Saturday, October 9, 11:30am to 1:00pm EDT

This open panel extends from extensive dialogue about TRANSnational STS at the 2018 annual 4S conference in Sydney, which spawned an array of new collaborations and further conversation. The goal of the panel is to keep the dialogue going and open, taking transnational STS in new directions. 

Chair: Kim Fortun

Discussant: Sharon Traweek

On the Possibility of Philippine STS: Collaborating toward a Special IssuePaul Michael, Leonardo Atienza and Kathleen Gutierrez

Concentricity and Eccentricity: Academic Trajectories of CTS networks in Chile and Argentina, Nicolás Sanhueza

stsing: Doing STS In, Through and Beyond the German Academic System, Stefan Laser, Paula Marie Helm, Laura Kocksch, Ingmar Lippert, Julie Sascia Mewes, & Estrid Sørensen

Telling Stories About Air Pollution and Citizen Action In Kaohsiung City, Chia-Liang Shih, Chia-Hsuan Ho, & Tseng-Yung Kao

Publishing in STS: Agendas, Themes and Practices Among Centers and Peripheries, Pablo Kreimer, Noela Invernizzi, Leandro Rodriguez Medina, and Amilcar Davyt

 

 

ABSTRACTS

On the Possibility of Philippine STS: Collaborating toward a Special Issue

In the Philippines and for its diaspora, our current political climates demonstrate the urgency with which we must expand concepts of STS. The growth of disinformation networks, authoritarian censorship, neocolonial militarism, and the deliberate extraction of labor through...Read more

Concentricity and eccentricity: Academic trajectories of CTS networks in Chile and Argentina

This research is a qualitative study that seeks to understand the co-production processes of peripheral CTS networks and academic careers of social scientists in Chile and Argentina. Through a narrative analysis of their careers, we investigate the perceptions of their interests,...Read more

stsing: Doing STS In, Through And Beyond The German Academic System

With this presentation, we introduce the recently constituted association "stsing", which offers scholars a new platform to "do" STS in and through Germany (therefore the wording "stsing"). Specific about this platform is its attempt at creative and open understanding of collaboration on...Read more

Telling stories about air pollution and citizen action in Kaohsiung city

The petrochemical industry in Taiwan has been developing over 50 years since the 1970’s. Today, the petrochemical industry puts the society at risk due to its aging equipment. The related political, economic, social, and legal systems are also outdated and fossilized. However, the vast...Read more

Publishing in STS: agendas, themes and practices among centers and peripheries

The aim of this presentation is to analyze the structure and dynamics of publication in the STS field, reflexively applying some categories of analysis that we have used to study other fields. To do so, we conducted first a quantitative (bibliometric) methodology to obtain a general map...Read more

PRESENTATIONS

Publishing in STS: agendas, themes and practices among centers and peripheries

Presentation slides of the paper titled "Publishing in STS: Agendas, Themes and Practices Among Centers and Peripheries", to be presented at 4S 2021 in the panel "...Read more

stsing: Doing STS In, Through and Beyond the German Academic System

Paper titled "stsing: Doing STS In, Through and Beyond the German Academic System", to be presented at 4S 2021 in the panel "...Read more