EASST 2012 - Designing Global Health Technologies in the Global South - 4S/EASST Annual Meeting

CfP Designing Global Health Technologies in the Global South - 4S/EASST Annual Meeting in Copenhagen, October 17-20, 2012" in the group Call for Papers on Open Anthropology Cooperative

Panel Organisers: Richard Rottenburg (rottenburg-AT-eth.mpg.de) and Norman Schräpel (norman.schraepel-AT-ethnologie.uni-halle.de) - Institute of Anthropology and Philosophy, University of Halle (Germany).
In many respects the Global South is often seen as an implicit recipient of science and technology from the West. This perspective is reductive and easily challenged when undertaking careful empirical analyses of technologies and ideas that circulate globally. Global Health is one instance of such a socio-technical assemblage resulting out of the circulation of medical standards, blueprints of know-how, therapeutic techniques, drugs, infrastructures, medical data, etc. However, it is less easy to establish how this global assemblage is put together and what role actors from the Global South play in this context. What exactly does it mean to say that socio-technical agencements of global dimensions are produced in interstitial spaces? This panel calls for papers that follow the diverse involvements of individual and collective actors from the Global South in the processes of design and shaping technologies of global health. We invite papers that follow the ways of how these technologies are established, how they operate and how they mediate the production of scientific, social and economic orders and material infrastructures in and by the Global South. The translation processes of existing technologies (e.g. by unfolding inscriptions and revealing the practices that emerge out of these), the role of experiments (historically and recently) such as clinical trials, or the need to act in settings where resources are limited are a few topics we would like to address.
Please submit your paper directly through the conference website (http://4sonline.org/meeting) and chose Open Panel #5 (Designing global health technologies in the Global South) on the submission form: http://convention2.allacademic.com/one/ssss/4s12/ . Deadline: March 11, 2012.