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Abstract

He did his doctorate at the department of science, technology and policy studies of the University of Twente. His research is located at the intersection of sociology, political science, and science and technology studies (STS), focusing on the intertwining of epistemic, political, and aesthetic practices in late modern process of innovation and governance. Nora Rigamonti is a research associate in the project "Taste! Qualitative-sensoric ʻcitizen scienceʼ on the practice and aesthetics of eating" at the chair of Sociology of Politics and Governance at Berlin University of Technology. In her PhD, she focused on different entanglements of political and aesthetic practices and related in(ter)ventive democratic practices at the interdisciplinary DFG Graduate School "Innovation Society Today", where she was a research associate from 2015 to 2018 and is now an associate member. Marcela Suárez (Dr.) received her PhD in political science from Freie Universität Berlin (FU) and is an associate researcher and lecturer at the Lateinamerika-Institut at FU. She investigates the socio-political dynamics of governance, asymmetries of knowledge, techno-scientific feminisms and digital culture. Since 2018 she has been part of the research group DiGiTal Transformation where she is working on the project "Feminist politics and the fight against violence in the era of digitalization".