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Several members of our group have been invited to present papers at the EASST conference 2010.

While Anup Sam Ninan will present results of his research on the production of carbon credits, Ingmar Lippert prepared a paper on the construction of carbon emissions. See [1] [2].

References

1. Sustainability as a localised performance: The production of carbon credits in a developing country site,
   Anup San Ninan
   , EASST010 conference: Practicing science and technology, performing the social, 02/09/2010, Trento, Italy, (Submitted)
2. Capitalism in Constructing Carbon Emissions,
   Ingmar Lippert
   , EASST010 conference: Practicing science and technology, performing the social, 02/09/2010, (Submitted)

Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) is the oldest and largest scholarly association devoted to understanding science and technology.

At the annual meeting 2009 one of our group members has been invited to present his work: Anup Sam Ninan [1].

References

1. In Carbon they Swear! Materiality and Sustainability in Climate Change,
   Anup San Ninan
   , 4S 2009 Annual Meeting of the The Society Society for Social Studies of Science, 29/10/2009, (Submitted)

The first UK Postgraduate Science and Technology Studies (PSTS) conference will be held at the Institute for Science and Society at the University of Nottingham on the 28th and 29th July 2009. If you are engaged in research in science, technology and society and related fields, then the event will provide a key forum in which to present on-going research and build networks within the UK STS community. The conference is organised by postgraduate students and is intended for postgrads at all stages of research.

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Based on an in-depth examination of the original writings of Mohandas Gandhi, spanning over 98 volumes, and the compendium of works by his associates J. C. Kumarappa and Vinoba Bhave, this article explores the technoscientific notions of the Gandhian school of thought to broaden the technology–sustainability discussions. Premised on the idea of nature, the varying nature–human definitions were crucial for Gandhians in pursuing their political activities. Positing nature methodologically as an unproblematic abstract category, Gandhians formulated, redefi ned and appropriated technoscientifi c spaces; thereby facili- tating their technological choices and artefacts to embody the values of sustainability, decentralized autonomy and labour-intensiveness. They engaged science and technology as a contextually contingent social process and integrated it into a mass political movement by identifying technoscience as a site of political action. This article adds to the STS discussions on democratization of technology, and the socially embedded nature of scientific ingenuity and multivalency of technological choices.