Del 31 de agosto al 3 de septiembre en la ciudad de Barcelona, España, se realizará el congreso conjunto de la Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S) y la European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST). El IESCT-UNQ coordinará el panel: "Engaged STS for inclusive development: exploring concepts, practices, networks, and policies towards inclusive and sustainable futures", que tendrá lugar el 2 y 3 de septiembre.
4S / EASST Conference – Barcelona 2016
Panel: Engaged STS for inclusive development: exploring concepts, practices, networks, and policies towards inclusive and sustainable futures
Convenors: Gabriela Bortz and Hernan Thomas (IESCT-UNQ)
Short Abstract: This session aims to problematise knowledge and technology production alternatives towards inclusive and sustainable development, building solutions for community development and to the extended deficit of access to basic goods, through empirical analysis, theoretical reflection, and policy debate.
Long Abstract: In recent years a consensus has grown between scholars, civil society actors, and policy-makers about the role that Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) may play in the construction of solutions to social exclusion problems, providing alternative pathways for inclusive and sustainable development. This interest has spread both in the global north and the global south, being promoted by international institutions like OECD, IDB, World Bank, IDRC, and some national governments in Latin America and Asia, who have implemented inclusive innovation programmes and supporting pre-existing initiatives.
However, despite this general agreement, what is innovation for inclusive and sustainable development is still as a contested ground between different definitions, approaches, visions, knowledge framings, and institutional and technological strategies, operating through heterogeneous networks of social movements, R&D units, international aid agencies, NGOs, governments, unions, and firms. The STS field constitutes a fruitful space to problematize knowledge and technology production alternatives and to contribute with empirical analysis, theoretical reflection, and policy debate.
Interested in addressing institutional and policy analysis, processes and organization, as well studies on artefactual design and production, this track welcomes papers on the following issues:
•Inclusive and sustainable development, concepts and visions: Innovation vs. technological change. Inclusive innovation as outcome and as process. Palliative initiatives vs. systemic approaches.
•Knowledge production and the politics of knowledge: grassroots and informal knowledge, material and cognitive practices. R&D agendas, knowledge dialog and negotiation.
•STI policies: promotion and evaluation processes, explicit and implicit agendas. Institutional strategies. Decision making processes and multi-actor participation.
PROGRAM
Session 1: Grassroots, participation and learning processes
Chair: Gabriela Bortz (IESCT-UNQ, Argentina)
Discussant: Milena Serafim (UNICAMP, Brazil)
• Exploring knowledge sustainability: strategies of rural grassroot organizations as change agents, Alejandro Balanzo (University of Twente)
• Grassroots innovation in Russian context: prospects and implications, Olga Ustyuzhantseva (Tomsk State National Research University)
• How do actors construct their own tools? Flore Guiffault (School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences)
• Opening the 'black box' of participation in technologies for inclusive development: analyzing user involvement, techno-cognitive dynamics and decision making processes Hernan Thomas, Gabriela Bortz (IESCT-UNQ / CONICET)
Session 2: Policy and decision making processes
Chair: Gabriela Bortz (IESCT-UNQ, Argentina)
Discussant: Olga Ustyuzhantseva (Tomsk State National Research University, Russia)
• Atoms for Development: Are nanotechnologies capable of generating dynamics of social inclusion? Tomás Carrozza (Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata)
• Perceptions of stakeholders about Brazil's National STI conference, Milena Serafim (University of Campinas - UNICAMP)
Session 3: Knowledge and practices for community development
Chair: Gabriela Bortz (IESCT-UNQ, Argentina)
Discussant: Tomás Carrozza (UNMdP, Argentina)
• Engineering By Other Means: How the marginalized knowledges of low-income engineers contribute to sustainable community development, Jessica Smith, Juan Lucena (Colorado School of Mines)
• The citizen participation in the case of GMO in Brazil. Maria Luísa Nozawa Ribeiro (Universidade Federal de São Carlos)
• Disruptive technologies and sustainable community development: A communicative ecologies perspective, Jo Tacchi, Amalia Sabiescu (RMIT University)
• Ethical dilemmas in wind-farm planning. On scale, norms and value-sets, Katinka Johansen (DTU- Technical University of Denmark)
