Training Future Comrades: Gender Pedagogy and Model Train Sets in the German Democratic Republic

Mario Bianchini

Science, Technology, & Human Values, Ahead of Print.
This article investigates how model train sets became a medium for the marketing and development of East German technological utopianism, particularly in order to recruit...

Geological (Dis)orientations: Training Sites, Storytelling, and Fieldwork in the Chilean Andes

Martín Fonck

Science, Technology, & Human Values, Ahead of Print.
This article explores place-based geological storytelling by examining the role of training sites in the geoscientific learning process. Based on ethnographic work conducted...

Translating Law and Code in Government: Algorithmic Decisions and Their Legal Effects in Canada

Mike Zajko

Science, Technology, & Human Values, Ahead of Print.
This article analyzes the translation of law into computer code and the use of automated decision-making systems in government to make legal distinctions. Specifically,...

Mother-Led Science: Rethinking Science-Based Social Movements Through Temporality and Care

Geneva M. Smith

Science, Technology, & Human Values, Ahead of Print.
This article explores the subjective and temporal modes of organizing underlying science-based social movements through an analysis of two mother-led movements in Argentina....

Small Chemicals of Trauma: Epigenetics as Colonial Unknowing

Henrietta Byrne

Science, Technology, & Human Values, Ahead of Print.
In Australia, some Indigenous and non-Indigenous scientists, health workers, psychologists, and others have identified a resonance between epigenetics and Indigenous scholarship...

Caring for Scholarship in Transition

Published On: Apr 15 2024

Ali Kenner, Clément Dréano , Noela Invernizzi , Duygu Kaşdoğan , Aalok Khandekar , Angela Okune , Grant Jun Otsuki , Sujatha Raman , Tim Schütz , Federico Vasen, Amanda Windle , Emily York

This editorial briefly reflects on the idea of transition—a theme that cuts across energy systems, migration, and education, to name a few—and is likely familiar to many readers. In this issue, we focus on transition within...

Collaborative Ethnography and Matters of Care in Counterspaces

Published On: Apr 22 2024

Coleen Carrigan, Joyce Yen, Cara Margherio, Christine Grant, Claire Horner-Devine, Eve Riskin, Julie Ivy, Burren Peil

This paper offers a reflexive analysis of an interdisciplinary and cross-race collaboration to advance equity in engineering called LATTICE (Launching Academics on the Tenure-Track: an Intentional Community in Engineering). We...

Algorithms in the Margins: Organized Community Resistance to Port Automation in the Los Angeles Harbor Area

Published On: Apr 22 2024

Taylor M Cruz, Jaewoo Park, Emily Moore, Austin Chen, Andrea Gordillo

Public deliberations on artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) provoke strong interest in automation, or the perceived displacement of human labor due to general technological advances. Social science scholarship...

Maintenance and Its Knowledges: Functional Exploration, Biographical Supervision, and Behavioural Examination

Published On: Apr 22 2024

Jérôme Denis, Daniel Florentin, David Pontille

This introductory article to the thematic collection entitled “Maintenance and its Knowledges” makes a significant departure from breakdown-centred studies. It foregrounds the epistemic virtues of maintenance, a practice that...