[STS-Africa] CfP 4S 2019: Open Panel on Science from Elsewhere: Thinking from Where we Think

[Laura Meek]

Dear Colleagues,
Please consider submitting a paper to our open panel "Science from
Elsewhere", which we are organizing for the 2019 4S Conference in New
Orleans, Louisiana, USA, September 4-7, 2019. The panel description is
pasted below.
Guidelines for Submission: https://www.4s2019.org/call-for-submissions/
Deadline for Submission: Feb. 1st, 2019
We look forward to your papers,
Julia and Laura

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*Open Panel 134: Science from Elsewhere: Thinking from Where we Think*

Organizers:
Laura Meek (Anthropology, University of California, Davis)
&
Julia Morales Fontanilla (Cultural Studies, University of California, Davis)


Abstract:
Does it matter from where we do and think science? How might the conditions
of our em/placement inform what we mean by “science”? How does where we do
and think affect how and what we do and think? We welcome submissions that
engage with minority and/or non-western STS practices and their specificity
of place. We aim to make place affective and disruptive in our thinking
(Stewart 2017). Topics might include questions of scientific legitimacy and
legibility; speculative onto-epistemic openings that make us think with
other beings, entities, and forces which may not be legible as “science” in
all places; or improvisations and innovations for doing science and/or STS
under conditions of scarcity, uncertainty, or precarity. In these
questions, the stakes are both (cosmo)political and scholarly: they demand
a rethinking of not only what we do and think, but how we do and think, and
with whom/what (de la Cadena 2017). We recognize that our knowledge
practices are inseparable from their entanglement with states,
post/colonial histories, political-economic conditions, and the ways these
cohere in bodies, including our bodies as STS scholars. We seek papers that
are troubled by that which exceeds “science” and yet resides at its limit,
and that play with other forms of speculative thinking (Haraway 2016,
McLean 2017, Perez Bustos 2015, Puig de la Bellacasa 2012, Stengers 2003).
This panel engages themes of the 4S 2019 NOLA conference by asking how
science and STS from elsewhere interrupt both science-as-usual and
STS-as-usual.


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Laura A. Meek
PhD Candidate, Dept. of Anthropology
University of California, Davis
(973) 714-0153
lameek at ucdavis.edu <emery.eaves at nau.edu>

Co-Liaison, Society for Medical Anthropology Section News, *Anthropology
News*

Co-Chair, Complementary and Alternative Medicine / Integrative Medicine
Special Interest Group
Society for Medical Anthropology
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