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Critical STS scholars have exposed “lab life” as a key arena of agentive relations and as sites of more than technical assemblages (Clark and Fujimura 1992, Traweek 1998). Social scientists have also found the form of “a lab” generative for organizing collaborations and essential to gaining institutional recognition and funding. We seek to move beyond the important work of first generation lab studies that demonstrated the political nature of (bench and social) science to place the studying of labs alongside the establishment of qualitative STS labs-- ones that draw on traditional laboratory models yet incorporate alternative frameworks of inclusion and non-extractive epistemologies. Our focus is this dual nature of labs as systems of relations.
Extending Roy’s (2018) incitement for feminist laboratory methods into the work of qualitative labs, we ask two central questions: what makes a qualitative lab a lab, and what are its methods of good relations? Following Liboiron et al. (2017), how do labs relate to, or materialize in, particular methodologies, ethnographic productions and collaborations?
Why Not a Garden? Confronting the Praxis of Qualitative Lab Work - Megan Tracy, James Madison University; Rebecca Howes-Mischel, James Madison University, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Coding the RUSTlab: Discussing, Writing And Living An STS Lab - Ryoko Asai, Ruhr-Universität Bochum; Susana Carmona Castillo, Maastricht University; Olga Galanova, Ruhr-Universität Bochum; Raphael Hemme, Ruhr-Universität Bochum; Laura Kocksch, Ruhr University Bochum; Stefan Laser, Siegen University; Julie Sascia Mewes, Ruhr-Universität Bochum; Abigail Nieves Delgado, Wageningen University; Estrid Sørensen, Ruhr University Bochum
Creating a Lab For Diverse Students at Predominantly White Undergraduate Institution (PWUI) - Sean Bruna, Western Washington University
STS Labs in STEM Spaces: An Undergraduate Perspective - Alexa Osborn Houck; Courtney Forberg, James Madison University