STS (Anthropology)

The ethnographic analysis of a recent incident-the death of an indigenous teacher in a road accident-reveals the everyday impact of the mechanization of indigenous life in Lowland South America and, in particular, the dilemmas involved by growing use and dissemination of motorcycles among the Chacobo (Panoan) of Bolivian Amazonia. The accident becomes a social drama that needs to be interpreted in terms of several contexts of Chacobo culture and, at the same time, reveals broader social, economic, technological, symbolic and environmental transformations that are currently shaping indigenous life in Lowland South America. Keywords: Motorcycles. Mechanization. Accidents. Indigenous peoples. Amazonia.

From trucks and bulldozers to smaller tools like chainsaws and electric generators, a massive influx of machinery is currently reshaping Latin America’s peripheral landscapes. This process of mechanical colonization introduces disruptive and often violent forms of acceleration that profoundly impact environments and societies. Drawing on anthropology, history, and geography, this volume analyzes mechanical accidents as critical events. These events are not random fatalities but reveal tensions between machines, territories, and societies, prompting a re-evaluation of concepts like materiality, agency and causality.

Developments in Attachment Research explores the contributions of several research groups in developmental science that have shaped the study of attachment and caregiving in recent decades, each with a different image of the history of attachment research, of the nature of attachment, and why and how attachment research might be valuable. In tracing changes in attachment theory over time, the book examines the development of scientific evidence and breakthroughs. The book also examines attachment research within developmental psychology as a culture, considering its leadership, kinship structures, symbols, conflicts, points of entry or exit, and the pressures and opportunities to which it has responded or failed to respond.

This thesis confirmed Kim Tae-joon’s socialist activities, which have not been clearly established previously due to prejudice, based on the primary data, and reconstructed his activities in the Keijo communist group in detail. The conventional idea that he was a socialist is based on his involvement in the Economic Research Association [經濟硏究會], the Anti-Imperialist Alliance [反帝同盟], the Miyake Incident at Keijo Imperial University, and an entertainment group for partisans in Mount Jiri, but the evidence regarding all of these has proved weak. Kim’s  decision to participate in the Keijo communist group involved a variety of factors besides his ideological orientation, such as his research funding. After his arrest, he described himself as having turned from nationlism to liberalism and back to communism. Kim sought to minimize damage to his acquaintances through such measures as maintaining silence about his academic colleagues. In their investigation, the authorities sought to elicit a confession by such means as threats his family, eventually leading Kim to confess that he was “Japanese”, which was rejected. Through this work of empirical restoration, this thesis urges reconsideration of the conventional idea concerning socialism and nationalist/socialist binary of South Korea.

De acuerdo con la Organización Internacional del Trabajo (oit), entre el 40 % y el 60 % de la población económicamente activa de América Latina obtiene su subsistencia y la de sus familias de actividades económicas informales 1. Para el Estado colombiano, la eliminación de la informalidad es un objetivo de política pública que oscila entre ofertas de formalización y asedio permanente de las chazas 2 por la fuerza policial, que arremete contra ellas porque, para el Ministerio de Hacienda, la informalidad es sinónimo de evasión y contrabando; para el Ministerio del Trabajo, es trabajo ilegal y precario como quiera que no paga ni

A dam is a barrier/structure that impounds water and retains it for later use. Thus, it plays an important role and offers a reserve stock of water for rural communities in remote areas. The present study was conducted to assess the socioeconomic impact of small dams on local communities. The impact was analyzed based on descriptive statistics and t-paired sample tests using SPSS software to study and analyze the Nagarparkar area, Sindh, Pakistan. Primary and secondary data were used for collecting the data. The data was collected randomly from 250 people through interviews and group discussions Also, 104 sets of data were obtained through a questionnaire survey. The overall results summary of the parameters revealed that a significantly positive variation occurred in the study area after construction of the dam. The number of the packa houses and water depth were increased. The distance to collect water and water-fetching time were decreased 6% and 5.61 % respectively. The overall average area cultivated with crops was increased by 26.55%. The average yield of almost every crop in both Rabi and Kharif seasons were increased by 55% in the areas surrounding the dams. The overall number of livestock was increased by 18.08%, while the number of horses decreased by 1.5% after construction of the dam. The income, expenditure, and savings have increased significantly to 36.16%, 17.68%, and 32.15%, respectively, while the migration rate has decreased19.09% since construction of the dam. The choice of crops has also changed from inferior crops to superior and market-oriented crops. The water table and quality have improved, and wells have been recharged.

