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- Convenors:
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Janine Hauer
(Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg)
Stefan Böschen (Käte Hamburger Kolleg Cultures of Research, RWTH Aachen University)
Joerg Niewoehner (Technical University of Munich)
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- Format:
- Traditional Open Panel
Short Abstract
The panel seeks to take effects & pre-conditions of chemo-industrial processes as starting points to illuminate on how different actors within the sector address current challenges. This is based on empirical research in & with chemistry, material sciences & related professions and institutions.
Description
The impacts of roughly 120 years of chemo-industrial production on bodies and ecosystems at various scales are increasingly being realized, mapped and critiqued. Studies focusing on the (harmful) effects of mass-synthesis and molecular-planetary alterations of bodies and ecosystems have contributed valuable sources for localized resistance and have fostered attention to questions of uneven distribution, regulation, protection and compensation, as well as long-term systemic effects of chemo-molecular interventions into the earth system. Recognizing the value of these works this panel seeks to take the various effects as well as the structural preconditions of chemo-industrial processes as a starting point to illuminate on how different actors within the chemo-industrial sector adress contemporary challenges. We are therefore inviting contribution that speak to the following questions:
o How, where and when are what practices and technologies of synthesizing and modifying the material foundations of living being re-thought and re-made and (how) does this address their various and potentially harmful consequences?
o How, where and when are residues and remnants of chemo-industrial processes being dealt with?
o What are the specific conditions and considerations that en- or disable and regulate certain technologies and practices?
Moreover we are interested in the specific modes and relations of doing research in and with the chemo-industrial field:
o What and how do STS contribute to current shifts and transformations in the chemo-industrial sector?
o What chances and challenges have you encountered in specific research contexts and how have you come to address them with what effects?