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<p>We welcome submissions to our session entitled "Materiality,
Knowledges, Inequalities: Multiplicity and Sovereignty in a
Post_Colonial World" at the upcoming EASST/4S conference in Prague
August 18-21 2020 and share with anyone potentially interested.<br>
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Deadline for abstract submission: 20 February 2020, please submit
through the 4S/EASST conference website: <a
href="https://www.easst4s2020prague.org/call-for-papers-and-panels/">https://www.easst4s2020prague.org/call-for-papers-and-panels/</a>
Our session is Open Panel number 108. <br>
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<p>Contact Uli Beisel (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:uli.beisel@uni-bayreuth.de">uli.beisel@uni-bayreuth.de</a>) or Katharina
Schramm (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:katharina.schramm@uni-bayreuth.de">katharina.schramm@uni-bayreuth.de</a>) if you have any
questions.</p>
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initial;">Materiality, Knowledges, Inequalities: Multiplicity and
Sovereignty in a Post_Colonial World</h4>
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style="color: rgb(32, 32, 32); font-weight: normal;">The concept
of multiplicity has gained traction in STS over the last decade.
This has allowed for analyses of contingent relations rather
than discrete objects. It has also brought topological inquiries
of knowledge-making practices and infrastructures to the fore.
The repeated emphasis on complexities beyond plurality has
focused our analytical attention on multi-directional processes
of relating, such as co-existence, ambivalence, but also
rejection and failure. However, regulatory and epistemic
practices are bound to institutions and infrastructures, i.e.
they are materially grounded, highly contested and unequally
distributed. Inequalities are not only spatially inscribed on a
global scale, but also temporally layered through past injustice
and lasting legacies of colonialism and imperialism. Recognizing
this, the panel asks how we can conceptualize the tensions
between multiplicity and sovereignty as they emerge in recent
debates around scientific specimens and technological
infrastructures. Instead of dissolving the tension, we seek to
take it as a starting point for a critical analysis of global
knowledge circulations. We are interested in papers that trace
the historical and spatial circulation and political traction of
epistemic and material objects - from colonial human remains to
blood, tissue and DNA-samples; from global waste to ethnographic
collections. What is at stake and how can we move from here?</font></div>
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