Esta investigação se desenha em torno de um campo científico emergente, a Astrobiologia, bem como das práticas e dos discursos dos e das cientistas que conduzem pesquisas astrobiológicas. O projeto parte de um estudo etnográfico conduzido no AstroLab, primeiro e único laboratório dedicado exclusivamente à Astrobiologia no Brasil e localizado na Universidade de São Paulo (USP), entre 2020 e 2023, com participação-observante conduzida tanto remota quanto presencialmente. Acompanho os e as astrobiólogas que atuam no AstroLab durante o desenvolvimento de suas pesquisas, no intuito de mapear os questionamentos levantados por eles e elas, bem como os recursos materiais e conceituais que mobilizam para respondê-los. Proponho que a Astrobiologia nutra um paradigma ─ no sentido kuhniano ─, o qual embasa e embala as atividades desenvolvidas ao longo de suas malhas científicas, que podem ser lidas a partir dos enquadramentos propostos por Thomas Kuhn (1998) de “ciência normal” e “resolução de quebra-cabeças”. Embora não haja uma teoria unificadora em torno da vida, tampouco a detecção de vida extraterrestre como um fato sancionado, os e as astrobiólogas utilizam certos organismos e paisagens de nosso planeta para ensaiar a vida alhures, trabalhando ativamente para caracterizá-la como um fenômeno cósmico em vez de uma exclusividade terrestre.

In Poland, homeopathic practitioners don't have an easy life. Among their medical colleagues, they are accused of using a method that is, at best, a placebo and unscientific. On the other hand, they are accused by believers of using magical means that threaten not only the health of patients but also induce possession or facilitate Satan's attacks on them and, of course, on themselves.

Evidence that the first accusation is false is that meta-analyses have shown that the effect of homeopathic remedies is greater than placebo, meaning that they are effective. The second accusation can also be refuted – the medical literature has not found a statistically significant link between the use of homeopathic remedies and mental disorders in patients as a result of these medications. Historically, many popes permitted the use of homeopathic remedies in the 19th and 20th centuries and even supported it.
Contemporary research into the mechanisms of action of homeopathic preparations, using quantum physics and bioelectronics, enables us to discover how these preparations work at the submolecular level. The quantum level of life is where the effects of homeopathic preparations are observable and measurable, and their impact on the molecular level in living organisms can also be described, for example, through their influence on enzyme function.

The paper narrates an Austrian research program in the area of transdisciplinary sustainability research, which strongly inscribes itself into the promise that bringing together the knowledge and expertise of various (scientific and extra-scientific) actors provides a chance to get a handle on complex societal problems-such as climate change. Starting from the observation that the majority of funded projects makes use of computer modeling and simulation to bring together the knowledge of scientific and extra-scientific actors, the paper aims to understand computer simulation and modeling as "integration machines." Inspired by the way they are presented in the projects themselves in a first place, the notion of the integration machine points to the dynamics of attempts to involve a variety of scientific and extra-scientific actors and the epistemic practice s held appropriate to do so. Based on the analysis of the ways how computer simulations and models are discursively designed in different arenas of discussion, development and dissemination (e.g., proposals, publications, interviews, focus groups, project meetings), the paper carves out how "integration machines" incorporate imaginations, hopes and promises, and how they translate between a multiplicity of ascribed attributions. Crucially, the paper attends to different "performative" dimensions of integration machines, showing how they include but also exclude certain kinds of knowledge, how they assume a distinct distribution of responsibilities, and how they (re)produce orders, roles, and identities within the relation between science and society.

