50266 - New Directions and Emerging Studies of Politics in Science and Technology: Changes in Governance, Political Economy, Labor, and Work (Co-sponsored by Section on Political Sociology)

Description

Studies of political economy are experiencing a revival across sociology, with researchers shedding new light on interactions and contestations between capital, labor, and state actors. Broadly, this scholarship explains how social actors secure and institutionalize power over agendas, resources, and practices. While sociologists of science, knowledge, and technology have historically attended to such dynamics at the local, national, and global levels, recent research and events have revitalized our understanding of the interplay between science, technology, the economy, and the state across locales, scales, and historical periods.

This session builds on this renewed interest and invites work that bridges the study of political economy (broadly construed) with analyses of science, knowledge, and technology. Potential topics include, but are not limited to: how public and private actors shape the governance of science and technology; how structures of capital (e.g. public funding, venture capital, private equity) impact processes of scientific discovery or technological innovation; how labor movements influence technology development and change; and how workers reshape, resist, or adopt technologies of management.

Sub Unit

• Section on Science, Knowledge, and Technology / New Directions and Emerging Studies of Politics in Science and Technology: Changes in Governance, Political Economy, Labor, and Work (Co-sponsored by Section on Political Sociology)

Cosponsor

• Section on Political Sociology

Presider

• Mariana Craciun, Tulane University

Individual Presentations

• Carbon Time Machines: The Techno-politics of Carbon Capture and Silicon Valley's Climate Future - Andrew Jaeger, University of California-Berkeley

• Fair Use or Copyright? Navigating Sociolegal Discourses between AI Companies and Creative Workers - Hayoung Seo, Vanderbilt University; Jenny L. Davis, Vanderbilt University

• Knowledge and Power: The Political Economy of Postwar University Military Research - Jasmine Cha Sausedo, Johns Hopkins University

• Knowledge brokers in the gaps of globalization: the P-value politics of global health beyond the WHO - Clay Davis, Northwestern University

• Do Moral Agency and Bureaucratic Discretion Survive Black-Box Algorithms? Evidence from Big Data Taxation in China - Yingyao Wang, University of Virginia

Session Organizers

• Benjamin Shestakofsky, Cornell University

• Janet Vertesi, Princeton University

• Mariana Craciun, Tulane University