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Latin American Entanglements of Gender, Sexuality, Race, Ethnicity, Coloniality - I

Wed, September 4, 1:00 to 2:30pm, Sheraton New Orleans Hotel, Floor: Eight, Armstrong Ballroom & Foyer

Abstract

Recently Latin American STS has developed an increasing presence both in Latin America and in international contexts. Central to its concerns have been the ways that genders, sexualities, races, ethnicities, and class are entangled with each other in Latin America, as elsewhere, and how the history and continuing assumptions of coloniality shape such entanglements. How are these projects shaping innovations, interruptions and regenerations of STS both in Latin America and through new Latin American presences around the globe?

Thus this panel welcomes proposals that focus on distinctively Latin American meanings and references of “science” and ”technology”, such as indigenous knowledge and popular everyday technologies and uses of them, as well as more familiar uses. How do such innovations, interruptions and regenerations appear in Latin American institutions and practices? It welcomes studies of science, technology and STS differences between Portuguese and Spanish parts of Latin America; between Central American, Caribbean, continental Latin America, and Latin American parts of North America; between different geographical and climatological situations; and between different national and sub-national cultures.

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