Si la science est souvent pensée comme une entreprise universelle, son histoire et ses modalités d’émergence varient pourtant selon les contextes historiques, géopolitiques, technologiques, culturels. En France, de nombreux travaux (Blondiaux et Richard, 1999 ; Blanquet, 2002 ; Tétu, 2002 ; Boure, 2007 ; Fleury et Walter, 2007 ; Dacheux, 2009) portant sur « l’histoire officielle » des Sciences de l’information et de la communication (SIC) soulignent une institutionnalisation, favorisée par une demande sociale, en 1975 et sa consolidation à partir de 1980 (Boure, 2002). Discipline récente tant sur le plan institutionnel que sur celui de la production des idées et des théories, les SIC se sont très vite étendues à l’Afrique francophone (Atenga, 2019).
Au Cameroun, nous constatons qu’elles constituent un « objet de connaissance » (Miège, 2004) depuis près d’une soixantaine d’années. Elles sont souvent conçues et enseignées à partir des modèles importés, en référence ici aux influences des traditions académiques anglo-saxonnes et françaises. Cette situation s’inscrit dans la continuité d’un héritage colonial encore prégnant dans les structures universitaires du pays. Il convient de souligner, par ailleurs, qu’une production scientifique de plus en plus massive est perceptible dans ce domaine. Même si celle-ci reste largement ignorée à l’international (Atenga, 2019), ou encore « en attente de reconnaissance » (Cabedoche, 2023 : 451). Cet état de choses pose le problème des modalités d’ancrage et d’énonciation de la recherche depuis un espace ou un territoire donné. Comme l’a souligné Donna Haraway (1988), la production des savoirs est toujours « située », c’est-à-dire inscrite dans des rapports sociaux, des territoires, des langues et des régimes de pouvoir scientifiques. Cette dynamique permet d’inscrire cette réflexion dans une épistémologie qui considère la production et la circulation des savoirs comme indissociable des rapports de pouvoir. La problématique au cœur de cette réflexion s’intitule comme suit : comment se sont constituées les « SIC camerounaises » ? Dans quelle mesure leur institutionnalisation reflète-t-elle une dépendance aux modèles épistémologiques exogènes ? Cette étude s’inscrit dans une perspective critique de la production des savoirs en contexte postcolonial. Elle mobilise le concept de colonialité des savoirs (Quijano, 2007 ; Mignolo, 2014). Il est surtout question d’interroger les rapports de pouvoir qui structurent l’enseignement et la recherche, notamment à travers la reconduction de modèles académiques occidentaux dans les universités camerounaises (Tsehaye & Vieille-Grosjean, 2018 ; Kane, 2012). Cette forme de dépendance intellectuelle (Ndlovu-Gatsheni, 2018) participe à la marginalisation des épistémologies africaines. De même qu’elle renforce la déconnexion entre les savoirs transmis et les réalités socio-culturelles locales (Mbembe, 2016). Des auteurs comme Jean Copans (2010) estiment, cependant, que cette domination n’est pas uniquement exogène. Elle est aussi reproduite de l’intérieur, par les élites académiques africaines elles-mêmes.
La méthodologie adoptée s’articule autour de deux outils mobilisés pour mieux rendre compte des phénomènes observés. Nous avons, d’abord, mené une analyse documentaire en se basant notamment sur les programmes de formation, bibliographies, mémoires de recherche et cadrages institutionnels. Nous avons également eu recours à la démarche ethnographique. Celle-ci a consisté à observer et à prendre part à des activités scientifiques et pédagogiques à l’Université de Douala et de Yaoundé I. Ainsi, notre participation à des séances de cours avec des étudiants, de soutenances de mémoires et thèses de doctorat et des séminaires avec des étudiants, des doctorants et enseignants-chercheurs en SIC, lors de nos récents séjours au Cameroun (18 juillet-3 août 2022 ; 20 juillet-2 août 2023 ; 29 juin-15 août 2025), s’est avérée indispensable. Étant nous-mêmes impliqué dans le champ des SIC en tant qu’enseignant-chercheur, le recours à l’approche de l’ « objectivation participante » (Bourdieu, 2003) s’est avérée nécessaire pour concilier immersion dans le terrain et distanciation analytique. Pour ce faire, nous avons adopté une posture réflexive sur notre propre trajectoire intellectuelle, institutionnelle et scientifiques, en nous appuyant sur les « expériences de soi » (Ngono, 2021). 
Les résultats montrent que le développement des SIC au Cameroun s’est construit autour de deux logiques complémentaires : cognitive et sociale. Ils démontrent enfin que les savoirs locaux en SIC sont encore largement dominés par des cadres épistémologiques occidentaux. Bien qu’une prise de conscience, encore timide, semble amorcer l’émergence d’une épistémè locale cherchant à se dégager de l’influence coloniale. Bien qu’une prise de conscience, encore timide, semble amorcer l’émergence d’une épistémè locale visant à s’affranchir de l’influence coloniale, la production scientifique reste largement encadrée par des logiques dominantes. Ce maintien s’opère notamment par un « transfert de modèles » (Correa et Ndiaye, 2023) qui perpétue une forme de dépendance épistémique et empêche les savoirs produits localement de s’autonomiser face aux paradigmes importés.

This essay examines the limitations of Cartesian dualisms, particularly the separations of mind and body, subject and object, and individual and society, within anthropological thought. Drawing on Thomas Csordas’ paradigm of embodiment, it argues that human existence is best understood as a unified, lived experience in which mind and body are inseparable. Engaging with foundational theorists such as Merleau-Ponty, Mauss, and Bourdieu, as well as ethnographic and interdisciplinary contributions from Scheper-Hughes, Lock, and contemporary feminist scholarship, the discussion demonstrates that collapsing these dualisms provides a more nuanced understanding of the embodied self as the existential foundation of culture.

To think of Bosnia is to think of war, but militarization precedes and exceeds war, as socialist Yugoslavia located much of its military industry here. The toxic gift of socialist militarization enables people in a small industrial town to survive and stay home at the same time as unfiltered toxic waste makes this home less habitable, poisoning their beloved river. The residents, this article shows, are equally people of the military factory and people of the river, and have to reconcile this dual inheritance. Historicizing the gendered inheritance of socialist militarization and contextualizing neoliberal dispossession and deregulation, this article examines how residents articulate a furtive critique of industrial toxicity in the extended domestic sphere, by which I mean the intimate gatherings in people’s yards and on neighborhood walks and riverside benches that comprise the interstices between public and private where much of Bosnian life is lived. Ethnographically, the article attends to the felt embodiments of dual riverine and militarized inheritance, illuminating furtive complaints of toxicity and poignant fragments of memory told in passing in the extended domestic sphere. Here, residents reclaim their inheritance of the river, planting seeds of dissent and survivance.

