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<p><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">**with
apologies for cross-posting**<br>
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<p><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"></span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Dear colleagues,</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">We warmly
invite abstract submissions for the open panel '</span><a href="https://www.4sonline.org/31-celebrating-and-critiquing-feminist-inclusion-strategies-in-technoscience-communities/" target="_blank" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" moz-do-not-send="true">Celebrating and Critiquing Feminist
Inclusion Strategies in Technoscience Communities</a><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">', to be held at
the annual 4S meeting this year, between October 6-9. Abstracts
of up to 250 words can be submitted at </span><a href="https://convention2.allacademic.com/one/ssss/ssss21/" target="_blank" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" moz-do-not-send="true">this portal</a><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">, and the
deadline is March 8. Please consider submitting an abstract, and
do spread the word among colleagues and students. We look
forward to reading your submissions!</span><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">
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<span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">The call for
papers is as follows:</span></p>
<div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><b>Celebrating
and Critiquing Feminist Inclusion Strategies in Technoscience
Communities</b><br>
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Em O'Sullivan, University College London; Isha Bhallamudi,
University of California, Irvine; Patricia Peña, University of
Chile, Institute of Image and Communication<br>
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<div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Science and
technology communities come in many forms, from the elite
community of research scientists within the academy to the myriad
grassroots communities that spring up to take direct action on
technology policy issues. Yet despite this wide variation in
technoscience communities, many continue to reproduce gendered
patterns of exclusion visible in science and technology more
broadly.<br>
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This panel provides space for critiquing community practices and
structures of exclusion that contribute to limiting who can
participate in the production of technoscientific knowledge, who
can contribute to decision-making around policy and innovation
priorities, and who gets to design the technological products and
infrastructure that shape our lives. But, in line with this year’s
theme of “good relations”, it also aims to celebrate successful
inclusion strategies, to identify replicable practices for
enhancing community diversity, and to highlight radical
experiments in relationship-building and community development. We
believe that this year, of all years, this celebration of progress
is particularly important.<br>
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We welcome contributions–from any geographical location in the
Global South or North–that explore feminist community inclusion
strategies from a wide range of theoretical approaches. These
could include (but are not limited to): communities of practice;
space and place-making; social field theory; identity theory;
affect theory; participatory design and co-design practices; and
critical making. We also welcome practice-oriented presentations
that are not necessarily based in theory. We particularly welcome
intersectional contributions that look at issues of gender
inclusion/exclusion alongside axes of “race”, ethnicity, class,
(dis)ability, transgender status, sexual identity, etc.<br>
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Contact: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:em.osullivan.15@ucl.ac.uk">em.osullivan.15@ucl.ac.uk</a><br>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-size:10pt;">Em O'Sullivan (they/them)</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-size:10pt;">PhD Student - Gender, Technology, and
Makerspaces<br>
Department of Science and Technology Studies<br>
University College London<br>
<a href="http://freakatoms.co.uk/" target="_blank">http://freakatoms.co.uk/</a><br>
@freakatoms</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-size:10pt;">Latest article: <a class="OWAAutoLink" href="http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-12-makerspaces-and-institutions/practitioner-reflections/excellence-in-the-maker-movement/">"Excellence
in the maker movement", <em>Journal of Peer Production, </em>Issue
12, 2018</a><br>
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