By Sept. 24th, complete the sketch below and submit as a PDF via this form. You do not need to upload your original publication, just the responses to the prompt questions below.

Part 1:

1. Choose a piece of your own writing. It can be unpublished, still in progress, or published a long time ago. It doesn’t matter. Respond to a few or all of the following prompts designed to reflect on your own citational habits:

• Why am I writing this piece? Who do I want to read it and what do I want to convey to someone who is looking at my bibliography?

• Where am I planning to publish this? In what form and with what kind of licensing? Why? Who do I want to cite this work and why?

• Whose voices did I point to for “theory”?

• Whose voices were foregrounded in the piece?

• Which institutions are the scholars I cite situated in intellectually and geographically?

• In what forms/genres were the works that I cited? Did I cite anything outside of the journal article format?

• What are the national, racial, gender (and other) intersectional identities of the intellectuals I have cited? Why/How/Where (in the work)? Have I made clear how their contributions have been generative for my own arguments?

• Do my citations include relevant material by Black, Indigenous, People of Color, especially those working outside of EuroAmerican academic settings? Do I include other frequently uncited or historically marginalized scholars?

• Were the works cited published Open Access? If not, are there other ways to access the work (e.g. a pre-print hosted on a non-commercial platform?) If yes, cite the pre-print, non-commercial version. NOTE: ResearchGate and Academia.edu are for-profit commercial ventures funded by Venture Capitalists.

• Where were the articles I am citing published? Is this a journal outside of the “big five” corporate publishers (Elsevier, Springer, Wiley-Blackwell, Taylor & Francis and Sage)?

• Am I citing works published in university presses or scholarly society journals based in/from the regions I am working in? Am I citing “grey literature”, blogs, zines, etc.?

Part 2:

The Bibliodiversity Project of the T-STS Network contributes to the decentering of dominant STS by building a shared and accessible STS bibliography that actively works against knowledge imperialism and the dominance of EuroAmerican perspectives. There will be an open call for contributions to the bibliography, which will be curated with tags that allow users to easily find scholarship from different places, addressing a wide array of themes.

• List 2-5 references that you think will be helpful for other STS scholars to know of that have been formative for your work and briefly write a narrative about these works that describes how they have shaped your thinking/your being/your practices/your ethics. References do not necessarily need to be in English. The aim is to draw in works that may not necessarily be by scholars who call themselves “STS” or that would locate themselves as “STS” but can inspire and support thinking around STS.