The chaotic implementation of lockdown measures in Shanghai in the spring of 2022 generated widespread feelings of anxiety, frustration, and despair among residents from different rungs of socioeconomic strata. This article archives and analyzes personal narratives mostly by educated middle-class urbanites to understand how they made sense of their being during the lockdown and probes the social conditions structuring these feelings and the subsequent pall of silence. It argues that the Shanghai lockdown is not an exceptional event but a crystalizing moment of a generalized condition of alienation under state capitalism that has been gradually taking hold on Chinese society. Nor can the loss of control over one's world under the extreme conditions of lockdown be solely attributed to coercion and manipulation by external forces. By employing alienation as an interpretive scheme, this article reveals the complex and often subtle ways in which people became both victims and perpetrators of their alienated condition.

Stem cells are fundamental devices of biomedical practice based on the notion that the body is able to supply the medication necessary to prolong life. Consequently, the concept of biotechnological autonomy is formulated, which is important for our analysis of longevity, an analogy to the analysis of fi niteness. In this paper, discourses were evaluated in which these practices are interpreted as “technologies of hope” or “of longevity”, stem cells being the means by which the biosciences promise to postpone death and control various diseases. We have sought to show how a mentality of aging and decrepitude is being overcome by the idea of longevity, forged by technologies that aim to recover the embryonic atavism of rebirth.

In Transspecies Architecture, Andrés Jaque advances a conceptual framework that reconceives architecture as inherently more‑than‑human: transspecies, transmaterial, and transscalar. He argues that every architectural act is a process of collective becoming, in which entities conventionally accounted as separate — human, non‑human, biological, mineral, technological — are co‑constituted. Architecture, in this view, is not merely spatial construction or form but an ensemble of relations and encounters across scales of life, matter, environment, and time.

Through projects undertaken by his Office for Political Innovation since 2003, Jaque explores how design can engage with political ecology, social studies of science and technology, posthumanism, and queer and trans theory. These explorations occur in diverse sites and media — from domestic spaces, laboratories, museums and industrial sites, to embryos, soils, mosses, and architectural surfaces — to show how architectural agency can be exerted via low‑tech materials, biological processes (such as fermentation, microbial growth), and via material entanglements which question extractivism and anthropocentrism.

One exemplary case is The Transspecies Kitchen / Antwerphagia (2024), which renders cooking a post‑carbon, more‑than‑human practice. This project dilutes boundaries between cooking, eating, fermenting and decomposing; it treats metabolism as a collective phenomenon; and it positions architecture as infrastructure for ecological and social alliances of mutual care among heterogeneous bodies. Jaque’s work thus suggests that the future of architecture lies not in heroic forms, but in relational, environmental, and political entanglements that reorganize our sense of agency, belonging, and responsibility.

Ši monografija – tai pokalbiai apie tai, kas yra meninis tyrimas, koks yra jo episteminis statusas, ir kokios jo teisės bei pareigos mums jau žinomų mokslinio tyrimo strategijų apsuptyje.

Autoriai naviguoja tankiose, kartais sunkiai įžengiamose humanitarikos ir meninės praktikos džiunglėse, pasitelkdami filosofijos, menotyros, komunikacijos mokslų, mokslo ir technologijos studijų (STS) metodus, kurie skaitytojų labui derinami su metaforomis bei ornitologine optika.

Monografijoje ieškoma tinkamiausių episteminių bei metodologinių perspektyvų, padedančių adekvačiau suprasti ir įvertinti tiek meninį tyrimą, tiek pačius menininkus-tyrėjus, tiek meno doktorantūros praktikas.

„Tad kviečiame prisijungti prie mūsų ornitologinės kelionės, kurioje vietoje turistinių įžymybių siūlome pažingsniuoti nemažiau įdomiais, tačiau nuošalesniais takais. Keliaudami ne tik praplėsite savo žinias, bet ir galėsite atpažinti gegutę ar kokį kitą paukštį tiek savyje, tiek savo kolegose.“

This class analyzes the shift from the “global” to the “planetary” in the social sciences and humanities in the last decade. We will explore how we come to know a changing planet as an object of knowledge through readings on models, sensors, health, images, bodily experience, material things, and other forms of construction, sense-making, and metabolism. The course starts with readings on the relationship between the global scale, the nation, and the territory and then moves on to an analysis of competing periodizations of the Anthropocene. We will explore the ways climate change is disaggregated ethnographically with an emphasis on the blurry boundaries between climate change and other environmental issues on the ground. We will then move on to different theoretical frameworks for understanding the planetary concept arising during the Cold War (Gaia theory, indigenous philosophy, growth vs. de-growth, the world risk society, etc.) before moving on to the problem of governing across national territories on a highly-interconnected planet. Finally, we will explore emerging trends in anthropology and science and technology studies (STS) that help us understand the changing metabolism of the planet such as work exploring waste, chemical exposure, water issues, energy, and multispecies ethnography.

