Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society

Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society is an international open access journal seeking to enable a network of STS-informed conversations within Latin America, between Latin America and Euro-American cultures, and across global peripheries. It seeks to increase the complexity of the STS scholarly landscape by pushing conventional STS boundaries to include issues, perspectives and methods relevant to Latin America. Tapuya thus intends to contribute to earlier efforts to parochialize Euro-American STS and thus truly internationalize STS through the journal’s attention to distinctively Latin American critical discussions and productive tensions, both scholarly and political.

Tapuya seeks to explore not only the diversity and richness of Latin American STS issues, perspectives and research methods and evidence of the many creative flows of influence that exist between Latin America, Euro-American cultures, and other peripheries, but also resources for STS periphery studies.

The journal’s title "Tapuya" derives from the Quechua word “tapuy” which means “to question", and more broadly refers to knowledge-making as a questioning process. “Tapuy” is also a word that names the non-native way that the 16th Century colonizers spoke Quechua. Finally, today's anti-colonial theorists have called on the purported identity of this group as cannibals to articulate their own practice of "swallowing" Northern practices and transforming them into something distinctively Latin American. "Tapuya", therefore, has relevance as a title on a number of levels.

Tapuya welcomes submissions that focus on empirical research, theoretical analyses, or literature and book reviews.

Proposals for Thematic Clusters ("special issues")
Scholars wishing to submit a collection of papers on a relevant topic should contact the Editor-in-Chief to discuss tasks in editing such a collection. This Clusters Editor may invite submissions individually, or design a Call for Proposals which the journal will display. They will plan for every preferred submission to be peer-reviewed, and also plan to write an Introduction to the Cluster.

Editorial policies

Tapuya is an open access peer-reviewed journal published in English by Routledge (part of the Taylor & Francis Group). All editorial decisions are made by Latin Americans. The journal only publishes manuscripts that meet the highest-standards of global academic publication. These must follow the guidelines provided on the website in the instructions for authors.

Those submissions deemed by the Editor-in-Chief and the Senior Editorial Team to be of the highest-quality will be published regardless of authors’ ability to pay the Article Publication Charges (APCs), which are US$850/£670/€775.

Authors based in Latin America are eligible for a 77% discount off the APC. Authors should request the discount code prior to submission by contacting [email protected].

Waivers for APCs can be requested by all authors regardless of background and will be appraised by the Publisher and the Editors based on individual circumstances and the ability to pay. Those who are truly unable to afford the APCs will receive full waivers. This includes many Latin Americans, as well as graduate students, independent researchers, and researchers from around the globe who do not have grants or other funds for publication costs. Please reach out to [email protected] to request a waiver code ahead of submission.

Sponsors & Affiliations

Tapuya is sponsored by the Latin American Institute, the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, and the Luskin School of Public Affairs at University of California Los Angeles (USA), and by the Universidad de las Americas Puebla (Mexico). It is affiliated with the Asociación Latinoamericana de Estudios Sociales de la Ciencia y la Tecnología (ESOCITE) and with the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S).

Read our Blog: Tapuya.la

Peer Review Policy

All submitted manuscripts are subject to initial appraisal by the Editors, and if found suitable for further consideration, to peer review by independent, anonymous expert referees. The Editors are supported by an active Editorial Board and an International Advisory Board. All refereeing is double anonymized. Submissions can be made online at: http://www.edmgr.com/ttap.

Guidelines for reviewers can be found via this link.

Publishing Ethics

The Journal adheres to the highest standards of publishing ethics, with rigorous processes in place to ensure this is achieved. Taylor & Francis is a member of Committee of Publications Ethics (COPE) and utilizes CrossCheck for all Journals. More information on our ethical standards and policies can be found here: http://authorservices.taylorandfrancis.com/ethics-for-authors.
The Journal has an appeals and complaints policy which can be viewed here: https://authorservices.taylorandfrancis.com/peer-review-appeals-and-complaints-from-authors/.

All articles will be made freely and permanently available online through gold open access publication.

Read the Instructions for Authors for information on how to submit your article.