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- Convenors:
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Saurabh Arora
(University of Sussex)
Misha Velthuis (Amsterdam University College)
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- Format:
- Traditional Open Panel
Short Abstract
What political relations are observable (or obscured) between racial supremacy movements and techno-scientific practices as well as associated public policy processes, aimed at realising resilient, sustainable and just futures through modern sciences and technologies in the Global South and North?
Description
In recent decades, the world has witnessed the clamorous rise of white supremacy and resonating political movements like Hindutva and Bolsonarismo. Often addressed using terms such as authoritarian populism, the far-right, or even fascism, many of those movements have managed to win elections through associated political parties. They have been running some of the world’s most powerful national and regional governments, while building alliances with corporate behemoths. Yet, beyond some discussions of border security, social media and post-truth politics, the co-constitution of modern scientific and technological innovations with movements for racial supremacy has been neglected in STS.
Many critical questions thus require further attention, particularly in relation to the building of ostensibly resilient and just futures in the face of today’s daunting sustainability challenges. We welcome conceptual-empirical contributions addressing the following questions (but definitely not limited to them):
What relations are observable (or obscured) between racial supremacy movements and public policy practices aiming to realise resilient and sustainable futures through modern sciences and technologies in the Global South and North?
How are modern techno-sciences for building resilient futures constituted by entanglements between state power, masculinist movements (eg: the online manosphere) and/or religious extremism (eg: evangelicals behind Bolsonaro, violent Hindu nationalist groups supporting Modi)?
How is intensifying (digital) securitisation of European and North American borders, being coproduced with anti-migration movements attached to Trumpism, French National Rally, Reform UK, Alternative for Germany (AfD) and the like?
What kinds of (military) sciences and (surveillance) technologies are being developed and deployed to crush dissent and control protest movements against alignments between state security apparatuses and racial supremacy movements?
In what ways are societal polarisations associated with racial supremacies, being enacted/negotiated in gendered practices of techno-scientific development for building resilience, across laboratories, design studios, makerspaces, users’ associations, hospitals, and so on?