This paper critically reframes the Barcelona Pavilion—not as a timeless exemplar of modernist purity, but as a socio-material ensemble sustained through hidden infrastructures and quotidian practices. By outing the basement—a vast underground service space introduced in the 1986 reconstruction—the study destabilizes the myth of the Pavilion’s metaphysical detachment from the ordinary and the social. It meticulously documents how this subterranean realm, housing everything from cleaning machinery, broken travertine slabs, faded curtains, to the staff’s lunch and the pavilion’s cat, orchestrates the upper-floor’s illusion of pristine timelessness.

The analysis introduces the concept of “Mies-knowing societies”—communities of visitors, scholars, and custodians engaged in the performance of recognizing and reinforcing the Pavilion’s mythic simplicity, thus actively partaking in its reproduction. Jaque’s intervention, Phantom. Mies as Rendered Society (2012–2013), temporarily relocated basement artifacts into the public realm, making visible the Pavilion's underlying labor and material contingencies. This staged revelation unsettles the hierarchical order of perception that sustains architectural monuments, revealing how the appearance of architectural autonomy is socially constructed and actively maintained.

Ultimately, the paper argues that the Pavilion’s enduring authority depends on concealing its mundane entanglements. By exposing these, Jaque not only reconfigures our understanding of architectural heritage but also introduces a method to rethink modern architecture as an ongoing, socially distributed process rather than a static icon of aesthetic transcendence.

The introduction of this book rethinks the dynamics of technoscientific globalisation by shifting the lens to the Global South and to actors often relegated to the margins of science and technology. Building on ethnographic case studies from Africa, Asia, and Latin America, the book explores how populations, firms, and institutions participate in innovation, production, extraction, consumption, and revaluation of technologies. Rather than being passive recipients, Global South actors actively shape technological markets through practices of adaptation, inventive copying, informal labour, and alternative value-making strategies. The book argues that looking at technoscientific globalisation “from below” reveals both the deep asymmetries structuring the global order and the diverse capacities of non-hegemonic actors to generate original innovations, infrastructures, and imaginaries. By bringing to light neglected contributions and constraints, the chapters collectively unsettle dominant North-centric narratives of science, technology, and capitalism, and contribute to debates on globalisation, development, and Science and Technology Studies (STS).

This chapter examines how Indian pharmaceutical firms create value outside the intellectual property (IP)-driven model that dominates the Global North. Based on multi-sited fieldwork (2015–2023) across factories, offices, and distribution networks, it shows how companies rely on inventive copying, flexible manufacturing, and dense social networks to commercialise off-patent medicines. Rather than investing heavily in research and patent monopolies, Indian firms pursue incremental innovations—through dosage changes, packaging, or novel delivery systems—while adapting manufacturing standards and leveraging family, community, and professional ties to reach semi-regulated markets in the Global South. These strategies generate temporary and local monopolies, producing a form of pharmaceutical capitalism that contrasts with global rentier regimes yet plays a decisive role in access to affordable medicines. By highlighting these “ordinary” practices of value-making, the chapter contributes to rethinking technoscientific globalisation, underscoring how off-patent drugs and generic industries actively shape alternative, non-monopolistic forms of global capitalism.

Across eleven varied and lively chapters, Technoscientific Globalisation from Below provides fresh perspectives on how global asymmetries in wealth and resources stimulate technological innovation across the Global South. Readers with an interest in STS, globalisation and development studies will be inspired by these essays that demonstrate how the imaginative reappropriation of technologies to suit local conditions is challenging the assumed hegemony of big tech.

The 2011 meltdown at Fukushima, triggered by an earthquake and tsunami, was the worst nuclear power plant disaster in Japan’s history, bringing back painful memories of trauma associated with the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. While the aftermaths of Fukushima remain contentious, Japanese political elites have promoted a politics of recovery rather than a discourse of nuclear victimhood. This approach, which pushes aside competing visions of recovery, has come to emphasize assurances of minimal radiation-related dangers, repatriation of former evacuees to Fukushima, continued pursuit of nuclear power, and promotion of a resilient mindset in the face of ongoing ecological challenges.

The scientific community (or the academic profession) is one of the key players in the global and local dynamics of R&D and affects enormously the performance of contemporary societies. Nevertheless, historical, and institutional conditions strongly affect the magnitude and form of scientific and technological production in the various scientific communities around the globe. During the 20th century, the scientific community has been described as Merton's CUDO, followed by Kuhn's notion of paradigm, and finally in terms of post-normal science debates, mode two, and triple helix. This paper compares two measurements (survey-2012, and survey 2022), describing the evolution of a set of characteristics, especially incentives and values, ​​​​in three scientific communities (astronomers, sociologists, and molecular biologists) as representative of three epistemic practices: exact sciences, natural sciences, and social sciences. After an introduction describing the context of knowl...

