title: Matters of care in technoscience: assembling neglected things. .
abstract: This paper aims to encourage an ethos of care in the study of science and technology. It starts with a reading of Bruno Latour's notion of'matters of concern' as favouring an awareness of the ethico-political effects of constructivist accounts in STS. Introducing attention to concern brings us closer to a notion of care. However, there is a'critical' edge to care that Latour's politics of things tends to disregard. Drawing upon feminist knowledge politics, I propose to treat matters of fact and sociotechnical assemblages as 'matters of care' and argue that engaging with care requires a speculative commitment to neglected things.
authors.affiliation: School of Management, University of Leicester, Ken Edwards Building, Leicester LEI 7RH, UK. m.puig@le.ac.uk
authors.forename: Maria Puig
authors.initials: MP
authors.lastname: de la Bellacasa
mesh_terms: D004989:Ethics; D019513:Feminism; D006801:Humans; D012586:Science; D012961:Sociology; D013672:Technology