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- Convenor:
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Matteo Tarantino
(Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano)
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- Format:
- Traditional Open Panel
Short Abstract
This panel explores care practices at the intersection of health and environmental data across multiple scales. We examine how data infrastructures embed care as material practice mediated by sociotechnical apparatuses. Topics include data justice;exclusion/inclusion; communication as care practice.
Description
This panel proposes a critical exploration of practices and technologies that emerge at the intersection between health and environmental data, interrogating how technologies of knowledge and communication operate across scales from the individual body to planetary ecosystems. The increasing datafication of health and the environment entails an examination of which data are collected, who cares for these data, how they are communicated, and what forms of responsibility and attention they require. The proliferation of data infrastructures connecting public health and environmental monitoring network raises questions about the care practices embedded within these technologies. Following the tradition of feminist technoscience studies care emerges not only as a moral disposition, but as a situated, material practice that runs through such entities as wearable sensors, epidemiological registries, algorithmic platforms, and environmental monitoring networks.
We invite empirical contributions, methodological reflections, and conceptual interventions that address the "matters of care" in these technoscientific spaces, where the maintenance and repair of our worlds (from bodies to communities to environments) requires continuous attention and political commitment. Potential topics include:
1) Access to technologies of care; data practices reproduce or challenge existing inequalities in health and environmental vulnerability;
2) Forms of exclusion, extraction, or violence perpetrated in the name of care; conversely, how to move towards more just and inclusive approaches to health and environmental data governance.
3) Communication as a care practice, for instance the translation of environmental and health data into actionable knowledge; trust-building with vulnerable communities, the roles of visualization, storytelling, and participatory methods.