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Situated Agency in Environmental Sustainability

17/09/2014 @ 08:00 - 19/09/2014 @ 17:00

Brit Winthereik and Ingmar Lippert, IT-University, co-convene a conference track at this years annual meeting in the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST). The meeting takes place in Torun, Poland, September 17-19 2014. The call for papers is open until April 23, 2014.

Abstract: In STS, environmental themes have often been attended to through environmental science and policy. Any practice and process of environmental science, technology and policy also involves humans. This track invites paying attention to those agents who are enrolled in discourses and apparatuses that claim working towards “sustainability”, “ecological modernisation”, the “low carbon economy” and the like.

We call for submissions that address how such agents do, redo and undo environments, how they enact and reconfigure environments as infrastructures. Particularly we are interested in a reflexive engagement with how we as STS researchers relate to these agents: In what ways does our research take part in reconfiguring agents’ environmental infrastructure work? Which solidarities are we bringing into the field? And how can we relate to green agents’ hopes and despairs, their (dis)investments into dominant discourses of greening?

Empirically, we are interested in the relations between STS researchers and green agents and their relations to the tools and devices employed by agents to work towards the imagined greening. Which solidarities are prefigured and excluded in the particular configurations performed by and with agents to ‘manage’ or ‘govern’ environments?

This track invites scholars to attend to green agents’ practices and possibilities – beyond dominant discourses of greening – for engaging with environmental practitioners. In short, if we study environments as practice, as done, redone and undone, how do we relate to the doers?

Details

Start:
17/09/2014 @ 08:00
End:
19/09/2014 @ 17:00
Website:
http://www.easst.umk.pl/