Os nomes que vocês, primatas sem jaula, dão às coisas afetam sua atitude em relação a elas para todo o sempre. (Herschberger 1970 [1948]) 1 Pois assim todas as coisas devem começar, com um ato de amor. (Marais 1980) 2 Como o amor, o poder e a ciência se entrelaçam nas construções da natureza no final do século XX?¹ O que pode contar como natureza para os povos do final da era industrial? Que formas o amor à natureza assume em contextos históricos específicos? Para quem e a que custo? Em que lugares específicos, a partir de quais histórias sociais e intelectuais, e com que ferramentas a natureza é construída como um objeto de desejo erótico e intelectual? Como as terríveis marcas de gênero e raça capacitam e restringem o amor e o conhecimento em tradições culturais específicas, incluindo as ciências naturais modernas? Quem pode contestar o que será o corpo da natureza? Essas questões guiam minha história das ciências modernas e das culturas populares que emergem dos relatos sobre os corpos e as vidas de macacos e símios 3 . Os temas de raça, sexualidade, gênero, nação, família e classe foram inscritos no corpo da natureza nas ciências da vida ocidentais desde o século XVIII 4 . Na esteira da descolonização pós-Segunda Guerra Mundial, dos movimentos feministas e antirracistas locais e globais, das ameaças nucleares e ambientais e da ampla consciência da fragilidade das teias da vida na Terra, a natureza continua sendo um mito e uma realidade crucialmente importantes e profundamente contestados 5 . Como os fios materiais e simbólicos se entrelaçam no tecido da natureza do final do século XX para os povos industrializados? 6 Macacos e símios têm uma relação privilegiada com a natureza e a cultura para os povos ocidentais: os símios ocupam as zonas de fronteira entre esses potentes polos míticos 7 . Nas zonas de fronteira, o amor e o conhecimento são ricamente ambíguos e produtivos de significados nos quais muitas pessoas têm interesse 8 . O tráfico comercial e científico de

We analyze the ways in which different researchers and health professionals in Argentina (physicians, biochemists, epidemiologists) develop their arguments against mass vaccination against COVID-19. In particular, we explore how these positions are related to the mobilization of scientific knowledgeor arguments compatible with scientific reasoning-and to issues related to other interests (professional, political, economic, among others). Our aim is to advance the understanding of a potentially contradictory position: that of researchers and health professionals who hold positions that contradict some of the principles that hegemonically articulate the professional field.

We understand subordinate integration, in the scientific field, as a type of complex social relationship between researchers and/or research groups located in contexts of different relative development and degrees of freedom, where epistemic, institutional, resource availability, issues related to geopolitical asymmetries, modes of knowledge production and use, technological changes and the morphologies of different fields of knowledge intervene. It is therefore to be expected that this relationship will change as these dimensions evolve over time.
In what follows, I will first present a brief analysis of the interpretation of the concept of subordinate integration in relation to the notions of centres and peripheries, since these are closely related concepts, briefly reviewing the genesis of the concept and its consequences for thinking about the issue from a Latin American perspective. Then, in the following section, I will examine the different possible uses of the concept in the study of scientific dynamics and its analytical consequences for the observation of the international division of scientific work, as well as for the political dimensions of science and technology. Finally, I will analyze its effect on the effective use (both in the social and productive sense) of locally produced scientific knowledge.

Through the prism of robophilosophy, a relatively new field of robotics is considered – social robotics, which marks the transition from robots designed to perform dull, dirty, dangerous (3D) tasks to socially qualified robots; from tools to social partners. The ambiguous role of robot anthropomorphization is demonstrated: the facilitation of building social contacts between humans and social robots, and the risk of becoming accustomed to ethically irresponsible and unencumbered relationships. We reveal that the blurring of ontological, epistemological, and moral boundaries between humans and the objects they create, which is characteristic of social robotics, makes people think about the moral, legal, political, and civil status of robots (and other non-humans), and also actualizes on new grounds the age-old philosophical questions about the essence of human persons, their place in the world, and their humaneness./ Аннотация. Через призму роботофилософии рассматривается относительно новое направление робототехники-социальная робототехника, знаменующая переход от роботов, предназначенных для выполнения задач, обозначаемых как 3D-dull, dirty, dangerous (скучная, грязная и опасная работа), к социально квалифицированным роботам; от инструментов к социальным партнерам. Демонстрируется неоднозначная роль антропоморфизации роботов: облегчение выстраивания социальных контактов между людьми и социальными роботами и риск приучения к этически безответственным, необременительным отношениям. Показано, что характерное для социальной робототехники размытие онтологических, эпистемологических и моральных границ между людьми и созданными ими объектами заставляет задуматься о моральном, правовом, политическом, гражданском статусе роботов (и иных нелюдей), а также актуализирует на новых основаниях извечные философские вопросы о сущности человека, его месте в мире и его человечности.

