Kaleidoscopic STS: interruptions from the global south

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At Kaleidos - Center for Interdisciplinary Ethnography at University of Cuenca & FLACSO - Ecuador, we envision STS as a kaleidoscopic intervention into economics, ethics, knowledge, and politics from the global south. We explore how novel academic infrastructures can become pathways for interrupting and regenerating the field of STS. Through a series of collaborative essays we render visible in this exhibit the many ethnographic approaches to STS in Cuenca, Ecuador; from environmental governance, to disability studies, LGBTQ+ algorithms, and financial frontiers, we interrogate how the anthropocene unfolds on the ground. Our aim here is to showcase how STS has enabled us to promote collaborative projects that tie together universities, industries, publics, and institutions in new and mutually attractive modalities of interdisciplinarity and interdependence. The field of STS has allowed Kaleidos to open up the imagination of researchers in multiple fields of study who can look into this approach as a way of combining and collaborating through their different fields of expertise.

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Creative Commons Licence

Contributed date

July 23, 2019 - 12:50am

Critical Commentary

A contribution to the Innovating STS exhibit NOLA 2019

Language

English

Location

Cuenca
Ecuador

Cite as

Maka Suarez; Jorge Nunez, "Kaleidoscopic STS: interruptions from the global south", contributed by Jorge Nunez , Maka Suarez and María Elissa Torres Carrasco, STS Infrastructures, Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, last modified 1 August 2019, accessed 21 November 2024. https://stsinfrastructures.org/content/kaleidoscopic-sts-interruptions-global-south-1