Panel Session 55. National Identities and Nationalism in Transnational Science and Technology during the 20th century
Although
the emerging post Cold War globalization process seemed to undermine
the legitimacy of national categories, nationalisms and national
identities are far from being surpassed. This is part of a broader
public concern regarding the interactions between national identities,
cultures, and transnational relations in a new global order. Similarly,
History of Science, STS, and Policy Studies have expanded new questions
about the means and mechanisms that produce, transfer, and transform
expert knowledge within communities and political systems at different
scales.
Even when the history of science and technology, and
national identities studies have increased their production and scope,
there are still several questions on the connections and tensions
between these disciplines. On the one hand, nations were considered
projects in which societies articulated their vision of future. On the
other, national identities were the places where individuals identified
themselves collectively, and developed a sense of belonging. During the
20th century, within these national projects, science and
technology helped nations come closer to that imagined future, and at
the same time, nations linked themselves with processes of international
and transnational scientific circulation.
Historiography has not
traditionally addressed the links between science and technology, and
nation and nationalism, STS have much to say regarding how development
in science and technology has questioned, enhanced, promoted or
criticized the persistence of national identities within transnational
relations.
This panel examines theoretical, methodological, and
epistemological problems combining History and STS with the dynamic
notion of nations and national identities, to discuss how transnational
science and technology have been entangled within processes of nation
building during the 20th century.
Abstracts must be submitted no later than February 1, 2018.
Further information can be found at https://4s2018sydney.org.
For submissions: https://4s2018sydney.org/call-for-papers-open-panels/, Panel #55. You may email Barbara Silva (bsilvaa@uc.cl),
organizer of this panel session, with questions. Please note that The
Society for Social Studies of Science has final say over acceptances and
panel organization.
Contact Info:
Barbara Silva, Universidad Católica de Chile
Contact Email: bsilvaa@uc.cl