STS Across Borders

Reviewing March's Vision

In this article, Donncha Kavanagh employs archival reserach, oral history, and secondary sources to recount the initial conditions and inspirations behind Jim March's radically unorthodox School of Social Sciences at the University of California Irvine.Read more

Brave New Genetics?

This essay considers the politics of the 'eugenicist dream' of genetically engineering 'desireable' character traits and dispositions, particularly in relation to gender and sexuality. 

The artifact comes from the Max Charlesworth archive, currently held at Deakin University.Read more

We Have Never Been Latecomers!?: Making Knowledge Spaces for East Asian Technosocial Practices

Wen-yuan Lin and John Law argue in this 2015 article that to highlight practices from East Asia or other locations is possible but problematic because emphasis on locality surfaces histories of area studies and evolutionary narratives.Read more

Book Review: STS Handbook, 4th edition

This review of the handbook is both good/positive and critical of the low number of authors from outside the US and Europe.Read more

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