Sep 7 2026
In Making Do, Conservation Ethics and Ecological Care in Australia (2026), Mardi Reardon-Smith (University of Monash) provides ethnographic insights to the ways in which 'care' brings humans, nonhumans, and landscapes of Cape York together through the practices and politics of 'making do'. This book review features stunning photography taken by Reardon-Smith during their time in the field, and an interview with the author.
Nov 24 2025
Behavioral ecologist and feminist science studies scholar unite to offer paradigm shifting possibilities in an endlessly teachable new book: Feminism in the Wild.
Jun 9 2025
On Hunger: Violence and Craving in America from Starvation to Ozempic (2025; UC Press) is a timely and compelling contribution to Science and Technology Studies (STS) and History of Science (HOS). Extending common threads woven throughout their prior work on vital minimums, Dr. Dana Simmons addresses an enduring pattern in United States history: the production of hunger. This book traces the production of hunger throughout the nineteenth to the present, articulating the ways in which hunger is c...
Nov 4 2024
What does our growing obsession with shit and bodily leakage tell us about being modern, enlightened, and objective? Can we think without the dialectic of the sphincter, that alternation between containment and discharge, sovereignty and submission?
Aug 11 2025
Ludovico Rella (Durham University) reviews 'A Place for Science and Technology Studies: Observation, Intervention, and Collaboration' by situating Calvert's insights on STS and place through the lens of Geography and space. This is the first of a two-part series, including a forthcoming interview with Dr. Calvert discussing the place of this text within the shifting landscape of STS.
Aug 25 2025
Following a recent review of 'A Place for Science and Technology Studies: Observation, Intervention, and Collaboration' (MIT Press, 2024) published by 4S Backchannels, author Jane Calvert (University of Edinburgh) discusses their new book with Aaron Gregory (Editor, 4S Backchannels).
Sep 30 2024
While today feminist science studies and STS are often considered inseparable, Daiwie Fu examines their once tumultuous relationship. In this post, he offers a brief review of the convergence between feminist studies and STS.
Jun 12 2023
In this post, Hannah Star Rogers invites the readers into the growing space of art and STS exhibitions in her review of the show "Picturing the Invisible" curated by Makaoto Takahashi.
Jun 27 2022
In this post, David Kananizadeh reflects on decolonizing STS and what Souleymane Bachir Diagne's book "The Ink of the Scholars" might contribute to this debate.
Jan 3 2022
This post captures the previous year of Backchannels’ publications covered as a curation of lists.