CFP: Disaster, Infrastructure and Participatory Knowledge | Citizen Science: Theory & Practice

ab1630's bookmarks 2020-07-09

Summary:

"Special Issue Call for Papers on Disaster, Infrastructure, and Participatory Knowledge. Citizen Science: Theory & Practice..."

Issue overview The COVID pandemic and subsequent citizen and community science responses around the world are typical of how today’s disasters[1] spur citizen and community science into action. Disasters tend to be seen as acute and geographically specific, but as the pandemic illustrates, they can also be slow-moving and geographically dispersed. Disasters also tend to accelerate, reinforce and deepen social vulnerabilities and can reveal how social institutions and socio-technical infrastructure amplify social and environmental inequality. For example, the COVID pandemic is exposing how the precarity of health care institutions and the fragility of medical technology supply chains can create new disparities in health conditions and access to health care. It is also exposing insufficient and disparate government-driven data collection about health. This special issue will focus on how infrastructure – physical, social and digital – mediates citizen and community science responses to all types of disaster...."

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https://www.citizenscience.org/2020/07/07/special-issue-disaster-infrastructure-and-participatory-knowledge/

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Date tagged:

07/09/2020, 15:02

Date published:

07/09/2020, 11:02