Pablo Kreimer, CONICET; Noela Invernizzi, Universidade Federal do Parana; Duygu Kasdogan, ?zmir Katip Çelebi University
Posted: February 28, 2022 Accepted Languages: English/Inglés/Inglês, Spanish/Español/Espanhol, Portuguese/Portugués
Globalization, both in the economy and in science, is asymmetrical and follows, to a large extent, the patterns of unequal distribution of resources – material and symbolic – and opportunities. On the other hand, the central and peripheral contexts (both heterogeneous) are not isolated spaces within a relatively harmonious global system, but are parts that determine and influence each other respectively.
The STS field has dealt with science in various contexts, and has drawn attention to the situated character of knowledge production, but the definition of technoscience implicitly referred, for decades, to what several authors called “Euroamerica”. In other words, the most widespread approaches and concepts in the field have been focused on knowledge produced in central contexts as the privileged object of study, without paying much attention to its dynamics in peripheral contexts. In recent years, expressions such as “Science from below” (Harding, 2008), “Provincializing STS” (Chen, 2017; Law & Lin, 2017), or “Postcolonial STS” (Anderson, 2017; Harding, 2011) came to draw attention to this skewed distribution of the objects of study in our field.
We invite the submission of papers that contribute to expanding and enriching theoretically and empirically the STS reflections between centers and peripheries, addressing some of the following lines:
Discussions – empirical or theoretical – on the dynamics of technosciences that cross or exceed diverse contexts.
Case studies (fields, disciplines, problems, etc.) that put in tension traditional perspectives and center-periphery relations.
A reflective look at the “center-periphery” tensions in the development of the STS field itself.
Analysis of new ways of understanding the distribution of power and resources, both in technosciences and in the STS field itself.
Comparative studies on technosciences in various regions of the world.
