The Regulative Capacity of Knowledge Objects: Opening the Black Box of Knowledge Governance
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The Regulative Capacity of Knowledge Objects: Opening the Black Box of Knowledge Governance
Interdisciplinary International Graduate Summer School
Donostia‐San Sebastián, Spain
28 July - 1 August 2014
The
Post-Graduate Program in Philosophy, Science and Values (University of
the Basque Country UPV/EHU, and National Autonomous University of
Mexico, UNAM) and the Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems
Analysis (KIT/ITAS) will be holding an International Summer School for
PhD students. The Summer School is part of the UPV/EHU XXXII Summer
Courses and XXV European Courses.
"Knowledge objects" are
peculiar, blurry, constantly unfolding and transforming entities that
increasingly challenge contemporary societies and sciences and our
understanding of knowledge. The knowledge in knowledge objects is always
plural: scientific, public, mundane, interdisciplinary, speculative,
uncertain. It is heterogeneously produced about, with, through or in
them and contributes to their identification, contestation and
transformation. Yet, knowledge objects are also enablers of such
knowledge productions and the societal controversies that go along with
them. This intricate entanglement of knowledge objects and society poses
various normative and regulative challenges for knowledge governance.
The Summer School will deal with those challenges by bringing together
two strands of science and technology studies (STS) which so far haven't
combined: the focus on "knowledge objects" and the perspective of
"knowledge governance".
The starting point of this summer school
is the assumption that knowledge objects are subject and object of
knowledge governance. They create the need for and they enable various
forms of knowledge governance. In a way, this synchrony is a black box
of knowledge governance. The Summer School proposes that this
"governance black box" can be opened by focusing on an extended concept
of knowledge objects and by analyzing their governance dimensions.
For further information and a call for papers:
http://www.ehu.es/es/web/miguelsanchezmazaskatedra/upcoming-events