[News] Call for Abstracts: Emotions at Work

[Alev Coban]

Liebe Liste,

ich wünsche euch allen ein wunderbares neues Jahr!

Hiermit möchte ich euch auf ein Panel von mir und Klara-Aylin Wenten zu 
*Affekt und Arbeit *auf der EASST (der European Association for the 
Study of Science and Technology) aufmerksam machen**(s.u.).**Die 
Deadline für einen Abstract ist am 01.02. - wir freuen uns über 
spannende Beiträge und auch darüber, wenn ihr diesen Call for 
Submissions an Interessierte weiterleitet.

Es gibt auch noch andere Panels, die der feministischen STS zugeordnet 
sind: https://easst2022.org/panelresults.asp

Herzliche Grüße,

Alev

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Alev Coban
Department of Human Geography
Goethe-University Frankfurt
Theodor-W.-Adorno-Platz 6
60323 Frankfurt am Main
E-Mail: coban at geo.uni-frankfurt.de
https://www.uni-frankfurt.de/63309600/01_portrait 
<http://www.uni-frankfurt.de/49220809/coban>

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/Call for Submissions
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***Panel: *

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*Emotions at Work: The Affective Drivers of Technoscientific Workplaces 
and Futures*
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/Session coordinators///

Alev Coban (Goethe-University Frankfurt)

Klara-Aylin Wenten (Technical University of Munich)

/Global Conference/

*/EASST 2022 - The Politics of Technoscientific Futures - 06-09 July 
2022, Madrid
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deadline:*February 01, 2022 *(via: https://easst2022.org/openpanel.asp)


This session will engage with emotions at work.On the one hand, we seek 
to explore the different emotions felt at workplaces of knowledge 
production and technology development. On the other hand, the session 
foregrounds how emotions work in these settings. We observe that current 
phenomena at technoscientific workplaces such as agility, rapid 
prototyping or the entrepreneurialization of tech development enwrap 
workers in affective language and practices about promising 
technoscientific futures. Feelings such as passion, joy and enthusiasm 
in (agile) companies, makerspaces, research labs, home offices and 
platform enterprises illustrate how workers become responsibilized to 
engage emotionally with their work, often having the aim to drive 
national, institutional and personal progress.

In this context, feminist (STS) scholarship highlights the importance of 
asking what emotions do. They point our attention to the emotional side 
of daily life as well as the discursive dimension, power-laden 
structures, and representations that drive collective affect (Ahmed 
2004). Affective attachments to tech work normalize its often-precarious 
norms and scholars therefore argue that workers’ emotions are entangled 
with corporate objectives and neoliberal logics (Cockayne 2016; Davies 
2017; Gregg 2011). Thus, emotions at workare characterized by 
exploitative dynamics of (affective) oppression, control and 
invisiblized devalued labour (Amrute 2019; Crain et al. 2016; Resch et 
al. 2021). However, attending to the sensations at workplaces, the 
involved bodies, emotions and identities also uncovers solidary feelings 
and care work, which open up new paths for emancipatory ambitions (Coban 
and Wenten 2020).

This panel seeks to extend such scholarship by exploring the 
intersection between affect, work and tech/knowledge production. We 
invite papers (and also other forms of input) that discuss the 
ambivalent feelings of technoscientific work, their risks and 
challenges, but also the political opportunities for emancipatory 
technoscientific futures. Potential foci include:


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    The emotional investment and bodily sensations of technoscientific
    progress

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    Socio-material intimacies between workers, materials, technologies
    and workplaces

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    Feeling in/equalities in the workplace

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    Affect as a driver of care, emancipatory moments or resistance at
    technoscientific workplaces

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    The historicity and context-specificity of emotions at work

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    The increasing affectivity of knowledge work through pitching,
    hackathons, user-centered design, etc.

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    The in/visibilization of care and emotions by AI, automation
    technology, workplace standardization, etc.


  See also: https://easst2022.org/IMAGENES/panelsResultados/024.pdf

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