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Publishing empirically grounded Open Access books within relational research on STS.

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[Andreas Birkbak @communaut]

Thank you @matteringpress (and @STSeasst)! It's strange not to be there at #EASST4S2024 with you all, but I'm happily busy with kids and bikes this week...
Have a fun celebration and a wonderful conference everyone! And thanks again @IrinaPa for representing us at the plenary.

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And there's more... So very happy to see @IrinaPa collect the 2024 Freeman Award, for #DemocracticSituations! Those here in Amsterdam at #EASST4S2024 are welcome to join some imprompu celebrations which we will host at our stand, starting after the conclusion of the ceremony

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V. proud to be at #EASST4S2024 seeing Michaela Spencer, on of our editors, present her making & doing work - collaboratively w/ Hellen Verran, Michael Christie & Matt Campell - contributing to 40 years of transformations under Yolnu authority in East Arnhem Land, in N. Australia

[Irina Papazu @IrinaPa]

Join the reception if you’re at #4seasst!

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We will hosting a celebration on Thursday at 4.15 at the stand, shortly after #DemocraticSituations is presented with the 2024 Freeman Award🥳. Congratulations again to @communaut @IrinaPa & all. The book is #OpenAccess, freely available to all https://t.co/0pAZmSgN7G

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So exciting to be here at #EASST4S2024, materialised. Our stand is on the 1st floor, in the area above the registration desk. We've loved hanging out, meeting old friends, and making new ones.

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Many of us will be in Amsterdam in July - we look forward to joining the celebrations. Do get in touch if you have interesting, creative projects in mind that push at the boundaries of STS and/or the form of the scholarly book. Cheers to all.. and to the potential of #OpenAccces

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Massive, exciting news..! #DemocraticSituations has won the @STSeasst Freeman Award, to be presented at #4sEASST2024 next month. Congratulations to @communaut @IrinaPa & all the book's contributors. Of course, the book is 100% #OpenAccess, available to all https://t.co/0pAZmSgN7G

[Andreas Birkbak @communaut]

It's official 🥳 Our book Democratic Situations will be given the @STSeasst 2024 Freeman Award at the #4sEASST2024 Conference in Amsterdam in July. @IrinaPa will be there on stage for us 😅 Many thanks @STSeasst, @matteringpress and all contributors!
https://t.co/IFe00jSLnu

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Thanks to @hardyjuls for the outstanding cover design. The book is free to read online - appropriate for a book that arguging that democratic politics is co-shaped by its interfaces. Buying a hard copy will help sustain our work, though (and it will look lovely on your shelves)

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@allartmarkets Lovely 😍

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Today is the last chance to apply for a 1 day a week post to join out little team - come join us!

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Mattering Press is hiring! 🥳📚

We are looking for a publishing professional to join our lovely little team to help us consolidate our ways of working. Find out more here👇🏽

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Do you like books? Do you want to do important work? Do you want to spend time with lovely people?

Of course you do!

A reminder that you have a little over a week to apply for this 1 day/week publishing position.

Join us!

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Mattering Press is hiring! 🥳📚

We are looking for a publishing professional to join our lovely little team to help us consolidate our ways of working. Find out more here👇🏽

https://t.co/82uiRYwrAJ

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Enjoy Rima Praspaliauskiene’s case and many more for free online here:
https://t.co/TqonsooOeT

Edited by @eyatesd and @MsLabuski
Illustration by @Alice_Ferns

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Rima Praspaliauskiene’s case in The Ethnographic Case: Second Edition takes us to a Lithuanian public hospital and sets a rich chocolate cake in front of us.

https://t.co/TqonsooOeT

Is this an economic transaction? Cake exchanged for better care? Or is it more than that?

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She uses the object of the chocolate cake to query the social scientist’s impulse to explain why people do what they do.

She shows us how this impulse may rest upon rational calculation, uncomfortably treating sociality as a commodity.

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To submit an abstract, simply articulate two things: why the writing is necessary and why it must be written now.

Login to the conference website and look for workshop P338 - Writing at the end of the world: why write in a time of crisis?
https://t.co/VbyODn78hh

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Do you ever wonder whether writing is an adequate response to a world in crisis? Or whether academic writing usefully address catastrophe?

Us too!

We're running a workshop exploring this at the upcoming #easst4s2024 conference - join us!

https://t.co/VbyODn78hh

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For the workshop we invite wild, inflamed writing, where contributors put into words something that is impossible to say through traditional academic formats. There are no constraints on topic or form. We encourage incomplete pieces.