Transnational and Transgenerational STS: Collaborations, Methods and Pedagogies

Abstract

This open panel extends from extensive dialogue about TRANSnational STS at the 2018 annual 4S conference in Sydney, which spawned an array of new collaborations and further conversation. The goal of the panel is to keep the dialogue going and open, taking transnational STS in new directions. Papers will explore structures and dynamics that work against pluralistic knowledge production. Papers will also examine educational programs and research projects designed to counter entrenched geographic, disciplinary and generational hierarchies. Inspired by critical university studies and radical education thinkers like Paulo Freire, Gregory Bateson, and Gayatri Spivak, we hope to help conceptualize and build “good relations” in STS, in keeping with the 2021 4S conference theme. Contributions may address, among others, the following questions:

-What pedagogical philosophies (explicitly or implicitly) orient differently situated STS programs, and to what effect?

-What tactics do STS programs use to stay tuned to both local and transnational contexts?

-What works against knowledge pluralism in STS? What kinds of educational, research and publishing infrastructure is needed to support knowledge pluralism in STS?

-How have STS programs and projects actively leveraged diverse intellectual genealogies? How have these programs and projects been proactively anti-imperial?

-How have differences in political contexts shaped STS programs and projects?

-What methods and infrastructures have supported transnational and transgenerational STS collaborations? How are transnational and transgenerational STS research projects administered and governed? How do they set collaborative agendas and what enables them to sustain over time?

-How can transnational STS contribute to STS pedagogy and education program building?

-How can transnational STS scaffold local initiatives to engage multiple publics, and decision-makers?

Chair

• Kim Fortun, University of California Irvine

Discussant

• Sharon Traweek, UCLA

Individual Presentations

• Concentricity and eccentricity: Academic trajectories of CTS networks in Chile and Argentina - Nicolás Sanhueza, Sociology Institute, Catholic University of Chile

• Publishing in STS: agendas, themes and practices among centers and peripheries. - Pablo Kreimer, CONICET; Noela Invernizzi, Universidade Federal do Parana; Leandro Rodriguez Medina, Universidad de las Americas Puebla; Amílcar Davyt, Universidad de la Republica

• stsing: Doing STS In, Through And Beyond The German Academic System - Stefan Laser, Siegen University; Paula Marie Helm, University of Tuebingen; Laura Kocksch, Ruhr University Bochum; Ingmar Lippert, IT University of Copenhagen; Julie Sascia Mewes, Ruhr-Universität Bochum; Estrid Sørensen, Ruhr University Bochum

• Telling stories about air pollution and citizen action in Kaohsiung city - Chia-Liang SHIH, National Chengchi University; CHIA-HSUAN HO, National Chengchi University; Tseng-Yung Kao, National Taiwan University

• On the Possibility of Philippine STS: Collaborating toward a Special Issue - Paul Michael Leonardo Atienza, Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Kathleen Gutierrez, University of California, Santa Cruz

Session Organizers

• Angela Okune, University of California - Irvine

• Duygu Kasdogan, İzmir Katip Çelebi University

• Isha Bhallamudi, University of California, Irvine

• Anna Ma, McGill University

• Kim Fortun, University of California Irvine