Raf De Bont, Vanessa Bateman, and Tom Quick co-organized a panel at the quadrennial joint meeting of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) and the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), EASST-42 held in Amsterdam.
Their panel, “Animal (im)mobilities” was held over three sessions with presentations by: Raf De Bont, Tom Quick, Clémence Gadenne-Rosfelder, Simon Castel, Vanessa Bateman, Marit Ruge Bjærke, Pierre-Louis Choquet, Emilie Köhler, Clément Foutrel, and Kathrin Friedrich.
Papers ranged from zoo data systems, pig farming architecture, frogs in space, Fascist big game hunters, deer hybridization in New Zealand, eating invasive oysters in Norway, Amazonian cattle tracking and deforestation, elephant corridors in Africa, the spectacularization of sea turtle conservation, and virtual livestock fences.
Animal (im)mobilities short abstract:
Throughout the world, new-fangled technologies, ever-more complicated administrative procedures, and legal instruments monitor and regulate the movement of non-human lives. Through historical and contemporary case studies, this panel will unpack their social and moral dimensions.
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