Scholarship flourishes in inclusive environments where open deliberations and generative feedback expand both individual and collective thinking. Many researchers, however, have limited access to such settings, and most conventional academic conferences fall short of promises to provide them. We have written this Field Report to share our methods for cultivating a vibrant intellectual community within the Science and Technology Studies Food and Agriculture Network (STSFAN). This is paired with insights from 21 network members on aspects that have allowed STSFAN to thrive, even amid a global pandemic. Our hope is that these insights will encourage others to cultivate their own intellectual communities, where they too can receive the support they need to deepen their scholarship and strengthen their intellectual relationships.

B rowse through your local bookstore, or glance at a nearby movie marquee. Skim the pages of your nightly newspaper or the listings in your television guide. American culture's current focus poses a surprise. The popular eye is centered on a topic more taboo than the steamiest sexual encounter, more solemn than the deepest economic depression, and more universal than the common cold. The current decade reveals a remarkable upsurge in our collective attention toward death. Indeed in the 1990s, Americans have become nearly obsessed with a world that lurks beyond life as we know it. One need not look farto substantiate death's newfound popularity. Ghost, a silver screen tale of love beyond the grave, ranked as the third highest grossing movie of 1990, the top rented video of 1991, and the tenth best selling video of 1993. During the 1990s, other titles, too, transported our attentions to the great beyond: A

Recent editorials in Science, Technology & Human Values have invited us to expand alternative ways of doing Science and Technology Studies (STS) that respond to the here-and-now of planetary life. This paper relays these calls for these catastrophic times by considering the manner in which philosopher of science Isabelle Stengers has approached this problem. Proffering an extended reading of the mutations of Stengers's thought in the last decade, it argues that one of the lessons of her work is to connect the planetary catastrophe to the devastation of our knowledge-practices and the depletion of our imaginations, and to give to the catastrophe that marks the present the power to transform our ways of thinking in common. Resisting the mobilizations engendered by the question "what is to be done?", Stengers wagers on the generative capacities of interstitial practices to regenerate forms of collective intelligence, forms capable of protecting knowing and thinking practices from capture and experimentally reactivating the imagination even amid catastrophe. In so doing, the paper proffers a mode of imagining critical STS as an accomplice to collective experiments everywhere elaborating capacities to learn,

The global community remains significantly off track in achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), prompting calls for not only stronger political commitments but also more effective and credible expert guidance. This paper contributes to this discourse by examining a critical form of global environmental expertise: the conduct of global environmental assessments. Such expertise has become a foundational component of the institutional architecture underpinning global sustainability governance. Focusing on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), one of the most prominent and widely recognized international expert bodies, this study examines the challenges that researchers face when synthesizing research findings and making them policyrelevant within the IPCC's assessment work. The empirical material consists of an interview study (N = 18) conducted with experts involved in the IPCC, from its first assessment (1990) to the most recent one (2023). The data were analyzed thematically using NVivo. The analysis reveals four key internal challenges that the IPCC must address to enhance its advisory capacity: epistemic hierarchies, leadership and management dynamics, the complexities of formulating recommendations, and inequities in recognition and reward systems. By identifying and analyzing these challenges, the paper contributes to ongoing discussions about the IPCC's future development and offers broader insights into the evolving role of scientific expertise in global environmental governance.

This class begins with the argument that what is called the Fourth Industrial Revolution requires that we study issues of technology, ecology, and financialization together. Often explained as the innovation-driven convergence of the corporeal and the digital, the Fourth Industrial Revolution as an intellectual framework is yet to be analyzed from a critical and holistic perspective. By foregrounding the intellectual underpinnings of this framework, the class seeks to tease out the relationship between recent developments in tech innovation, environmentalism, and governance and forms of economic enclosures, extraction, and rent-seeking. Part 1 of the class outlines intellectual undercurrents starting in Cold War Silicon Valley that have spread to the “Global South” in search of innovation and investment opportunities. Part 2 highlights the invisible infrastructures, resources, labor, and waste that power the Fourth Industrial Revolution while externalities are pushed off onto vulnerable populations elsewhere. Part 3 synthesizes the first 2 to theorizes new enclosures and forms of extraction afforded by these emerging frameworks and infrastructures. Due to a lack of time, the class does not cover medical issues in depth but if this is something that interests you, come talk to me and I can help you find readings and work the topic into your coursework.

In Rearticulating the Social, Andrés Jaque, principal of the Office for Political Innovation (OFFPOLINN), in dialogue with Nikolaus Hirsch, reconceptualizes architecture as a dynamic, relational practice embedded within contemporary social, ecological, and political networks. Challenging the conventional view of architecture as a static, object-oriented discipline, Jaque frames it as a process of “re-articulation,” wherein the architect negotiates and reconfigures heterogeneous entities, forces, and relations. This approach repositions the architect from solitary author to facilitator of collective agency, foregrounding inclusivity, adaptability, and responsiveness as core ethical and methodological imperatives. By emphasizing architecture’s capacity to enact social transformation, foster alternative modes of coexistence, and engage pressing global challenges, the interview advances theoretical debates in architectural discourse, critical spatial practices, and the politics of design. It situates architecture as an active participant in shaping social realities, extending the boundaries of the discipline toward relational, post-disciplinary, and socially engaged frameworks.

