Published On: May 22 2025
This volume explores the diverse meanings and ways of implementing development programs and technical assistance projects, through several case studies grounded in Mexico but transcending its geography. Despite – or perhaps because of – claims of “revolutionary nationalism”, Mexico played a crucial international role during the decades following World War II, both by challenging and enacting developmentalist models, values, and projects that stressed national priorities, resonating beyond its borders and even outside Latin America.
Published On: May 22 2025
This Open Access book explores the hidden politics of time (the 'chronopolitics') that profoundly shapes the contours of academic life and knowledge production in contemporary universities. Moving beyond familiar critiques of academic acceleration, Ulrike Felt explores the diversity of time generators and the resultant complex, multilayered timescapes that govern scholarly work and life. Arguing for a more mindful approach to research, Felt advocates for rethinking academia through the lens of time, emphasizing the need for temporal care work in order to achieve sustainable and responsible cha...
Published On: May 22 2025
This collection is designed to be a resource for a broad audience with various backgrounds, skills, and interests, including those who may not be familiar with the existing AI landscape. From educational and research contexts to policymaking and activism, we hope the ideas featured here will help us to reflect upon the challenges ahead when building, using and evaluating AI in different contexts. At the heart of these short essays are questions about the current state, and possible future of, creativity and environmental sustainability in a world with, of, and through, AI. If AI is contributin...
Published On: May 22 2025
Deadline: Jul 31, 2025
The Berggruen Prize Essay Competition, in the amount of $50,000 USD, is calling for essay submissions in English and Chinese on the theme of consciousness. It is given annually by the Berggruen Institute with the goal to stimulate new thinking and innovative concepts while embracing cross-cultural perspectives across fields, disciplines, and geographies. Inspired by the pivotal role essays have played in shaping thought and inquiry, we are inviting essays that follow in the tradition of renowned thinkers such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Michel de Montaigne, and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Submissions s...
Published On: May 22 2025
Health inequalities in the U.S. persist despite lots of concern about them. Civil rights are being quickly dismantled, even though we know, for example, that pulse oximeters don't read as well on darker skin. From insurance denials to gender identity in medical records, Anna Kirkland details the practices and policies that create health care civil rights. Health Care Civil Rights is based on 118 in-depth interviews with healthcare administrators in charge of implementing civil rights regulations in healthcare settings, advocates and policy leaders, trans and non-binary people navigating their ...
Published On: May 22 2025
Manorial Capitalism, Enslavement, and the Logic of Dividuation proffers three perspectives on the plantation slave economy of the Antebellum South. The first explores the paternal function as exemplified in the structural authority of the lord of the manor both symbolically and operationally. This figure of masculine authority persisted from the Medieval period to orchestrate what is called here Manorial Capitalism. The second examines the exploitation and alienation that epitomize the logic of capitalism from the plantation economy to the present. And the third deploys retroactively the logic...
Published On: May 22 2025
This groundbreaking collection draws together case studies of social medicine in the Global South, radically shifting our understanding of social science in healthcare. Looking beyond a narrative originating in nineteenth-century Europe, a team of expert contributors explores a far broader set of roots and branches, with nodes in Sub-Saharan Africa, South America, Oceania, the Middle East, and Asia. This plural approach reframes and decolonizes the study of social medicine, highlighting connections to social justice and health equity, social science and state formation, bottom-up community ini...
Published On: May 15 2025
Deadline: Jun 1, 2025
As part of our mission to promote scholarship and activism towards more equitable forms of labor and technology, LaborTech hosts three annual awards -- Book, Graduate Student Paper, and Social Justice. These honor projects which: have distinctive intellectual merit or activist impact; advance the knowledge about labor and technology in the global society; and address our core focus on labor and technology and which may simultaneously address feminism, anti-racism, and/or transnationalism.
Published On: May 15 2025
Deadline: Dec 31, 2025
The Advanced Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences (AI-HSS) of The University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) is seeking outstanding scholars at all career stages to strengthen our research and teaching capabilities in the ethics and philosophy of science and technology. Successful candidates will join either the Research Center for Ethics and Governance of Science and Technology or the Research Center for Philosophy, Logic, and History of Science and Technology, conducting cutting-edge research on ethical, philosophical, and governance issues related to emerging te...
Published On: Jan 17 2025
Deadline: Mar 31, 2025
The Publications Committee of the Society for Social Studies of Science solicits nominations and proposals for Editor(s) to lead the 4S-sponsored diamond open access journal, Engaging Science, Technology, and Society. ESTS is a vibrant peer-reviewed venue for addressing how science and technology infuse the world in which we live.
The journal publishes peer-reviewed content in both long-form and short-form genres: original research articles, thematic collections, engagements, perspectives, and research data. Content is organized into three issues annually, and includes work that represents ...