Science, Knowledge, and Technology Open Call Paper Session (Co-Sponsored by Global and Transnational Sociology Section)

Session Submission Type: Paper Session (90 minute)

Description

This session is jointly sponsored by the Science, Knowledge & Technology (SKAT) and Global and Transnational Sociology (GATS) sections. This panel examines how science, technology, and knowledge production are reconfigured under conditions of global uncertainty. We invite scholarship that explores how social, political, and economic uncertainties impact knowledge production globally. Papers may address a range of topics, including, but not limited to: contestation of climate knowledge, counter-expertise in vaccination and gender-affirming care debates; shifting institutional mandates and best practices on knowledge production; cuts to U.S. research funding, services, and foreign aid; visa regimes and scientific mobility/immobility; and AI infrastructures and development. This joint panel, co-sponsored by the Science, Knowledge, and Technology (SKAT) Section and the Global and Transnational Sociology (GATS) Section, welcomes submissions from diverse theoretical and methodological perspectives, particularly those that consider knowledge production through a transnational lens.

Sub Unit

• Science, Knowledge, and Technology Section / Science, Knowledge, and Technology Open Call Paper Session (Co-Sponsored by Global and Transnational Sociology Section)

Cosponsor

• Global and Transnational Sociology Section

Presider

• Xiaogao Zhou, Bryn Mawr College

Individual Presentations

• Relational risk perceptions: How different stakeholders perceive the future of gene drive technologies - Amy Zhou, Barnard College

• Scholar Activism from the Right: Conservative Scientists Fighting Against Abortion and Environmentalism Within the Academy - Michael Stambolis-Ruhstorfer, Université Toulouse 2 Jean Jaurès

• Shared Risk and Institutional Alignment in the Global Structure of Scholarly Collaboration - Ke Minh Lam, North Carolina State University; Andrew P. Davis, North Carolina State University

• Strategic Occidentalism: The Geopolitics of Relational Authority in Chinese Psychoanalysis - Xi Wang, Northwestern University

• The epistemic origins of the nation-state - Daniel Scott Smith, Duke University

Session Organizers

• Xiaogao Zhou, Bryn Mawr College

• Claire Laurier Decoteau, University of Illinois-Chicago