101 - Section on Science, Knowledge and Technology Invited Session. The Politics of Knowledge: Technoscientific Dimensions of Political Life

Session Submission Type: Invited Session

Abstract

Knowledge, expertise, and technologies are built into the inner workings of modern political processes, including practices of governance and modes of activist resistance. At the same time, scientific and technological developments are often the source and object of heated political controversies. Presentations by invited panelists in this session treat the “politics of knowledge” as a key component of everyday political life.

Sub Unit

• Section Invited

Session Organizer

• Steven Epstein, Northwestern University

Presider

• Janet K. Shim, University of California-San Francisco

Individual Presentations

• Water, Technoscience, and Regimes of Governance in California - Patrick Eamonn Carroll, University of California-Davis

• Janus DNA: Race and Reconciliation after the Genome - Alondra Nelson, Columbia University

• Wellness and the Embodied Normalization of Neoliberalism - Kelly Moore, Loyola University-Chicago

• Pressed for Time: How Technological Acceleration Came to Signify the Zeitgeist - Judy Wajcman, London School of Economics and Political Science

Discussant

• Scott Frickel, Brown University