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 fields diversification and internationalization.
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.
Noela Invernizzi is a Full Professor at the Education School and the Public Policy Graduate Program of the Universidade Federal do Paranį, Brazil.
Leandro Rodriguez Medina is Full Professor of Sociology, in the Department of Sociology at Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Azcapotzalco, Mexico.
