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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">If you’re considering this year’s <a href="https://annualmeeting.americananthro.org/">American Anthropological</a> Association meeting, here’s a CFP.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Please respond to <a href="mailto:reddy@mines.edu">
reddy@mines.edu</a> and <a href="mailto:appelhas@lafayette.edu">appelhas@lafayette.edu</a> with an abstract of no more than 250 words by Wednesday April 24, 2024<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Session Abstract: Engineering Praxis: Exploring Engineers’ Engagements with Theory and Practice</span><span style="mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Praxis is our starting point to frame anthropological engagements with engineering. We often understand engineering to facilitate disengagement
from social politics, or the denial of the agency of ordinary practitioners, who are subsumed into depoliticized modes of doing modern, objective technoscience. These conventions are, however, the product of particular kinds of disciplinary configurations
that unfold within and through material and social conditions. Engineers do exert agency over their work,and will continue to do so.</span><span style="mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">We ask: How do engineers construct relationships between theory and practice, and what might ethnographic attention on this issue help us understand?
We call for papers that explore how values, ideas, or politics are embodied and otherwise engaged in engineering. Might ethnographic attention help us consider issues like techno-social dualism and techno optimism as lived practices, allowing us to both nuance
our critiques and find new ways of thinking? We seek explorations of what particular configurations of praxis make possible for engineers and engineering. We look forward to papers which explore failures and flourishing alike. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Beth Reddy and Sarah Appelhans</span><span style="mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#888888;mso-ligatures:none">Elizabeth Reddy, PhD<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#888888;mso-ligatures:none">Assistant Professor | Engineering, Design, & Society | Geophysics<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#888888;mso-ligatures:none">Associate Director | Humanitarian Engineering and Science<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#888888;mso-ligatures:none">Colorado School of Mines<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a href="http://www.elizabethreddy.info" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0563C1">www.elizabethreddy.info</span></a>
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