Volume 6 – 2023

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Critical contacts: making STS public amid Mexico’s forensic crisis
Vivette García Deister

On lowering guardrails
James Griesemer

About the covers for Volumes 5 & 6
Luis Reyes-Galindo

The Editorial Team

Translating translation
James Griesemer

Confronting silences
Robert A. Wilson

Original Articles

Towards a posthumanistic knowledge production. Multimedia artistic research during the rise of neoliberalism in Mexico
Alberto López Cuenca

Rethinking governance through Samarco’s dam collapse in Brazil: a critique from the STS
Luciana Landgraf Castelo Branco

Baroque tools for climate action. What do we learn from a catalogue of local technologies?
Tomas Ariztia, Aline Bravo and Ignacio Nuñez

Governance in socio-environmental research: an analysis of multi-stakeholder cooperation mechanisms in two research laboratories in Yucatan, Mexico
María Elena Giraldo and Eliana Arancibia Gutiérrez

A path of one’s own in the international scientific insertion: on the research trajectory of an Argentine neuroscience laboratory
Luana Ferroni

“Hecho en México”: a media analysis of the first MRT baby
Sandra P. González-Santos and Abril Saldaña-Tejeda

In favor of a dialogue between political science and Science Studies
Bruno Latour, translation by Luis Reyes-Galindo

Traditional knowledge policy co-production in Colombia and Ecuador
Martha Isabel Gómez Lee and André-Noël Roth Deubel

Towards pluriversal views of digital technologies: the experiences of community and indigenous radios in Chiapas, Mexico
Laura Elizabeth Manjarrez

Shaping scientific work in universities in Chile: exploring the role of research management instruments
David Marchant-Cavieres, Carla Fardella, Fernando A. Valenzuela, Juan Felipe Espinosa-Cristia, Paulina E. Varas and Claudio Broitman

Architecture as fluid technology. The housing blocks by Corporación de la Vivienda of Chile
Jorge E. Vergara-Vidal

Funding of research agendas about the global south in Latin America and the Caribbean: lexicometric and content analysis in Latin American scientific production
Thaiane Moreira de Oliveira and Marcus Vinicius de Jesus Bomfim

Scalar dissonances, knowledge-making, sense of urgency, and social narratives about the future. Contours of the climate change debate in Latin America
Teresa Guadalupe de León Escobedo

Book Reviews

Conocimientos, sociedades y tecnologías en América Latina: Viejos modelos y desencantos, nuevos horizontes y desafíos
Luciano Levin

Stevia: Conocimiento, propiedad intelectual y acumulación de capital
Cori Hayden

Knowers of the Unseen: disputes over sufi knowledge and practice
Bárbara Burton

Two analyses of Pratik Chakrabarti’s Inscriptions of nature: geology and the naturalization of antiquity
Maria Paz Almenara Unten and N. Bucky Stanton

Technology of the oppressed: inequity and the digital mundane in favelas of Brazil
Manuela Rocha and Joabi Santos

Thematic Cluster: Interaction Turns in Knowledge Production

Interaction turns in knowledge production: actors, problems and methodologies
María Goñi Mazzitellia, Camila Zeballosa and Mariela Bianco Bozzo

“Keep trying and you will keep finding”: social knowledge production regarding the use of medicinal plants in rural communities from Uruguay
Valentina Pereyra Ceretta and Juan Martin Dabezies

Imagining futures within the constraints of the present. The coproduction of anticipatory knowledge in an energy scenarios platform in Argentina
Matthieu Hubert

The spatial dimension in university-social environment interactions. A proposal for the Argentine case
Pablo Sánchez Macchioli, Mariana Eva Di Bello and Fernanda Andrea Soca

Knowing from conflict: interculturality as a space of interaction for the production of knowledges
Adela Parra-Romero

Interactive experiences in social science research in Mexico: networking and knowledge mobilization
Rosalba Casas

Enlarging the knowledge transfer realm through engagement with research stakeholders: a conversation attempt with action research
Joaquín M. Azagra-Caro and Alejandra Boni

One alternative health device! A methodological proposal to analyze research projects’ orientation towards national health problems
José Miguel Natera and Soledad Rojas-Rajs

Epistemic activism and the production of spatial knowledge in Argentina
Oscar Vallejos, Norma Levrand and Gabriel Matharan

Understanding mechanisms of knowledge co-production in peace research projects supported by international cooperation
Carlos Mauricio Nupia and and Laura Valencia Espinosa

Knowledge mobilization in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) researchers: an approach to the Mexican national health system
Juan Carlos García-Cruz and J. Alexandre Oliveira Vera-Cruz

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

Ancestral plantings. Knowledge in the AfroPacific
Catherine E. Walsh and Juan García Salazar

Entangled collectives: riverine people, landscapes, and emerged infrastructures on a climate change background
Aline Radaelli and Júlia Menin

Thematic Cluster: A New History of Sociology? Southern Perspectives

New classics for the new science – re-reading the basis of sociology in Ecuador until the 1950s
Philipp Altmann

Re-situating Weber-reception in the circulation of knowledge: analyzing the intermediation of Chinese sociologists with overseas trajectory
Po-Fang Tsai

Karl Marx in Brazil: the reading capital of Capital (1958–2014)
Lidiane Soares Rodrigues

A new history of sociology? Southern perspectives
Stephane Dufoix and Hon-Fai Chen

Seminal ideas for old and new problems in Latin America: José Medina Echavarría and his legacy
Laura Angélica Moya López

Thematic Cluster: Citizen Science (Part 2)

Pollution, obligation, and care: perspectives from artisanal and small-scale gold mining and farming in rural Colombia
Jessica Smith, Cecilia Schroeder, Kathleen Smits, Juan Lucena and Oscar Restrepo Baena

Critical mass: the creation of Pajarero*/Birder communities in Mexico for citizen science
L. Arturo Vallejo-Novoa

Citizen science “from the margins”: epistemologies of ignorance in the Movement of Women with Endometriosis in Mexico
Julieta Piña-Romero

Thematic Cluster: Tracing Out Scalable Landscapes: Interpretative Layers about the Plantation Designs

Tracing out scalable landscapes: interpretative layers overplantation designs
Ângela Camana and Vanessa P. Perin

Plantation designs in northern Mozambique: development, struggles and (re)compositions facing the ProSAVANA program
Vanessa Parreira Perin

Changes in the landscape, threats, and the struggle of the quilombola communities from Alto Trombetas for their territories
Julia Marques Dalla Costa, Vanessa Flores dos Santos, and Eleandra Raquel da Silva Koch

Acknowledgements

Acknowledgements
Vivette García Deister