please, find below the details.
*Interesting worlds as matters of caring and commoning* (Link to the panel:
https://eventi.unibo.it/stsitalia2023/panel-26)
Convenors:
Mariacristina Sciannamblo, Sapienza University of Rome
Maurizio Teli, Aalborg University
Giacomo Poderi, IT University of Copenhagen
The concept of ‘interest’ has been central in STS since its inception
(Callon and Law 1982; Callon 1982), when it was introduced to describe
networks of relationships between human and non-human actors through the
employment of devices, the development of interpretations, and the
mobilization of alliances. The discussion of the formation of interests and
its related processes of translation has brought the issue of power, and
its reconfiguration(s), under the spotlight, as meaningfully articulated by
Callon through the questions: “Who speaks in the name of whom? Who
represents whom?”.
More recently, the increasing prominence of critical approaches - e.g.
feminist and postcolonial STS - and the intersections with cognate research
fields - e.g. participatory design, information science, environmental
humanities - have stressed the politically engaged character of STS which
emphasized its ‘activist interest’ (Sismondo, 2008). That has spurred the
emergence of a "collaborative turn" in STS (Farías, 2017) that we see as a
direct consequence of STS concerns with power. The collaborative turn has
brought about questions on the ethical, affective, and political dimensions
of researching by means of collaborative and committed action-research
projects based on dialogue, mutual learning, and caring relationships
within heterogeneous collectives.
These concerns have been troubled and further elaborated by feminist
thinking in STS, in particular with the prolific reflections on the concept
and practice of care (Mol et al. 2010; Martin et al. 2015), which emphasize
the ambivalent, situated, and material character of care as well as our own
care and concerns as STS researchers and practitioners (Puig de la
Bellacasa 2017).
In parallel, STS research has explored the importance of the commons
whether these are natural, material, human made, or immaterial
(Papadopoulos 2018). Commoning practices can indeed be considered matters
of care as they attend to everything we do to maintain, continue, and
repair our world (Tronto 1993). Additionally, commoning prompts us to
reconsider human-nature and more-than-human relationships in ways that
challenge dominant existing extractive capitalist models, towards “the
production of ourselves as a common subject” (Federici 2018). These allow
us to stay with the troubles that attend to matters of care and the related
implications of unpacking the logics, contradictions, and multiple ruptures
generated by capitalism. Against this backdrop, we hope to make visible the
neglected and often invisible labor of reproducing the commons, and to
question which and whose material, political, and ethical orders come into
play when researching and intervening in/for the commons.
This panel invites presentations that explore the intersections between
caring and commoning in the context of STS intervention-oriented research.
Both empirical and theoretical contributions are welcome. These may include
(but are not limited to):
- disciplinary intersections among STS, design, and commons/-ing studies;
- knowledge co-creation, co-design processes, material publics and
grassroot innovation;
- ICT, labor, and precariousness;
- theories and methodological approaches as forms of caring and
commoning;
- complexities, opportunities, and contradictions of making new
alliances between researchers, activists, local populations, and
institutions;
- sites of ambivalence and contradictions in caring and commoning
practices.
Abstract should be sent through the conference platform
.
Notification of abstract acceptance/rejection will be sent by February 20,
2023.
For any inquiry, please contact: mariacristina.sciannamblo@uniroma1.it
Best wishes,
Mariacristina Sciannamblo,
Mariacristina Sciannamblo, PhD (she/her)
Assistant Professor – Department of Communication and Social Research
Sapienza University of Rome
Via Salaria, 113 – 00198 Roma
mariacristinasciannamblo.net
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