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Welcome to submit your abstract today!
/ Helena Pettersson
Call for papers!
Open Panel:
Autocensura in Academia and STS — Transformations, negotiations and practices of
knowledge production. Methods, paradigms and theoretical challenges
The EASST-4S conference in 2024 Amsterdam: Making and Doing Transformations
Please submit your abstract through the website:
https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/easst-4s2024/p/14195
Panel organizers: Helena Pettersson & Izabela Wagner
Panel Chair: Prof. Sharon Traweek, UCLA
Short Panel Abstract:
This panel focus on autocensura in relation to transformations, negotiations and practices
of scientific knowledge production and STS. The papers in this panel highlights
autocensura as a social and cultural phenomenon, and its part of and impact on methods,
paradigms and theoretical challenges.
Long Abstract:
One of the most classic examples of the limitation of academic freedom is the censorship
in spaces controlled by authoritarian governments. However, censorship is also practiced
within research communities, and also, among single researchers. In this panel, we focus
on transformations, negotiations and practices of knowledge production in relationship to
STS and the phenomenon autocensura (latin term) (Wagner 2020; 2022, Pettersson 2016).
We invite papers that among other topics address the following areas:
Descriptions and analysis of autocensura practices (in various fields - social sciences,
natural sciences and humanities)
Spaces of autocensura - the areas covered by silences (topic covered by it)
Relationship between the status of the researcher and the autocensura practice (precarity
and career stage)
The dynamic of political context and autocensura practices
Autocensura in the past - case studies (collective or individual biographies)
Symbolic violence of autocensura
Gender, ethnic, age, family, migration situation, and class factors regarding autocensura
practices
Relation to mentors and peers as a frame for autocensura practices.
Autocensura is a sociological phenomenon, part of the process of knowledge construction.
Ideally, the most critical findings are included in academic texts. However, an
author/researcher may decide not to publish results (or part of it), despite the high
quality of the data and/or the high relevance of the conclusions. (Wagner, 2020: 133).
Autocensura is practiced by researchers who are working in various disciplines and in
various political contexts (not only under authoritarian regimes) (Wagner, 2022). They may
withhold knowledge that might produce transformations, and thus revive questions regarding
knowledge production, roles, and commitments, for the research community and society.
In this panel we are eager to focus on the process, its stages, contexts, dynamics,
interactions between the author(s) and their milieu, and its impacts on knowledge
production, and its impact on methods, paradigms and theoretical challenges.
If you have any questions, please contact the panel organizers:
Associate Prof. Helena Pettersson
helena.pettersson@umu.se<mailto:helena.pettersson@umu.se> Umeå University,
Sweden
Prof. Izabela Wagner izabela.wagner@u-paris.fr<mailto:izabela.wagner@u-paris.fr>
Université Paris Cité, France
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Helena Pettersson Ph.D.
Deputy Departmental Chair
Head of Research Associate Professor
Dept. of Culture & Media Studies
Humanisthuset
Umeå University
SE 901 87 Umeå
Sweden
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