VOLUME 6, 2023
Contents
EDITORIALS
Critical contacts: making STS public amid Mexico’s forensic crisis
Vivette García Deister
On lowering guardrails
James Griesemer
About the covers for Volumes 5 & 6
Luis Reyes-Galindo
The Editorial Team
Translating translation
James Griesemer
Confronting silences
Robert A. Wilson
ARTICLES
In favor of a dialogue between political science and Science Studies
Bruno Latour
Traditional knowledge policy co-production in Colombia and Ecuador
Martha Isabel Gómez Lee & André-Noël Roth Deubel
“Hecho en México”: a media analysis of the first MRT baby
Sandra P. González-Santos & Abril Saldaña-Tejeda
A path of one’s own in the international scientific insertion: on the research trajectory of an Argentine neuroscience laboratory
Luana Ferroni
Governance in socio-environmental research: an analysis of multi-stakeholder cooperation mechanisms in two research laboratories in Yucatan, Mexico
María Elena Giraldo & Eliana Arancibia Gutiérrez
Baroque tools for climate action. What do we learn from a catalogue of local technologies?
Tomas Ariztia, Aline Bravo & Ignacio Nuñez
Rethinking governance through Samarco’s dam collapse in Brazil: a critique from the STS perspective
Luciana Landgraf Castelo Branco
Towards a posthumanistic knowledge production. Multimedia artistic research during the rise of neoliberalism in Mexico
Alberto López Cuenca
Funding of research agendas about the global south in Latin America and the Caribbean: lexicometric and content analysis in Latin American scientific production
Thaiane Moreira de Oliveira & Marcus Vinicius de Jesus Bomfim
Towards pluriversal views of digital technologies: the experiences of community and Indigenous radios in Chiapas, Mexico
Laura Elizabeth Manjarrez
Scalar dissonances, knowledge-making, sense of urgency, and social narratives about the future. Contours of the climate change debate in Latin America
Teresa Guadalupe de León Escobedo
Shaping scientific work in universities in Chile: exploring the role of research management instruments
David Marchant-Cavieres, Carla Fardella, Fernando A. Valenzuela, Juan Felipe Espinosa- Cristia, Paulina E. Varas & Claudio Broitman
Architecture as fluid technology. The housing blocks by Corporación de la Vivienda of Chile
Jorge E. Vergara Vidal
Ancestral plantings. Knowledge in the AfroPacific
Catherine E. Walsh & Juan García Salazar
BOOK REVIEWS
Two analyses of Pratik Chakrabarti's Inscriptions of nature: geology and the naturalization of antiquity
Maria Paz Almenara Unten & N. Bucky Stanton
Knowers of the Unseen: disputes over sufi knowledge and practice. Sorcery or science: contesting knowledge and practice in west African sufi texts
Bárbara Burton
Stevia: Conocimiento, propiedad intelectual y acumulación de capital
Cori Hayden
Conocimientos, sociedades y tecnologías en América Latina: Viejos modelos y desencantos, nuevos horizontes y desafíos
Luciano Levin
Technology of the oppressed: Inequity and the digital mundane in favelas of Brazil
Manuela Rocha & Joabi Santos
THEMATIC CLUSTER: INTERACTION TURNS IN KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION
Introduction
Interaction turns in knowledge production: actors, problems and methodologies
María Goñi Mazzitelli, Camila Zeballos, and Mariela Bianco
“Keep trying and you will keep finding”: social knowledge production regarding the use of medicinal plants in rural communities from Uruguay
Valentina Pereyra Ceretta & Juan Martin Dabezies
Imagining futures within the constraints of the present. The coproduction of anticipatory knowledge in an energy scenarios platform in Argentina
Matthieu Hubert
The spatial dimension in university-social environment interactions. A proposal for the Argentine case
Pablo Sánchez Macchioli, Mariana Eva Di Bello & Fernanda Andrea Soca
Knowing from conflict: interculturality as a space of interaction for the production of knowledges
Adela Parra-Romero
Understanding mechanisms of knowledge co-production in peace research projects supported by international cooperation
Carlos Mauricio Nupia & Laura Valencia Espinosa
Interactive experiences in social science research in Mexico: networking and knowledge mobilization
Rosalba Casas
Enlarging the knowledge transfer realm through engagement with research stakeholders: a conversation attempt with action research
Joaquín M. Azagra-Caro & Alejandra Boni
Epistemic activism and the production of spatial knowledge in Argentina
Oscar Vallejos, Norma Levrand & Gabriel Matharan
Knowledge mobilization in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) researchers: An approach to the Mexican National Health System
Juan Carlos García-Cruz & J. Alexandre Oliveira Vera-Cruz
One alternative health device! A methodological proposal to analyze research projects’ orientation towards national health problems
José Miguel Natera & Soledad Rojas-Rajs
THEMATIC CLUSTER: A NEW HISTORY OF SOCIOLOGY? SOUTHERN PERSPECTIVES
Introduction
A new history of sociology? Southern perspectives
Stéphane Dufoix & Hon-Fai Chen
New classics for the new science – re-reading the basis of sociology in Ecuador until the 1950s
Philipp Altmann
Seminal ideas for old and new problems in Latin America: José Medina Echavarría and his legacy
Laura Angélica Moya López
Karl Marx in Brazil: the reading capital of Capital (1958-2014)
Lidiane Soares Rodrigues
Re-situating Weber-reception in the circulation of knowledge: analyzing the intermediation of Chinese sociologists with overseas trajectory
Po-Fang Tsai
THEMATIC CLUSTER: TRACING OUT SCALABLE LANDSCAPES: INTERPRETATIVE LAYERS OVER PLANTATION DESIGNS
Introduction
Tracing out scalable landscapes: interpretative layers over plantation designs
Ângela Camana & Vanessa P. Perin
Entangled collectives: riverine people, landscapes and emerged infrastructures on a climate change background
Aline Radaelli & Júlia Menin
Changes in the landscape, threats, and the struggle of the Quilombola communities from Alto Trombetas for their territories
Julia Dalla Costa, Vanessa Flores dos Santos & Eleandra Raquel da Silva Koch
Plantation designs in northern Mozambique: development, struggles and (re)compositions facing the ProSAVANA program
Vanessa P. Perin
THEMATIC CLUSTER: CITIZEN SCIENCE (PART 2)
Citizen science “from the margins”: epistemologies of ignorance in the Movement of Women with Endometriosis in Mexico
Julieta Piña-Romero
Critical mass: the creation of Pajarero*/Birder communities in Mexico for citizen science
L. Arturo Vallejo-Novoa
Pollution, obligation, and care: perspectives from artisanal and small-scale gold mining and farming in rural Colombia
Jessica Smith, Cecilia Schroeder, Kathleen Smits, Juan Lucena & Oscar Restrepo Baena
MISCELLANEOUS
Acknowledgements
Vivette García Deister