Overview
This workshop will perceive automation as a “socio-technical system” in the effort to understand how technology not only shapes society but is in turn molded by the prevailing structures of economic and political power (Jasanoff 2004; Marcuse 1941; Nobel 1979). Through a historical review of the dialectical relations that operate between technological innovations and social change, we will conceptualize worker-centered technologies that aspire to a socially sustainable model of development.
| Date: | May 11, 2018 |
| Venue: | Room 5504, Lift 25/26, Academic Building, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology |
Organizer
CRF Project “Making Modernity in East Asia: Technologies of Everyday Life, 19th – 21st Centuries” (RGC CRF The University of Hong Kong C7011-16G), Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, The University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Program
| 9:10 am – 9:30 am | Welcoming Remarks Naubahar Sharif (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) and V. V. Krishna (Jawaharlal Nehru University) |
| 9:45 am – 1:00 pm | Panel 1: Industrial Automation and Technological Modernity Chair: Venni Krishna |
| Luke Heemsberger (Deakin University), Angela Daly (Queensland University of Technology), and Jiajie Lu (Queensland University of Technology) Manufacturing 3D Printed Futures: Comparative Backcasting of the Political Economies of Additive Manufacturing in Hong Kong, Shenzhen, and Singapore. |
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| Naubahar Sharif and Huang Yu (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) Replacing Humans with Robots: Technological Change, Value Chain Upgrading, and Workers’ Reaction in Dongguan, China |
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| Boy Lüthje (Sun Yat-sen University)
Platform Capitalism “Made in China”? Intelligent Manufacturing and the Restructuring of Work |
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| 2:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Panel 2: Smart Economy and Social Technology Chair: Naubahar Sharif |
| Gayathri Haridas and Thijs Willems (Singapore University of Technology and Design) The Future of Manufacturing Work in Smart Singapore: Imaginations, Realities, and (Dis)continuous Inequalities |
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| Saori Shibata (Leiden University) Autonomy or Fictitious Freedom: Strategies of Hegemony in Japan’s Gig Economy |
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| 4:45 pm – 6:15 pm | Planning for the special issue |
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