The term started with an empty kitchen and is about to end with an almost empty kitchen. Our Kitchen STS discussions have more or less successfully gone virtual and we can look back at three great sessions. Huge thanks to Carolin, Kevin, and Mara, who did all the preparations as they are our local experts about pandemics and global health!
The discussed literature provided a good introduction into STS and (Global) Public Health. We engaged in many different questions and streams of discussion that are intersting for STS debates: The problem of knowledge production, (un)safe knowledge, conflicting viewpoints, biopolitics, environmental impacts and planetary, more-than-human health concepts, to name a few.
Here is the list of literature which we discussed:
- Sariola, S.; Engel, N.; Montgomery, C.; Kingori, P. (2017) STS and Global Health. In: Science & Technology Studies 30 (3): 2-12.
- Kelly, A. (2018) Ebola vaccines, evidentiary charisma and the rise of global health emergency research. In: Economy and Society 47 (1): 135-161.
- Farman, A.; Rottenburg, R. (2019) Measures of future health,from the nonhuman to the planetary. An introductory essay. Medicine Anthropology Theory 6 (3): 1–28.
- Lorenzini, D. (2020) Biopolitics in the Time of Coronavirus. Critical Inquiry (blog), URL: https://critinq.wordpress.com/2020/04/02/biopolitics-in-the-time-of-coronavirus/
As some of us are already preparing for the joint virtual 4S/EASST conference in August we thought that, given the current COVID-19 regulations about physical meetings, we would kindly invite to a pre-conference hang out some time before the official start of the conference on 18th August 2020 and/or a post-conference hang out some time after the conference. If you are interested in such meetings please write us an email.