Volume 7 – 2024

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Editorials

On conversation
Vivette García-Deister

About the cover for volume 7
Leonardo Aranda

Milei charges against Argentine science
Hebe Vessuri

How to defend science in Argentina and beyond: a view from Chile
Jorge Gibert Galassi

RUTA: a new kind of compass rose
Julia Sushytska

The Editorial Team

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

Extractivism and the ecology of research infrastructure: digitizing precarious materialities in Iquitos, Peru
Amanda M. Smith

Energy sovereignty storytelling: Art practices, community-led transitions, and territorial futures in Latin America
Azucena Castro, Alejandro Ponce de León, Ana Laura Cantera, Veronica Olofsson and Juan David Reina-Rozo

A “war on science?” Far-right movements and the disputes over epistemic authority in Brazil
Daniel Edler Duarte, Pedro Benetti and Marcos César Alvarez

Merchandising doubt in the periphery: some lessons from the glyphosate debate in Colombia
Jorge M. Escobar Ortiz, Victoria Estrada-Orrego and Javier Guerrero-C

A body, a collective mass, a clothesline. A textile analysis of a collage to understand the Estallido social in Colombia
Tania Pérez-Bustos , Isabel González-Arango and Sylvia Gómez-Gómez

A brief mapping of identity politics: the anti-racist feminist and Afro-descendant women’s movement in Ladino Amefrica
Yuderkys Espinosa Miñoso and Ochy Curiel Pichardo

Technopolitics of fear: managing emotions about infrastructural collapse at a mining business conference
Joaquín Contreras and Sebastián Ureta

Science, technology, and strategic calculation: the contributions of Carlos Matus to Latin American STS
Celeste Viedma

Infrastructuring platform delivery work: exclusions, coercions and resistance in delivery platforms’ migrant work in Bogotá, Colombia
Derly Yohanna Sánchez, Oscar Javier Maldonado, Sandra Agudelo-Londoño, Mabel Hernández, Luis Jorge Hernández, Zuly Bibiana Suávez, Laura Mantilla and PLADDS team

Lélia Gonzalez: an Amefrican perspective to reorient the canon
Stefan Klein and Mariana Toledo Ferreira

Sweet dreams? Testing prognostics and reinterpreting sugarcane ethanol biofuel in Brazil
André Sica de Campos, David Tyfield, Leonardo Freire de Mello and Brian Garvey

BOOK REVIEWS

Routledge handbook of the digital environmental humanities
Alejandro Ponce de León – Calero

Green Revolution (not) for all: wheat and irrigation for the history of technology
Felipe Trujillo Bilbao

What expertise, for what, and whose democratic politics?
María Fernanda Díaz and Julian “Iñaki” Goñi

Spectacular generic. Pharmaceuticals and the simipolitical in Mexico
Sandra P. González-Santos

Electrifying Mexico: Technology and the Transformation of a Modern City
Adolfo Mejía-Montero

Different engines, creative technologies: Latin America and media technology history
Marina Fontolan

Traces and narratives in controversy: the human occupation of the Americas and the politics of science
Marcos Castro Carvalho

What makes Latin American STS? A speculative reading of a compilation book by young STS researchers
Vitor Chiodi

Science and democracy without emancipation?
Julian “Iñaki” Goñi

Epistemología de mierda
Alexis Bedolla Velázquez

Nadando contra las corrientes: Lilian Harrison y los cruces a nado en la década de 1920
Suzanne Rubinstein

Disrupting the Patrón: Indigenous land rights and the fight for environmental justice in Paraguay’s Chaco
Eduardo Romero Dianderas

Leopold’s land
Luis Zambrano

THEMATIC CLUSTER: The FUTURE OF FACTS IN LATIN AMERICA

Los hechos nunca andan solos: The future of facts in Latin America
Andrea Ballestero, Kregg Hetherington, Eden Medina

Algorithms as facts and fabrications: ethnographic stories of factishes from the Costa Rican Caribbean
Ignacio Siles, Edgar Gómez-Cruz and Rodrigo Muñoz-González

Disposability, social security, and the facts of work in Nicaragua’s sugarcane zone
Alex M. Nading

Traceable futures: the political temporality of forest facts in Peru’s tropical logging governance
Eduardo Romero Dianderas

Knowledge and ignorance in forensic identification: the origins of a contested human rights fact
Eden Medina

Hechos y Tachas: value, facts, and bodies in the early modern Caribbean
Pablo F. Gómez

Pliable facts and rigorous fictions: the cognitive persuasions of contemporary Latin American science fiction
Emily A. Maguire

Facts from a redemptive future: denial and future anterior politics during the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil
Rosana Castro

Commoning practices: the political significance of facts
Diana Bocarejo

The persistence of long facts: truth and consequence in Costa Rica’s aquifers
Andrea Ballestero

The patent and the freezer: putting agrarian facts in their place
Kregg Hetherington

Reshaping the field: technocratic facts, high wheat yields, and the making of an ecological disaster
Gabriela Soto Laveaga

After the fact. An afterword
Vivette García-Deister

Fact-making in Latin America: reviewing three ethnographies of truth, doubt, and expertise
Javiera Araya-Moreno, Melanie Ford & Katie Ulrich

Thematic Cluster: Leaking Various Menstruations: Menstrual Blood and Contemporary Agencies

Leaking various menstruations: menstrual blood and contemporary agencies
Clarissa Reche Nunes da Costa and Daniela Tonelli Manica

Period poverty behind the numbers: gender, race, and class in the menstrual experiences of girls from an urban periphery in Brazil
Januária Monteiro Menegotto and Fernanda Bittencourt Ribeiro

(Re)making menstrual hygiene discourses in India
Amisha K. Gopee

Menstruation as a research topic in the humanities in Brazil: a state of the art
Clarissa Reche Nunes da Costa, Naedja Cristiane Vieira Costa and Daniela Tonelli Manica

Acknowledgements
Vivette García Deister