52. Fronteras y encuentros: Pensando la historia y los STS desde Latinoamérica y el Caribe (Borders and Encounters: Thinking With History and STS from Latin America and the Caribbean)
Julia E Rodriguez, University of New Hampshire; Karin Rosemblatt, University Of Maryland College Park; Adam Warren, University of Washington
Posted: February 28, 2022 Accepted Languages: English/Inglés/Inglês, Spanish/Español/Espanhol, Portuguese/Portugués
In what ways does scholarship from or about Latin America and the Caribbean underscore, undermine, or bridge differences across multiple knowledge practices? We propose a series of three panels that will broach this question from different perspectives to ascertain how recent interventions have and will reconfigure the history and social studies of technoscience. Panel 1 will explore how scholarly knowledge practices dialog with popular, Indigenous, and Afro-descendant communities and ways of knowing. Panel 2 will ask how work produced from sites in Latin America and the Caribbean dialogs with work produced in the North. Panel 3 will focus on how Latin Americanist and Caribbeanist historians dialog with philosophers and social scientists who focus on the region. The sessions invite us to complicate our understanding of the possibilities and limitations that this scholarship derives from its embeddedness in multiple networks and relationships, and what might be achieved by considering the inequities that structure these forms of relationality.
Each of these panels will look at how our own scholarly methodologies draw from universalizing/particularizing forms of thinking and their effect on existing hierarchies of knowledge between ways of knowing. Can Latin America and the Caribbean, when framed as objects of study and sites of knowledge production, can provide novel perspectives for thinking about fields of study and their limits? By plotting sites of encounter and the re(making) of differences, we intend to move towards more equitable forms of dialog about issues in technoscience and knowledge making that are important across the hemisphere.
