Volume 9 – 2026

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Editorial

Publishing in the open: an opening editorial for Volume 9
Vivette García-Deister

About the cover for volume 9
Valeria C. Otálora, Jaime E. Cuellar, and Óscar Moreno-Martínez

Politics of language: the point of view of the Revue d’anthropologie des connaissances
Dominique Vinck, Elise Demeulenaere, and Céline Granjou

Book Review

Friction as method: a Latin American reading of Digital Culture Shock
José A. Guridi

Cowards don’t make history. Participatory Action Research (PAR) does
Pedro Reynolds-Cuéllar

Ontology hides: epistemology, philosophy, and assemblages in a more-than-human world
Francisco Vergara-Silva, and Alfredo Saynes-Vásquez

Original Article

Constructing categories, shaping transitions: the institutionalization of bioinputs in Argentina
Andrés Oscar Pedro Mondaini

“The project doesn’t exist!”: an ecology of non-projects in coastal Peru
Chakad Ojani

Data-enabled co-production: a situated dynamic of AI research at a Mexican university center
Gabriela Elisa Sued, and Eduardo Robles-Belmont

What “counts” as reliable data? Nahua science and the tlapohualiztli (reading) of earth and sky
Kelly S. McDonough

STS needs deeper frames of participation: historicizing public dialogues with technoscience from Latin America
Julian Goñi

Review Article

The “Havana Syndrome”: atmospheres of anxiety and neurological states
Denielle Elliott, and Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier

Speaking for nature? Irreduction and demo-genesis in Bruno Latour
João Vasco Coelho

Thematic Cluster: Negotiating and Objectifying Scientific Knowledge to Establish Standards and Measures in Latin America

Making data, making objectivity: infrastructures and statistical knowledge in post-revolutionary Mexico (1921–1933)
Ana Medeles

Standardizing underreporting: scale-making in Brazil’s syphilis epidemic
Eduardo Zanella

“Tero science”: producing evidence in the south for developing regulations in the north
Ezequiel Sosiuk

Decoding community participation: standardization and control in a Mexico’s cold war-era development program
Joel Vargas Domínguez

Between knowledge and politics. Negotiating and objectifying standards and measures in Latin America
Pablo Kreimer

“Commissioned science” as a key element of executive and judicial resolutions in a sociotechnical controversy around mining “impacts”
Juan Layna

Epistemic jurisdictions and standardized objectivity: observing regulatory science in nanotechnology in Argentina and Brazil
Mauricio Berger

Thematic Cluster: Tracing the Past, Mapping the Present: Digital Methods in Latin American Cultures

Web platforms as repositories of audiovisual memory: the opportunities and pitfalls for accessing televisual heritage in Colombia
Enrique Uribe-Jongbloed, and Carlos Gutiérrez-González

Datafication infrastructures. Reference approaches and methodological discussions for studying digital records of serious human rights violations
Víctor Hugo Ábrego

Artificial intelligence, judicial archives, and transitional justice: analysis of the Quiñones Case in Chile
Hugo Rojas Corral, Antonia Fonck, Darwin Sanhueza, Domingo Mery, and Jocelyn Dunstan

Problems of code: ethnographic encounters with the Amazon Forest as a computational model
Felipe Mammoli, and Marko Monteiro

Decolonizing LLMs for Indigenous languages: a functional or critical interculturality perspective?
José Leonel Vargas Hernández, and Ana Valdivia

Thematic Cluster: African-Latin American Social Studies of the Production of Knowledge

Metal in the dust: a mining air pollution controversy in Chile
Claudio Broitman