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6S Sketch Group Call
Published On: Apr 13, 2023
The Student Section of Society for the Social Studies of Science (6S) have returned with the 6S Sketch Groups for students and early career scholars.
Call for Proposals: Special Issues of Science, Technology & Human Values - closes 25 May
Published On: Apr 5, 2023
Deadline: May 25, 2023
The editorial group of Science, Technology, & Human Values (Kari Lancaster, Courtney Addison, Timothy Neale and Matthew Kearnes) announces the journal’s annual Call for Proposals for Special Issues.
4S Honolulu Paraconference
Published On: Mar 23, 2023
In collaboration with the Environmental inJustice: Building a Global Record project and local EJ activists in Hawai’i, interested 4S members will re-analyze their research on colonialism, militarism and/or environmental injustice and para-site it by situating it in the matters of concern in Hawai’i for the paraconference.
4S Publications
Science, Technology, and Human Values
For more than forty years, Science, Technology, & Human Values has provided the forum for cutting-edge research and debate in the field of science and technology studies.
Thank you to our reviewers for 2021 and 2022
Science, Technology, & Human Values, Volume 48, Issue 2, Page 237-242, March 2023.
Between the Lab and the Field: Plants and the Affective Atmospheres of Southern Science
Science, Technology, & Human Values, Volume 48, Issue 2, Page 243-271, March 2023.
In view of persistent global inequalities in scientific knowledge production with clear centers and peripheries, this paper examines a lingering...
Transfer or Translation? Rethinking Traveling Technologies from the Global South
Science, Technology, & Human Values, Volume 48, Issue 2, Page 272-294, March 2023.
Technology flows are becoming increasingly diverse in the twenty-first century, calling for an update of concepts and frameworks. Reflecting...
Diversifying the Deliberative Turn: Toward an Agonistic RRI
Science, Technology, & Human Values, Volume 48, Issue 2, Page 295-318, March 2023.
In its “deliberative turn,” the field of science and technology studies (STS) has strongly advocated opening up decision-making processes...
Data Echoes: Sound, Evidence, and Acoustic Methods in Energy Landscapes
Science, Technology, & Human Values, Volume 48, Issue 2, Page 319-342, March 2023.
This paper explores an informal acoustic method developed by a group of industrial geologists working in geothermal energy landscapes in the...
Engaging Science, Technology and Society
Engaging Science, Technology, & Society is an online, open access publication of The Society for Social Studies of Science.
Editorials
Building Community with ESTS
Sep 9 2022
Aalok Khandekar; Noela Invernizzi, Duygu Kaşdoğan, Ali Kenner, Angela Okune, Grant Jun Otsuki, Sujatha Raman, Amanda Windle, Emily York, ESTS Editorial Collective
Research Articles
The Unique and the Universal: Analyzing the Interplay Between Regulatory Frameworks, Researchers and Research Participants in Data Making
Sep 9 2022
Francisca Nordfalk, Maria Olejaz, Klaus Høyer
The Empowering Virtues of Citizen Science: Claiming Clean Air in Brussels
Sep 9 2022
Nicola da Schio
Thematic Collections
Science & Dissent: Alternative Temporalities, Geographies, Epistemologies
Sep 9 2022
Kelly Moore, Bruno Strasser
Collaborative Dissent: Noses as Shared Instruments in the Nineteenth-Century Fight for Public Health
Sep 9 2022
Melanie A. Kiechle
Creative Dissent in India: Knowledge Swaraj and the People’s Health Movement
Sep 9 2022
Shambu C. Prasad, Mathieu Quet
The Shapes of Dissent: Protest, Masculinities, and Nuclear Expertise
Sep 9 2022
Bruno J. Strasser
From Resistance to Co-Management?: Rethinking Scientization in the Contestation of the Technosciences
Sep 9 2022
Sezin Topçu
Knowledge Co-Production in Scientific and Activist Alliances: Unsettling Coloniality
Sep 9 2022
Marta Conde, Mariana Walter
Seed Schools in Colombia and the Generative Character of Sociotechnical Dissent
Sep 9 2022
Nathalia Hernandez Vidal, Kelly Moore
Engagements
How to Deal with Cosmoecological Perplexities: Artscience, Critical Zones, Pluriversal Politics
Sep 9 2022
Casper Bruun Jensen
4S Blog: Backchannels
Some Reflections on Co-editing in Pandemic Times
'Japanese garden on Hungarian rooftop': diversity and memory for sustainability futures
Designing Natural Things: How Images Make Meaning in History of Science
Genealogies of Iran’s Gender Politics: Technopolitical Space, Feminine Body, and Knowledge Hierarchies
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Making and Doing: STS Beyond the Four Corners of the Paper
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