Dear all, We're writing to invite abstracts for papers for our 4S Open Panel <https://www.4sonline.org/190-total-institutions-technosciences-of-care-and-control/>, "Total Institutions: Technosciences of Care and Control." The conference is taking place in Toronto, October 6-9, but matter what, there will be options for distance participation. Abstracts of approx. 250 words are due, via 4S, by March 8th. The panel description is below and please feel free to send this CFP to anyone who might be interested. Sincerely, Beth Semel*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)* Hannah Zeavin*, UC Berkeley* * "Total Institutions: Technosciences of Care and Control"* Erving Goffman (1961) called both prisons and psychiatric wards “total institutions,” gesturing to the intertwined nature of care, capture, and control in efforts to manage deviance of the soul, psyche, or self. This panel investigates institutions and techniques of mental health care in the Global North, South, and colonial contexts, grappling with the criminological, forensic, pastoral and penal impulses of the psy-disciplines. Building from the work of feminist science and technology studies, abolitionist scholarship (Wang 2018), studies of racial capitalism (Robinson 1983), and historical and sociological studies of psychiatry, social services, and the prison industrial complex (Roberts 2001, Metzl 2010, Ryan Hatch 2019, Raz 2020, Smtih 2020), panelists will explore the connective tissue between the prison and the asylum, probing the practices, histories, expertise and apparatuses within the mental health care professions and other social services (from psychiatry, psychology, psychotherapy, and beyond) that knit together the carceral with the bioemdical. We invite papers that approach topics such as: 1. The role of digital, computational, and pharmaceutical technologies (e.g. electronic monitoring, predictive AI, listening tools, psychotropic drugs) in extending, fortifying, or disrupting the carceral dimensions of the psy-disciplines, particularly as they impact racialized and marginalized communities 2. The intersection of state, corporate, and colonial surveillance networks and mental health care, from institutionalization to self-help and mindfulness movements 3. Anti-carceral technologies that point to abolitionist futures for psychiatry beyond bureaucratic or colonial institutions 4. Accounts of activist, patient rights’, or disability justice movements, subsumed histories of radical care, and initiatives to decolonize biomedical care practices Potential topics include: incarceration, surveillance, mental health care, technology, biomedicine -- Dr. Hannah Zeavin Lecturer, UC Berkeley author of *The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy <https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/distance-cure> *(MIT Press, 2021)