Spatial Stories Work Space
This essay serves as an extension of the 2020 AiT Conference titled "Stories-so-Far: Spatial Knowledges and Imaginaries." Together we have created a digital research space that will continue to grow and support collaboration on research and activism related to various themes from the conference.Some of these themes may include: collaboration ethics, methodologies, infrastructuring archives, transnational hyper-nationalist science, transient spaces, law shapes space and vice
Spatial Stories: Shared Questions
- MATERIALITIES: How does this text/talk draw out the material features and infrastructures of place and space?
- SCALES: How are space and place scaled in this text/talk? How are bodies cast and conceptualized?
- ORGANIZATIONS: How does this text/talk describe the organization, meaning and valuation of space and place?
- METHODOLOGIES: What methods, ethnographic and otherwise, are being used to work with and theorize space/place in this text/talk?
Mandate
With the intrinsic personal ambition to promote STS research that positions itself activistly, my research commences with a self-imposed mandate, namely: to critically investigate evidence as a socio-material constitution and representation of factual claims based on knowledge production processes, i.e.