Dear all,
The call for papers for the Nordic STS conference June 7- June 9 in Oslo is
out! Francis Lee (Chalmers University of Technology), David Ribes (University
of Washington) and I are co-organizing the open panel "Agents of the General
and the Particular". Please do consider submitting an abstract! Deadline 1st
March.
Agents of the General and the Particular
This session seeks papers that trace and inspect agents of the general and
particular, the people and things that translate between instances, and
collections of instances, to generalities, in attempts to produce
universalities. Who or what constitute the agents of the general and the
particular, and how do they accomplish their work, to what end, and with what
consequences? The general and the particular are STS themes as old as the
hills. But here we seek concrete examinations of human and non-human
activities, infrastructures, and architectures that make these translations
happen. For example, how particular phenomena become translated into
generalities, such as equations, advice, guidelines, rules, software, models,
algorithms, interviews, survey data or machine learning. We are interested in
the agents of the general and particular in a broad sense, how generalities
are translated into action, used to enact specific programmes or policies. How
are such movements between sites and scales accomplished? What are the (small
and big) tools, devices, and infrastructures that are enrolled by actors to
navigate and translate things/facts/issues/etc. between the general and the
particular? How do social movement actors, governmental organizations,
information technologists, and/or scientists do this? We seek concrete
examinations and narratives of the translations between particularity and
generality (or vice versa!). What are the tools and techniques for doing so?
What are the challenges, frictions and resistances these agents encounter?
https://www.sv.uio.no/tik/english/research/news-and-events/events/conferences
/2023/nordic-sts/accepted-panels.html
Best wishes,
Lisa
Lisa Lindn
Docent/Associate Professor in Gender and Technology
Division of Science, Technology and Society (STS), Chalmers University of
Technology
lisa.linden@chalmers.se
+46317724122
Recent publication:
The needle pricking and two modes of 'doing good' in the Swedish school-based
HPV vaccination
programme in
Sociology of Health & Illness (with Ylva Odenbring)
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