Volume 2 – 2019

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EditorialS

A geopolitics of bad English
Leandro Rodriguez-Medina

About the cover images for Volumen 2
Luis Reyes-Galindo

The Editorial Team

Book Reviews

Two analyses of Richard Currier’s Unbound: how eight technologies made us human and brought our world to the brink
Monserrat Pérez-Castro and Robert Bates Graber

Literature Review

The “emperical turn” in the historiography of the Iberian and Atlantic science in the early modern world: from cosmography and navigation to ethnography, natural history, and medicine
Antonio Sánchez

Thematic cluster: Latin American replies to lin and law

Welcome to South-South dialogues: an introduction to a collaborative project between East Asian Science, Technology and Society, and Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society
Leandro Rodriguez-Medina

Where are STS outside Euroamerica? The postcoloniality for the anthropic dimension and the anthropologic scope
Antonio Arellano-Hernández and Laura Maria Morales-Navarro

Crises that mismatch canons in science: provincialization, transnationality, conviviality?
Hebe Vessuri

Discussing the symmetry principle: towards a realist dialogue inside global STS theory
Jorge Gibert Galassi

Thematic cluster: what is ‘(un)making’ STS ethnographies? – Part 2

Epistemic-corporeal workshops: putting strong reflexivity into practice
Marisa G. Ruiz-Trejo and Dau García-Duder

Corpo-real ethnographies: bodies, dissection planes, and cutting. Ethnography from the anatomy laboratory and the public morgues in Colombia
Julia Alejandra Morales-Fontanilla and Santiago Martínez-Medina

Of flesh and bone: emotional and affective ethnography of forensic anthropology practices amidst and armed conflict
María Fernanda Olarte-Sierra

Disentangling war and disease in post-conflict Colombia beyond technoscientific peacemaking
Lina Pinto García

Original articles

Maize and semiotic emergence in a contemporary Maya Tale: Tec Tun’s, U tsikbalo’ob XNuk Nal [Tales of Older Mother Corn]
Charles Maurice Pigott

Territorializing/decolonizing South American prehistory: Pedra Furada and the Cerutti Mastodon
David Turnbull

Scientific co-operation and centre-periphery relations: attitudes and interests of European and Latin American scientist
Adriana Feld and Pablo Kreimer

The scientists of the IVIC in the evolution of science and technology policy during the Chávez administration in Venezuela
Damny Laya and Hebe Vessuri

The ambivalent regulator: the construction of a regulatory style for genetically modified crops in Chile
Maite P. Salazar, Daniel Valenzuela, Manuel Tironi and Rodrigo A. Gutiérrez

South Atlantic universals: science, sovereignty and self-determination in the Falkland Islands (Malvinas)
James J. A. Blair

Socio-environmental conflicts as social cohesion thermometers: a case study
Carina Llosa

The regulatory system and subjectivity in a Nahuat community. An invisibilized community regulatory density
Eliel Francisco Sánchez-Acevedo and Ma. Eugenia Sánchez-Díaz de Rivera

Academic knowledge about indigenous peoples in the Americas: a comparative approach about the conditions of its international circulation
Claudia Salomon Tarquini

Worlding hydropower: river realities in the Chilean Patagonia
Maite Hernando-Arrese and Manuel Tironi

Thematic cluster: entangled sciences of gender, sexyality, race: latin american issues

Entangled sciences of gender, sexuality and race: Latin American issues
Sandra Harding, Tania Pérez-Bustos and Manuela Fernández-Pinto

Funding of basic science in Mexico: the role of gender and research experience on success
Luis Humberto Fabila-Castillo

Women in Latin American science: gender parity in the twenty-fist century and prospects for a post-war Colombia
Camilo López-Aguirre

Does energy poverty have a female face in Chile?
Catalina Amigo-Jorquera, María José Guerrero-González, Jorgelina Sannazzaro and Anahí Urquiza-Gómez

Doubly disadvantaged: on the recruitment of diverse subjects for clinical trials in Latin America
Manuela Fernández Pinto

Metics and the art of playing with contradictions
Julia Sushytska

Book Reviews

Studying surrogacy in Mexico between 2015 and 2017
Sandra P. González-Santos

Thematic cluster: frail modernities: Latin american infrastructures between repair and ruination

Frail modernities: Latin American infrastructures between repair and ruination
Raquel Velho and Sebastián Ureta

“¡Se Bota El Tanque!”: housing, infrastructure, and the sounds of water in the Havana´s domestic spaces
Vincent Andrisani

Everyday mundane repair: banknotes and the material entanglements of improvisation and innovation
Sarah Pink, Juan Francisco Salazar and Melisa Duque

Light is like water: flooding, blackouts, and the state in Barranquilla
Tatiana Acevedo-Guerrero

The intersections between infrastructures and expectations: repair and breakdown in Yachay, the city of knowledge in Ecuador
José David Gómez-Urrego

Railroad revolution: infrastructural decay and modernization in Argentina
Stephanie McCallum

Acknowledgements

Editorial Team – Reviewer Acknowledgements
Leandro Rodriguez-Medina