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Welcome to Tapuya!📖
This is a peer-reviewed, #OpenAccess journal, published by Taylor&Francis, and affiliated to ESOCITE and 4S. By publishing STS research about and from LatAm & other peripheral regions, Tapuya challenges and expands current scholarship.
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📢Exciting News!
Tapuya is now on Bluesky! Find us at @tapuya.org and explore our Starter Pack designed to kick off a thriving Latin American STS community.📦

Join the conversation, connect with us, and let’s build this space together! go.bsky.app/JxBWBbS

🚀 #Bluesky #LatinAmericanSTS
🟡Just Out!

New article “Reborn motherhood in Latin America: race, care and neoliberal subjectivities”👩🏿🍼

By Daniela Ravelli Cabrini, Ana Paula Visintini & Abril Saldaña-Tejeda

🤰🏽At doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2025.2577517
#RebornMothers #DigitalEthnography #ConsumptionMotherhood #OpenAccess #Tapuya8
December 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM
🟨Just out!

New Book Review ”Unpacking the maraña: leishmaniasis as human and more-than-human violence in Colombia's armed conflict and global health discourse”.🪢

By Isabella Jaimes Rodríguez

🖇Open Access doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2025.2569154
#BookReview #Maraña #LinaPinto #Tapuya8 #OpenAccess
December 24, 2025 at 4:01 PM
🍇[NEWS]

Wishing our entire community of readers, writers, and scholars a joyful and restful holiday season. Thank you for your vibrant contributions. We look forward to engaging with you in the new year. Warmest wishes for a peaceful break and a wonderful 2026.✨

🪅https://tapuya.org/news/
December 22, 2025 at 5:03 PM
💡[Calls & Applications]

The 53rd ICOHTEC Annual Meeting –to be celebrated at the Democritus University of Thrace in Greece from 8–11 October 2026– is accepting proposals!

✍Find out more information at /tapuya.org/category/calls-applications/
@icohtec2026.bsky.social @recslac.bsky.social
December 19, 2025 at 4:02 PM
🟡Just Out!

New article “Regional integration as a remedy against technological dependency? The contradictions in the calls for regional integration in Latin American AI strategies” ֎

By Guilherme Cavalcante Silva

🤖Free read at doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2025.2545040
#OpenAccess #Tapuya8
December 17, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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December 16, 2025 at 4:31 PM
🏆[NEWS]

Donna Haraway has been awarded the 2025 Erasmus Prize, and she calls us to “relearn how to think with each other.” 🗫

🌎Read her acceptance speech here tapuya.org/news/
#ErasmusPrize2025 #DonnaHaraway #TapuyaLASTS
December 15, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Reposted by Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society
🎉 Our thematic cluster for @tapuya.org is now complete😍 with this editorial: Botero, A., & Pérez-Bustos, T. (2025). The making of methodologies/methodologies of making. When precarity matters. Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society. doi.org/10.1080/2572...
November 23, 2025 at 9:37 PM
📓[Calls & Applications]

Three doctoral positions open at the IMPRS “Knowledge and Its Resources” in Berlin. Research the history/philosophy of science, tech & medicine. Global perspectives welcome. Apply by Jan 15, 2026. ✍🏻💡

⚙️More info at tapuya.org/category/calls-applications/
@mpiwg.bsky.social
December 12, 2025 at 5:31 PM
🟡Just Out

New Original Article “Is glacier science undone, or just enough for a just transition? Reflections from Andean Mines”🏔️🇨🇱

By Javiera Barandiarán, Paola Araya, Cristián Simonetti & José Ragas

❄Free doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2025.2574128
#Glaciers #UndoneScience #Chile #Tapuya8 #OpenAccess
December 10, 2025 at 5:31 PM
🟨Just out!

