Workshop: STS research on Africa and from Africa

研讨会：关于非洲和来自非洲的 STS 研究

• 批准号: 1754970
• 负责人: Toluwalogo Odumosu
• 金额: $ 2.5万
• 依托单位: University of Virginia Main Campus
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-08-01 至 2019-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1754970&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Workshop; STS; research; Africa

This workshop will highlight and address the structural challenges faced by STS scholars and their scholarship from, on, and about the continent of Africa. The conference will contribute to increasing knowledge in the field by bringing together the disparate communities of scholarship on African STS, integrating insights from studying Biomedicine, the Environment and Information and Communication Technologies. By increasing participation of uniquely African perspectives in the creation of STS knowledge about the continent, the workshop will deepen our insights on various processes of science, technology and innovation on the African continent.The core question of the workshop is this: What are the boundaries of Science and Technology in Africa and how should we recognize and address both the uniqueness of African knowledge production and innovation on the one hand, and the potential that STS work in Africa has to offer to the field as a whole on the other? By bringing together a diverse group of STS scholars who work in and on the African continent before the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) meeting, the workshop will create the institutional pressure for the society to more fully engage with African STS scholarship. The workshop will also affect the field as a whole by generating new scholarly agendas to expand the visibility of STS research in and on Africa.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

本次研讨会将强调并讨论STS学者及其来自非洲大陆的学术研究所面临的结构性挑战。这次会议将汇集非洲STS的不同学术团体，整合来自研究生物医学、环境和信息与通信技术的见解，从而有助于增加该领域的知识。通过增加独特的非洲观点参与创造关于非洲大陆的STS知识，讲习班将加深我们对非洲大陆各种科学、技术和创新进程的见解。研讨会的核心问题是：非洲科学和技术的边界是什么？我们应该如何认识和处理非洲知识生产和创新的独特性，以及非洲的STS工作为整个领域提供的潜力？在科学社会研究学会（4S）会议之前，通过将在非洲大陆和在非洲大陆工作的不同STS学者聚集在一起，该研讨会将为该学会更充分地参与非洲STS奖学金创造制度压力。讲习班还将通过产生新的学术议程来扩大STS在非洲和关于非洲的研究的可见度，从而影响整个领域。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。