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Call for Open Panels EASST-4S 2024
Published On: Sep 19, 2023
The Call for Open Panels for EASST-4S 2024, from 16 till 19 July in Amsterdam, is now open. Submit your Open Panel proposal until October 23rd.
CFP for a special issue of Science, Technology & Human values
Published On: Aug 2, 2023
Deadline: Sep 14, 2023
The editors of Science, Technology, & Human Values and guest editors Canay Özden-Schilling and Emily Chua are calling for proposed papers for an upcoming Special Issue.
Pre-conference Writing Workshop in coordination with the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) meeting Honolulu, Hawaii
Published On: Jul 29, 2023
Deadline: Aug 25, 2023
Seeking early-career scholars for a highly-interactive 1.5-day workshop to take place in the two days before the meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) to be held in Honolulu, Hawaii. The Workshop will draw together journal editors from 4S-affiliated journals – Social Studies of Science; Science, Technology, & Human Values; East Asian Science and Technology Studies; Engaging Science, Technology and Society; Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience; Tapuya: Latin Ame...
4S Publications
Science, Technology, and Human Values
For more than forty years, Science, Technology, & Human Values has provided the forum for cutting-edge research and debate in the field of science and technology studies.
Toward an Upgrade of Gaia-politics: A View from the East Asian Critical Zone
Paul Jobin
Science, Technology, & Human Values, Ahead of Print.
Although Bruno Latour had limited interaction with East Asia, translations of his work contributed to the development of Science and Technology Studies (STS) in that part...
Gene Editing in Agriculture: Social Concerns, Public Engagement, and Governance
Theresa Selfa
Science, Technology, & Human Values, Ahead of Print.
This special issue reflects a variety of methodological and critical perspectives on contemporary issues regarding social concerns, public engagement, and governance of...
Scripts of Alterity: Mapping Assumptions and Limitations of the Border Security Apparatus through Classification Schemas
Annalisa Pelizza
Science, Technology, & Human Values, Ahead of Print.
This article empirically maps and compares types of knowledge produced about people on the move by the European border security apparatus. Exploring two complementary analytical...
Latour and After, or What Comes After Latour?
Courtney Addison
Science, Technology, & Human Values, Ahead of Print.
Furthering Ontological Pluralism, Maybe: The Strange Case of the Microbial Recordings
Tiago Moreira
Science, Technology, & Human Values, Ahead of Print.
This paper describes the trials and tribulations of drawing on Latour’s work on ontological pluralism (An Inquiry into the Mode of Existence) to make sense of a series...
Engaging Science, Technology and Society
Engaging Science, Technology, & Society is an online, open access publication of The Society for Social Studies of Science.
Towards Transnational STS
Published On: Aug 31 2023
Clément Dréano, Noela Invernizzi, Duygu Kaşdoğan, Ali Kenner, Angela Okune, Grant Jun Otsuki, Sujatha Raman, Tim Schütz, Federico Vasen, Amanda Windle, Emily York
Transnational dialogues in STS matter and are at the heart of ESTS, exemplified by this issue. Two Original Research Articles, the first by Lucía Céspedes (2023) and the second co-authored by Gonçalo Santos, Naubahar Sharif,...
Sociolinguistic and Translingual Practices in the Discourse of Astronomers in Argentina
Published On: Feb 26 2023
Lucía Céspedes
This paper examines the sociolinguistic practices of a particular scientific and discourse community. To that end, I analyze seminars delivered by PhD students of astronomy at the Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Astronomy...
Translating STS in China: Disciplinary Struggles and Future Prospects
Published On: Feb 26 2023
Gonçalo D. Santos, Naubahar Sharif, Jack Linzhou Xing
This article analyzes a debate in Mainland China over how to designate and integrate the international field of STS (science and technology studies) in Chinese academia. Emerged at the turn of the millennium, this debate confirmed...
TRANSnationalizing STS: Places, Spaces, and Politics
Published On: Feb 23 2023
Duygu Kaşdoğan, Angela Okune
Why, how, and for whom does it matter to walk through, attend and attune to plural and complex STS places/spaces? By building on the STS Across Borders and Innovating STS exhibits held at 4S 2018 and 2019 meetings, this thematic...
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