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SUMMARY:REPARANDO: Joint SHOT/ ICOHTEC annual conference in Santiago de Chile
DESCRIPTION:EHL and SHT will participate in and co-organize the joint annual conference of the Society for History of Technology SHOT and The International Committee for the History of Technology ICOHTEC in Viña del Mar (near Santiago de Chile) on July 8-14\, 2024. This will the first time that either society meets on the South American continent. \nRead the CfP \nMore info: \nReparando / Repair in the History of Technology\nThe technological environments we inhabit require continual repair and maintenance in order to function. Yet the people on whom such repairs rely—along with their knowledge and labor—too often remain unseen and undervalued\, becoming visible only in cases of infrastructural breakdown or spectacular disaster. The routine invisibility of repair facilitates grand proclamations of technological solutionism\, distracting from the requirements for living equitably in an increasingly fragmented and fragile world. \nHow does our understanding of the history of technology change when we center repair and maintenance?  Such a shift involves highlighting users and experiential knowledge. It opens up conceptions of what counts as technological knowledge and who counts as technological actors. Such themes have lurked in our field for some time\, mounting in scale and significance over the last decade. Repair is now part of our vocabulary\, here to stay. The time has come to make it the thematic core of our annual meeting. The first joint conference between ICOHTEC and SHOT in three decades\, to be held bilingually in Viña del Mar\, Chile\, provides the ideal place for doing so. \nReparando—the gerund of repair in Spanish—holds a special place in the history of Chile\, a nation at the intersection of several tectonic plates. Chileans accept seismic activity as part of everyday life\, remaining unfazed by mild earthquakes. Of course\, the stronger earthquakes are deeply disruptive\, destroying cities and communities. In 1960\, the deadliest earthquake registered in human history (magnitude 9.5) struck the southern region of Valdivia. Accompanied by a tsunami\, the Great Chilean Earthquake destroyed livelihoods and property\, and took thousands of lives. This destruction required not just concrete infrastructural repair\, but also social and emotional repair for traumatized victims. The Chilean experience highlights the need to approach repair as a practice of human and technological resilience\, in which cooperation and compassion are as essential as material rebuilding and fixing. \nThis is the context in which we invite a critical appraisal of the concept\, strategies\, and philosophies of repair. How does repair/reparando sustain our built environment and our daily lives? How can we think through brokenness\, restoration\, and care? What and who counts as “normal\,” and how does that affect our infrastructures? How do people excluded from infrastructural benefits use rebuilding\, repurposing\, adjusting\, and reparando as navigational strategies? How do discussions about repair and repurposing reflect social\, political\, and cultural dynamics? What does reparando look like at different scales\, from the individual to the planetary? And how can focusing on these themes open a discussion of what requires repair in our own field of the history of technology – and what methodologies and approaches are needed to enact that repair? \nTopics and themes of special interest to the program committee include (but are not limited to): \n\nThe ethics\, aesthetics\, and politics of repair\nAdjusting\, tinkering\, hacking – tactics for times of scarcity\nInvisible labor in science and technology\nGeographies of repair and care\, from the local to the planetary\nThe role of technology in environmental and climate (in)justice\nAbleism\, disability\, and crip epistemologies in technology studies\nIndigenous lands\, indigenous knowledge\nQueering the history of technology\nTechnologies of care and healing\nLocal cultures of repair\, repurposing\, and recycling\nIntersections of repair\, design\, and engineering\nNormies and Others in technological history\nThe technological dimensions and aftermaths of disasters\, emergencies\, and crises\nReckoning with colonial pasts and imagining decolonial futures\nRepairing the history of technology: methodological and epistemic strategies for the future of the discipline\nThe role of conservation\, preservation\, and archives in understanding the past and repairing the field
URL:https://www.eindhovenhistorylab.nl/event/joint-shot-icohtec-annual-conference-in-santiago-de-chile/
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