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- Convenors:
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Mael Goumri
(INSA Rennes Université de Rennes)
Julie Marques (INSA)
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- Format:
- Traditional Open Panel
Short Abstract
While justice-centered concepts (design, epistemic and environmental justice) have gained prominence in STS, this panel examines conditions enabling alternative technological futures inclusive of minoritised populations, resisting extractivist, technosolutionist hegemonic modes of technology-making.
Description
Dominant discourses on technology and its futures – shaped by Big Tech infrastructures, solutionist imaginaries, and the extractivist logics of capitalism – promote a linear vision of progress. They often claim an absence of alternatives to a hegemonic model of innovation and naturalise socio-technical trajectories that reproduce structures of power, race, class, gender and coloniality, while marginalising other ways of making, conceiving, and living with technologies. To address these logics, justice-centred concepts have gained prominence in STS. They advocate a just transition (Jasanoff, 2018) and greater attention to minoritised populations in the development of technologies (Castro-Gómez, 2005; Criado Perez, 2019). Concepts such as environmental justice (Bullard, 1993; Fortun, 2001), care (Tronto, 1993), design justice (Costanza-Chock, 2020; Escobar, 2018) or epistemic justice (Barad, 2012; Fricker, 2007) underscore that (in)justice is produced through how science and technology are made. Therefore, analysing injustice and engaging communities can help resist violence (Nixon, 2011) and build fairer futures.
This panel proposes to centre social, ecological, and epistemic justice not as an ethical add-on, but as a condition of possibility for alternative technological futures. Echoing “More than Now”, it invites a shift of perspective: to approach technology through minoritised narratives, stifled futures, aborted or emerging bifurcations, and to treat justice not as a distant horizon, but as a guiding orientation. More broadly, it opens a theoretical debate on links between STS practices and justice issues.
We invite contributions that explore:
- forgotten or disqualified technological histories;
- studies of ignorance producing injustice and violence;
- practices of counter-design, resistance, commons-building, and technical care;
- epistemologies and socio-technical alliances that allow us to imagine and enact desirable, situated, and just futures, beyond technological TINA.
We welcome proposals that not only analyse what is, but also surface what could have been and what might still become.