STS Across Borders: Recap and Next Steps

Session Submission Type: Special Event

Abstract

STS Across Borders has been designed to stimulate interaction across different regional and intellectual formations of STS, and generate infrastructures -- of collection, collaboration, circulation, and review -- that can enable and support those interactions. It has had many experimental dimensions -- in the way it draws STS researchers into collaborative, comparative work, in the way it is archiving and curating the history of the field, and in the way it asks exhibitors to characterize distinctive modes of STS while also drawing out diversity within any particular STS formation. We have also been experimenting with a new form of review -- that we’ve called an “elaborative review” -- that asks reviewers to suggest what could be added to or elaborated in a collection to better convey the history, context, and dynamics of the particular STS formation under consideration.

This session is intended as an open discussion space to reflect on what we have collectively learned from the STS Across Borders experiment at 4S Sydney and anticipate next steps.

Sub Unit

• Single Paper Submission

Session Organizer

• Aalok Khandekar, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad