Oh, man, it's happening. There was an #STS@sts article (or book?) that I really thought was Maria Kaika but very apparently isn't about three phases of modernist water management—something like ascendant, triumphant, and chastened, or some such.
I went to look it up tonight in the old references and I cannot find it.
@MichaelTBacon@sts Citation for above link Reza Balali, M., Keulartz, J., & Korthals, M. (2009). Reflexive water management in arid regions: The case of Iran. Environmental Values, 18(1), 91-112.
I am looking for inspiration for the introductory chapter (in Swedish: Kappa) of my compilation thesis. Any recommendation for nice compilation PhD theses in STS, sociology, info studies or adjacent fields to have a look at?
Please send them my way!
@Ch_Hogberg@sts We have a lovely Thesis table at @tip_itu you'd be super welcome to visit & browse, some of which are available at https://en.itu.dk/Research/PhD-Programme/PhD-Defences try Simy Kaur Gahoonia (2024), Andy Lautrup (2022), Ester Fritsch (2022) or John Mark Burnett (2022) for some awesome* STSy intros/kappas.
*proud supervisor bias for Andy, Ester & John, proud colleague bias for Simy!
📢 Celebrating that "Caring for Methods: 'Care-Ful Method Practice' through Methodography" by @i_ngli & I has been published today! 🎉
📖 In the chapter we advocate for methodography as a genre of care-ful interrogation of method practice in #STSethnography.
📙 The chapter is part of a beautiful collection concerning "Ethical and Methodological Dilemmas in Social Science Interventions" edited by @DorisLinnea & Niels Christian Mossfeldt Nickelsen.
P300: Infrastructures, crises and transformation, hosted by Nina Amelung (Universidade de Lisboa), Huub Dijstelbloem (University of Amsterdam), @jhpassoth Silvan Pollozek
We are hosting a panel in the #STSGraz24 conference's #OpenScience Track: "Hack the Hackathon: Challenges of Inclusion, Participation, and Fairness.
The conference is taking place May 6 - 8 2024 and, of course, in Graz, Austria.
You can find our call for abstracts (and others) here: https://stsconf.tugraz.at/calls/sessions-in-open-science/
@PeterKahlert and colleagues are hosting a panel in the #STSGraz24 conference's #OpenScience Track: "Hack the Hackathon: Challenges of Inclusion, Participation, and Fairness."
@inquiline oh, that makes me think of standards, which can become valuable because others are using it. Unfortunately, no specific reading suggestion. Sorry.
Some days most of what you get done is spend the afternoon racking your brains for a reference, but then you finally get it:
Latina/o/e technoscience: Labor, race, and gender in cybernetics and computing by Iván Chaar López
The article follows closely the role of Arturo Rosenblueth in development of cybernetics & of Mexican women workers in computer semiconductor assembly.. Latina/o/es as unaccounted entities in the infrastructural assemblage of cybernetics
We are hosting a panel in the #STSGraz24 conference's #OpenScience Track: "Hack the Hackathon: Challenges of Inclusion, Participation, and Fairness.
The conference is taking place May 6 - 8 2024 and, of course, in Graz, Austria.
Did someone on here say they were thinking or reading about a connection btwn the "user turn" in STS and neoliberalism, or did I hallucinate that? @sts#STS
@inquiline@sts hmm, I cannot even immediately think of much #STS research that is informed by in depth engagements with #neoliberalism. Is that a blindness on my side? I think of Hess and Pellizzoni. Any other authors?
@i_ngli@inquiline Hu's Prehistory of the Cloud is basically an exploration of how the individual user (in data and computer science and practice) evolved through neoliberalism. Then there's plenty of publications on ecological matters and how individual responsibility was crafted to shift accountability. Like Josh's work on e-waste. @jlepawsky
Not sure if this stuff is a fit in this case though.
Thank you #PublicBooks & Ryan Boyd for this very thoughtful review of #OilBeach!! So honored 😊
"[Dunbar-Hester] makes no promises about the future, and she is not in the business of bromides. But when your economic system is suicidal—when the ordinary business of procuring goods and services is boiling the planet to death—there is no better basis for that than hopeful solidarity, and no option but action"
I don't think that's quite it. Sorry to pick on what seem like minor points, but since I'm writing abstractly anyways I might as well try to communicate the abstract points:
Imagine that a lot of ecosystem resources could be used to make a single big diamond. Trading that diamond from one place to another would be relatively small scale in terms of how much material was moved, and could be done through a tiny port or through no port. The real problem is how much ecosystemic resource went into the trade. On the other hand, large scale trade in reusable, charged solar batteries on solar powered ships would not necessarily be problematic even if it was large scale.
We always want people/communities to assert control along the supply chain, but it should also be pointed out that no people and no community that has the power to do this kind of thing has ever done substantially better than any other. Capitalist states, Communist states, social democratic states basically all have the same record. Smaller groups maybe (?) do better given how much power they have but there is no real indication that they wouldn't do the same if they had more control.
I wrote about what people tend to do in the linked blog post below: I basically believe in "infrastructuralism" i.e. people end up using whatever infrastructure is available. Decisions about what kind of infrastructure to use are therefore decisions whether to build or debuild infrastructure, not really decisions about how to use it once built..
"Drawing on fieldwork in Costa Rica and a transnational feminist digital organization, Shokooh Valle explores the ways that feminist activists, using digital technologies as well as a collective politics that prioritize solidarity and pleasure, advance a new feminist technopolitics"
"The physical assets at the core of the internet, the warehouses that store the cloud’s data and interlink global networks, are owned... by commercial real estate barons who compete with malls and property storage empires. .. This history makes clear that the internet was never an exogenous shock to capitalist social relations, but rather a touchstone example of an economic system increasingly ruled by asset owners like landlords."
"traces a counter-history of modern environmentalism from the 1960s to the present day. It focuses on claims concerning land, labour and social reproduction arising at important moments in the history of
environmentalism made by feminist, anti-colonial, Indigenous, workers’ and agrarian movements..."