This book enriches Latin American Science and Technology Studies by making a pioneering contribution to theories from its geopolitical margins. Rather than merely challenging Northern dominance, it fosters dialogue between Northern and Southern scholars, highlighting the complex, multi-situated development of science and technology and contributing to the field's diversification and internationalization.

Brings together a wide array of theoretical contributions in Science and Technology Studies from Latin America Portrays the originality of this production whilst addressing key obstacles to theorising from the peripheries Contributes to the circulation and diversification of STS theory in both Global North and Global South contexts

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Noela Invernizzi is a Full Professor at the Education School and the Public Policy Graduate Program of the Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brazil.

Leandro Rodriguez Medina is Full Professor of Sociology, in the Department of Sociology at Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Azcapotzalco, Mexico.

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‘This volume is a much-needed contribution in the field of Science and Technology Studies. By theorizing from a Latin American perspective, it challenges the Northern pseudo-universalism that has long dominated the field. It’s a shake-up, demanding that we reconsider our assumptions about whose perspectives shape theory. This is a true testament to the power of theorizing from the margins.’

–—Dominique Vinck, Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lausanne, Switzerland.

‘This edited volume focusing on theorizing STS from Latin America is a very timely intervention to the politics of STS; it brilliantly opens a progressive space to attend and attune to the stories from the margins through leveraging their creative capacity to see the technoscientific worlds otherwise and respond to today’s challenging problems in innovative ways.’

—Duygu Kädo an, zmir Katip Çelebi University, Turkey

‘This book fills a significant gap in Latin American Science, Technology, and Society (STS) studies by addressing the challenge of theorization, which is often absent or fragmented in the field. Its principal contribution lies in acknowledging that theory development is a collective endeavor and that synthesizing diverse studies to establish connections among findings is both essential and inevitable.’ **

—Michelle Chauvet, Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Azcapotzalco, Mexico

This book enriches Latin American Science and Technology Studies by making a pioneering contribution to theories from its geopolitical margins. Rather than merely challenging Northern dominance, it fosters dialogue between Northern and Southern scholars, highlighting the complex, multi-situated development of science and technology and contributing to the field’s diversification and internationalization.

Noela Invernizzi is a Full Professor at the Education School and the Public Policy Graduate Program of the Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brazil.

Leandro Rodriguez Medina is Full Professor of Sociology, in the Department of Sociology at Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Azcapotzalco, Mexico.

Inhalt

Chapter 1: On the notion and theorization of peripheral science.- Chapter 2: The subordinate integration in the production and circulation of knowledge: origin, development and rewritings.- Chapter 3: Give Me the World and I Will Raise Laboratories: Veiled Provincialism and Geopolitics of Knowledge in Latin American STS.- Chapter 4: Latin American Infrastructure Studies: On the fragility of modernist projects.- Chapter 5: Towards a Bio-Sociotechnical Systems Approach: considerations and evidences based on communicable diseases.- Chapter 6: Gender and the aspirational biomedicalization of sexual risk.- Chapter 7: Technologies and knowledge in gray zones.- Chapter 8: Social Technology: historical development and appropriations of the concept.- Chapter 9: The Engaged Engineering and (other) technological fields (EETF) Program A Review from a Latin American Perspective.- Chapter 10: Local eco-innovation: contributions to the debate on sustainable innovation.- Chapter 11: Bringing convivial tools into STS Studies. The intersection of artistic practices, agri-food, and technoscience in Latin America.- Chapter 12: Cognitive Materialism: A Theory on Capitalism and Knowledge.- Chapter 13: Socio-technical analysis in action: Processes of construction of working/non-working of technologies.- Chapter 14: Citation Functions and Their Role in Scientific Organization.- Chapter 15: Transversality: The Emergence of an Environmental Ethic in Climate Governance.- Chapter 16: Technological Bargaining: Limits and Potentials of Labor Agency in the Face of Technological Change.- Chapter 17: Breaking the deficit-dialogue binary with hybrids: Opening-up science-society framings from the South.