Handbook of Science and Technology StudiesのCall for Chapter Proposalsについて以下のようにアナウンスがありました。
The editors of the next edition of the Handbook of Science and Technology
Studies invite proposals for chapters to be included in the new Handbook.
This edition of the Handbook is expected to appear in 2016, some nine years
after the last edition. Much has happened during that interval: the
advancement of STS theories and methods, the development of new ideas and
the evolution of long-important themes, the engagement of STS with other
disciplines and with the public sphere. We aim to capture an enduring
snapshot of the ongoing creative activity of STS in the new Handbook,
representing the core theoretical, methodological, and substantive concerns
of the field and situating the field in its intellectual and historical
contexts.
The STS Handbook is one of the most important books that the field produces.
For STS graduate students, the Handbook offers a substantive and significant
introduction to the field as a domain of scholarship, to its core ideas, and
to exciting new areas of research. For scholars in the field, the Handbook
can provide reviews of the key concepts and approaches across a range of
subfields. For scholars in other fields, and for professionals more broadly
in society, the Handbook can present a broad, deep, and nuanced view of STS
scholarship. Our vision in this volume of the Handbook is to address all of
these audiences. Chapter proposals must therefore be written so as to engage
new graduate students in the field as well as more experienced researchers
and professionals.
We are especially interested in soliciting a broad array of contributions to
the Handbook drawing on geographically diverse authors. STS and the
challenges that it confronts are global enterprises, and we invite authors
from all over the world to submit abstracts. We particularly want to
encourage chapter proposals from STS scholars in parts of the world that
have historically been underrepresented in prior STS Handbooks, including
Asia, Latin America, and Africa—and proposals that offer global and/or
comparative perspectives. Strong proposals are likely to include more than
one author and, especially, to bring together authors and perspectives from
across two or more subfields of STS to offer new, synergistic insights. We
expect all chapters to be fully grounded in relevant STS theory and to use
empirical evidence to illuminate key ideas.
We currently plan the Handbook to have five major sections, with 5-10
chapters in each:
Section I. Core Ideas in STS
What are the core ideas that motivate and underpin STS as a dynamic field of
inquiry? In this first section of the Handbook, we focus on the core lines
of thinking that have accompanied and structured the development of STS as a
research field. These chapters should reflect the evolution of debates in
these areas over time. We regard it as essential for students of STS issues
to understand their own field’s history of thinking as one deeply
intertwined with societal change. The chapters should show how ways in which
people decide to live in the world also tie into ways of questioning and/or
reinforcing technoscientific developments, reflect on the impact that
scholarship in these areas has had on multiple levels, and explore why,
today, these ways of thinking about the world remain at the core of STS
thinking. Some chapters that we would like to see include: knowledge as a
social phenomenon; socio-technological systems; the transformation of life;
the construction of ideas and identities; gender and race in science and
technology; expertise and publics; living and working in technoscience;
institutional structures of science and technology; classification and
standardization; co-production of science and politics.
Section II. The Contributions of STS to Enduring Intellectual Problems
What has STS contributed to addressing central questions in the humanities
and social sciences? We believe that STS has much to say to its neighbor
disciplines, and we aim for this section of the Handbook to help engage
scholars more broadly in the humanities and social sciences. We anticipate
these chapters will offer a valuable entry point for graduate students
entering STS from other disciplines who are looking for ways of connecting
STS scholarship to broader intellectual traditions. In this, we are
cognizant of the fact that many STS researchers are still trained within
other fields of humanistic and social science inquiry. We are looking for
authors to explore, through an STS lens, enduring intellectual issues of
significance in humanistic and social science scholarship. Our desire is to
see authors provide broad and deep reviews that demonstrate the value of STS
scholarship to answering critical questions that concern multiple scholarly
fields. Some areas where we believe STS has made important contributions:
democracy; identity and difference; power and inequality; the body; culture;
place; innovation; design; capitalism.
Section III. Advances in STS Theory and Methods
What are the most exciting areas of emerging scholarship in STS today—and
what might be the most exciting areas tomorrow? In this section, we are
looking explicitly for chapters that describe cutting edge areas of STS
theory and methods. We are especially looking for new areas of research that
meet two criteria: first, they have achieved sufficient attention as to
deserve a thorough review of scholarship and future prospects; and, second,
they are broadly relevant to readers in STS and beyond. The chapters will
contextualize the intellectual histories of the work under review, explain
its core ideas in accessible terms, and offer suggestions for where future
research can continue theoretical advances. Some ideas for potential
chapters include: globalization, the rise of biology, socio-technical
constitutions, imagination; time, temporality, and the future; food and
health; social media and information; vulnerability and resilience; and
emerging technologies.
Section IV. Key Challenges for STS as a Field and a Profession
What challenges does STS face as a field of scholarship struggling for
resources and attention in today’s academic environments? In this section
of the Handbook, we focus on key challenges, including both those that have
emerged for the field of STS in recent years and those that have endured for
decades. For the most part, these challenges are, at once, intellectual and
institutional. They may result from tensions within STS or between STS and
other fields of scholarship. They may result from the transformation of the
university, as the context within which STS scholarship takes place. Or they
may result from broader transformations in science, technology, policy, or
society. Regardless of their source, we see it as important that students of
and in the field understand the kinds of challenges the field confronts
moving forward. The list below is admittedly partial, and we expect to fill
it in through nominated contributions: disciplinarity and
inter-/trans-disciplinarity; the transformation of the university and
academic work; the search for normativity and policy impact; responsible and
ethical science and engineering; engaging STS in the professions.
Section V. STS and 21st Century Grand Challenges
How can STS contribute to solving the most vexing challenges facing humanity
at the outset of the 21st century? STS has had far less impact in many parts
of the world in shaping humanity’s responses to these challenges than,
arguably, the power of its ideas might suggest. At the same time, STS
scholars and ideas have made important contributions to solving societal
problems that should not be ignored. This section strives to review, most
importantly, where STS has essential contributions to make in helping
societies around the world address key social and policy problems. We also
seek chapters that highlight where STS is already making significant
contributions and where, with new developments in the field, it might be
positioned to contribute in the future. Examples include, but are certainly
not limited to: energy transformation; global environmental change; health
and wellbeing; security and justice; poverty; food and agriculture; finance
and markets; technological disasters; the human future/future human.
What to do?
Chapter proposals should include a 1000-1200 words abstract describing the
proposed chapter. In addition to the abstract, proposals should also offer a
paragraph explaining the importance of including the proposed chapter in the
STS Handbook and for which thematic section it would be most appropriate.
Proposals should also identify the proposed lead author and contributing
authors and describe the relevant qualifications of the team in the
chapter's field of coverage. Please include full contact information
(including email addresses) and short bios for all authors. Please send
proposals electronically as pdfs, to clark.miller（あっと）asu.edu. More information
can be found at http://stshandbook.com.
Target Date: August 15, 2013
