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Trans/national Politics of Race, Racism, and Anti-Racism

Fri, August 31, 9:00 to 10:30am, ICC, E5.10

Session Submission Type: Open Panel

Abstract

Race and racism emerge in distinctive locally-specific ways in particular sites with particular histories, and diverse forms of antiracist knowledge-making projects and political movements are also highly local. At the same time, structures of inequality and their contestation are also intertwined with both global histories of colonization and with contemporary transnational liberation movements. What can scholars in science and technology studies contribute to understanding how ideas of race, racism, and antiracism travel within and between nations? This open panel welcomes a broad range of approaches to this question. Papers might explore how scientists and social justice advocates mobilize data about the impact of racism for trans/national antiracist projects; how scientists articulate their own experiences of racial inequality and their ideas about possibilities of change; how nationalizing and globalizing rhetorics of whiteness are used to justify oppression; the future of identity politics for health in shifting political landscapes in specific countries and transnationally; the roles of pharmaceuticals and other products of global capital in ameliorating/exacerbating inequality; the ways that pseudo/scientific racial narratives operate within and beyond scientific spheres; and more. This open panel invites papers that make empirical and theoretical contributions to the intersectional, interdisciplinary viewpoints of how race, racism, and antiracism are at stake in politics within and across national scales. It seeks to generate new networks and conversations among STS scholars to interrogate these vital questions.

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