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Science from Elsewhere: Thinking from Where we Think - II

Fri, September 6, 9:45 to 11:15am, Sheraton New Orleans Hotel, Floor: Five, Grand Ballroom E

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Does it matter from where we do and think science? How might the conditions of our em/placement inform what we mean by “science”? How does where we do and think affect how and what we do and think? We welcome submissions that engage with minority and/or non-western STS practices and their specificity of place. We aim to make place affective and disruptive in our thinking (Stewart 2017). Topics might include questions of scientific legitimacy and legibility; speculative onto-epistemic openings that make us think with other beings, entities, and forces which may not be legible as “science” in all places; or improvisations and innovations for doing science and/or STS under conditions of scarcity, uncertainty, or precarity. In these questions, the stakes are both (cosmo)political and scholarly: they demand a rethinking of not only what we do and think, but how we do and think, and with whom/what (de la Cadena 2017). We recognize that our knowledge practices are inseparable from their entanglement with states, post/colonial histories, political-economic conditions, and the ways these cohere in bodies, including our bodies as STS scholars. We seek papers that are troubled by that which exceeds “science” and yet resides at its limit, and that play with other forms of speculative thinking (Haraway 2016, McLean 2017, Perez Bustos 2015, Puig de la Bellacasa 2012, Stengers 2003). This panel engages themes of the 4S 2019 NOLA conference by asking how science and STS from elsewhere interrupt both science-as-usual and STS-as-usual

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