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This book enriches Latin American Science and Technology Studies by making a pioneering contribution to theories from its geopolitical margins. Rather than merely challenging Northern dominance, it fosters dialogue between Northern and Southern scholars, highlighting the complex, multi-situated development of science and technology and contributing to the field s diversification and internationalization.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Chapter 1: On the notion and theorization of peripheral science.- Chapter 2: The subordinate integration in the production and circulation of knowledge: origin, development and rewritings.- Chapter 3: Give Me the World and I Will Raise Laboratories: Veiled Provincialism and Geopolitics of Knowledge in Latin American STS.- Chapter 4: Latin American Infrastructure Studies: On the fragility of modernist projects.- Chapter 5: Towards a Bio-Sociotechnical Systems Approach: considerations and evidences based on communicable diseases.- Chapter 6: Gender and the aspirational biomedicalization of sexual risk.- Chapter 7: Technologies and knowledge in gray zones.- Chapter 8: Social Technology: historical development and appropriations of the concept.- Chapter 9: The Engaged Engineering and (other) technological fields (EETF) Program A Review from a Latin American Perspective.- Chapter 10: Local eco-innovation: contributions to the debate on sustainable innovation.- Chapter 11: Bringing convivial tools into STS Studies. The intersection of artistic practices, agri-food, and technoscience in Latin America.- Chapter 12: Cognitive Materialism: A Theory on Capitalism and Knowledge.- Chapter 13: Socio-technical analysis in action: Processes of construction of working/non-working of technologies.- Chapter 14: Citation Functions and Their Role in Scientific Organization.- Chapter 15: Transversality: The Emergence of an Environmental Ethic in Climate Governance.- Chapter 16: Technological Bargaining: Limits and Potentials of Labor Agency in the Face of Technological Change.- Chapter 17: Breaking the deficit-dialogue binary with hybrids: Opening-up science-society framings from the South.
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Noela Invernizzi is a Full Professor at the Education School and the Public Policy Graduate Program of the Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brazil.
Leandro Rodriguez Medina is Full Professor of Sociology, in the Department of Sociology at Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Azcapotzalco, Mexico.
Zusammenfassung
This book enriches Latin American Science and Technology Studies by making a pioneering contribution to theories from its geopolitical margins. Rather than merely challenging Northern dominance, it fosters dialogue between Northern and Southern scholars, highlighting the complex, multi-situated development of science and technology and contributing to the field’s diversification and internationalization.
