33. Disciplinary boundaries of STS studies: reflecting on its current state and future trajectories
Renato Ponciano, Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala; Miguel Muñoz
Posted: February 28, 2022 Accepted Languages: English/Inglés/Inglês, Spanish/Español/Espanhol, Portuguese/Portugués
This panel follows up the conversation started in a panel at ESOCITE 2020 regarding the boundaries and current state of STS. Following the work of Kreimer and Vessuri (2018), does STS fulfill the criteria that they set for qualifying it as a mature disciplinary field? And if that is the case, what is its current state? Where is it headed? This are the type of questions this panel aims at discussing and for that purpose. Aiming at expanding the conversation from Latin America to a global perspective, we welcome contributions such as:
Reflections on the nature of STS and is situatedness: how language and cultural, social, economic, and political context shape STS? What are the differences in scope, concern and matters of inquiry between STS in the global north and the global south? Or, going further, is researching STS in Latin America a similar exercise to doing it in the Oceanic, Eurasian, Asian, Arab, African, North American, or European contexts?
Contributions that, both from theoretical perspectives and from the study of specific cases, are on the disciplinary boundaries of STS or even expanding the limits of the field in new directions.
Contributions that, coming from diverse disciplines, have found in the STS perspective an effective theoretical-methodological approach to study the problems raised in them, in such a way that they also lead to a discussion on the problem of the limits f STS studies.
Contributions that reflect on the future trajectories of STS and what they represent for current research.
