Kaleidos

Transforming the possibilities for Knowledge Production

In Ecuadorian social sciences, interdisciplinary and collaborative approaches are relatively new and rather scarce within academia. Kaleidos has been created as a horizontal decision-making research platform that can welcome a variety of projects under the umbrella of interdisciplinary...Read more

Kaleidos description

Kaleidos – Center for Interdisciplinary Ethnography is a joint effort between the University of Cuenca and FLACSO-Ecuador to promote interinstitutional and interdisciplinary collaborations. Created on April 5, 2018, this ethnography-centered research space in the global south aims to bring together...Read more

Institutionalization : Risks and opportunities

I found it interesting in reading Duygu's comments on Belen's paper her reflection about seeing parallel's between Istanbul Lab and Kaleidos. I also see some resonance with our experience at iHub...Read more

Envisioning a Center for Interdisciplinary Ethnography

A research center in the global south—like Kaleidos—speaks to the history of postcolonial neoliberal construction of academic infrastructures. What this means is that Kaleidos was purposefully set up in the global south. It is part of thinking about the power relations behind academic...Read more

Essay Map

Cyber hate speech on social media: sentiment analysis

Ecuadorian LGBTQ awareness month

Interrupting Air Pollution: Ethnography, Art, and Urban Disruptions in El Vado (Cuenca, Ecuador)

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Cite as (Kaleidos top level essay)

Suarez, Maka, Jorge Nunez, Maria Elissa Torres Carrasco , and Ronny Rafael Zegarra Pena. 2019. “Kaleidoscopic STS: interruptions from the Global South." In Innovating STS Gallery Exhibit, curated by Aalok Khandekar and Kim Fortun. Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science. New...Read more
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