This essay interrogates the architectural and urban dimensions of Silvio Berlusconi's political strategy, proposing the concept of "transmedia urbanism" to describe a mode of spatial and media integration that reconfigures urban life through targeted differentiation. Focusing on the development of Milano 2, a residential complex conceived in 1968, the paper examines how Berlusconi's media empire utilized architecture as a tool for political influence, embedding media consumption into the fabric of daily life. By analyzing the interplay between architecture, media, and politics, the study reveals how Berlusconi's approach to urbanism sought to create a cohesive social order through the strategic distribution of media content and spatial organization. This work contributes to architectural theory by expanding the understanding of architecture's role in mediating political power and social relations, offering a critical perspective on the intersections of media, space, and governance.

Sino-British Higher Education (HE) partnership creates a "joint" venture university. This article proposes Third Culture Universities (TCUs), drawing on Bruno Latour"s "cosmopolitical networks" and a postmodern lens we argue that these ventures reflect neither Chineseness nor Britishness. Alternatively, they shift transactional agendas from traditional paradigms to foster hybrid educational communities. Localised curricula, co-governance structures, and metacultural leadership strategies emerge that are unique in TCUs, featuring non-Western and non-Eastern ontologies. Consequently, actors renegotiate multicultural philosophies, translingual pedagogies, and institutionalised practices moment-by-moment. Therefore, we position TCUs as dynamic spaces where different paradigms are co-constructed through network reassembly. Localised human and nonhuman actors, therefore, reconfigure partnerships to suit their own interpretation of learning. In doing so, they reassemble networks to privilege their own economic pursuits and epistemic equity. By deconstructing cosmopolitical potentials and tensions, this article aims to move us towards understanding there is little "joint" about ventures not merely international, rather intercultural.

Sino-British Higher Education (HE) partnership creates a "joint" venture university. This article proposes Third Culture Universities (TCUs), drawing on Bruno Latour"s "cosmopolitical networks" and a postmodern lens we argue that these ventures reflect neither Chineseness nor Britishness. Alternatively, they shift transactional agendas from traditional paradigms to foster hybrid educational communities. Localised curricula, co-governance structures, and metacultural leadership strategies emerge that are unique in TCUs, featuring non-Western and non-Eastern ontologies. Consequently, actors renegotiate multicultural philosophies, translingual pedagogies, and institutionalised practices moment-by-moment. Therefore, we position TCUs as dynamic spaces where different paradigms are co-constructed through network reassembly. Localised human and nonhuman actors, therefore, reconfigure partnerships to suit their own interpretation of learning. In doing so, they reassemble networks to privilege their own economic pursuits and epistemic equity. By deconstructing cosmopolitical potentials and tensions, this article aims to move us towards understanding there is little "joint" about ventures not merely international, rather intercultural.

This is the corrected post-print VOR, due to a journal side corrupted-text error in the online first version. It will shortly be updated by the journal on their server.

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have become pivotal in modern warfare, offering unprecedented capabilities in surveillance, intelligence gathering, and precision strikes. Initially deployed for reconnaissance, UAVs have evolved into powerful tools for conducting airstrikes with minimal human involvement, enhancing the operational efficiency of military forces. However, the growing reliance on UAVs in military operations has sparked ethical debates. The use of drones for targeted killings, especially in regions with civilian populations, often leads to unintended casualties, raising serious concerns about the adherence to international humanitarian laws. The lack of accountability and transparency in drone strikes, particularly when conducted by foreign powers, complicates the ethical implications of their use. Additionally, concerns regarding privacy violations and the erosion of national sovereignty in drone strikes have  fueled public debate about the legitimacy of UAVs in warfare.

In this chapter we consider in particular the historical contingency objection, which states that the centrality of work is associated with a social arrangement that is based on a set of values that arose at a particular time and whose time is now gone; the ethnocentric objection, which states that it is a mistake to project our concern for work into cultures in which other values have primacy; and the nominalist challenge, which refers to the great variability with which human societies have depicted different kinds of activities, to deny that there is a homogeneous notion of work that would be valid across times and across cultures. We respond to these objections by considering a wealth of anthropological and historical evidence. By centrality of work is meant here simply, following Wallman, that work impacts significantly on the identity and social standing of individuals, and that it is a major axis in the organization of society. On the basis of all the evidence considered, we show that work has been central in many human societies besides modern, industrial ones.

L’objectif de cet article est d’examiner deux enjeux du concept pragmatiste d’action. Le premier concerne les relations entre l'action, telle qu'elle est définie par Peirce et Dewey, et la théorie pragmatiste de la connaissance, et le second la manière dont le pragmatisme permet de repenser la théorie morale.