Socio-Technical Geographies from the End of the World: A Story of STS in Chile

The recent emergence of the community of researchers on Science, Technology and Society studies in Chile dates back approximately half a decade ago. These narratives and questions about knowledge and its materiality in our country have deep-rooted in politics, communication and history processes. In this sample, one representation of the multiple possibles narratives of the emergence and evolution of the RedCTS and its ramifications throughout the territory of Chile is sought, analysing its geographical, epistemic, value and ontological positions, which allow to disseminate how a rhizome of people can become a community, which is found and co-produced through a chain of emails, meetings, alliances and multiple debates. This Geography will be deployed by visualization techniques of networks, maps and images that allow exploring, both materially and digitally, the connections that narrate the questions and trace the local roots of Science, Technology and Society Studies in Chile, with emphasis on the decade 2008-2018. We hope that this exhibition will allow us to elaborate a collective reflection on mobility, the trans-disciplinary construction and the center-peripheral tensions of our community in front of the Latin American geo-region and the world.

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