New Book Review of “State infrastructures, territories for modernization”.🚧

By Magdalena Gil

🏗️Open Access doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2025.2582946
#BookReview #Infraestructura #Estado #DhanZunino #MelinaPiglia #ValeriaGruschetsky #Tapuya8 #OpenAccess
December 8, 2025 at 7:30 PM
🟡Just Out!

New article “Collaborative science and knowledge co-production in struggles for territory and life: insights from Mexico” 🇲🇽🦉

By Josué Federico Pérez Domínguez & Jaime Paneque-Gálvez

📍Free read at doi.org/10.1080/2572...
#DecolonialityOfKnowledge #EngagedScholarship #OpenAccess #Tapuya8
Collaborative science and knowledge co-production in struggles for territory and life: insights from Mexico
The Mintsïta Gardens Ecological Community (MGEC) in Morelia, Mexico, has strengthened its community and sustainable living project by incorporating and mobilizing concepts, data, and analyses from ...
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December 3, 2025 at 7:13 PM
🟡Just Out!

New article “Better smelling through chemistry: the study of tropical fruit aromas and olfactory training across fields”🍍

By Ana María Ulloa-Garzón

👃Free read at doi.org/10.1080/2572...
#ScienceIndustryRellations #Aroma #Flavor #OlfactoryTraining #EmbodiedKnowledge #OpenAccess #Tapuya8
December 1, 2025 at 7:04 PM
🎥[NEWS]

The 2025 International Conference on Philosophy of Computing was held at UNAM last October. Enrique Soto-Astorga offers a broad view about the range of topics covered: from theory to societal impact of computer machinery and new technologies. ⏻🏙️

ᯤ More at tapuya.org/news/
November 28, 2025 at 4:03 PM
🟡Just Out!

New Thematic Cluster Introduction “The making of methodologies/methodologies of making. When precarity matters” 💭𓁉

By Andrea Botero & Tania Pérez-Bustos

🏺Free read at www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
MethodologiesOfMaking #LatinAmericanStudies #OpenAccess #Tapuya8
November 26, 2025 at 4:03 PM
🟧New TC just out!

The essays in this editorial cluster, “rather than retrospective or revisionary tributes, are forward-looking texts that deploy Sandra Harding’s enduring intellectual legacy”, writes Vivette García-Deister. ⏳

⚜️Read "Honoring Sandra Harding" at www.tandfonline.com/action/showA...
November 24, 2025 at 4:01 PM
🌍 [Calls & Applications]

Fully-funded Marie Curie PhD grants at UOC Barcelona! Research care practices, urban ecology & multispecies architecture using ANT/ethnography.

Apply by Jan 31, 2026!

🔗 Info: /tapuya.org/category/calls-applications/
#PhD #Funding #STS
November 21, 2025 at 4:03 PM
🔸[Original Article] in Tapuya Vol. 8

Read “Geology after perforation: the reinvention of geothermal exploration in the Chilean Andes”⚡⛰️

By Martín Fonck

♨️Open Access: doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2025.2470568
#EnergyFutures #GeothermalEnergy #Geology #Anthropology #GeoPedagogies #Tapuya8 #OpenAccess
November 21, 2025 at 3:52 PM
🔍 [Editor’s Picks]

Our editors recommend the AI Dossier from @geict.bsky.social !
Explore critical, interdisciplinary perspectives on AI’s societal impacts from a leading STS research group.

🔗 More picks at tapuya.org/resources-2/...
#AI #STS #Sociotech
November 18, 2025 at 4:30 PM
🌍[NEWS]

Join JDS & UC Irvine’s EcoGovLab for an open seminar: "A Call for Multilingual Inclusiveness in Science & Disaster Research." Engage with authors & global discussants!

🗓️ Nov 19, 12 AM GMT
🔗 Info and registration link at tapuya.org/news/
#MultilingualScience #DisasterStudies
November 14, 2025 at 3:27 PM
🔸[Original Article] in Tapuya V8

Read “The politics of restless motion: water governance and state formation in Colombia’s upper Cauca basin, 1910–1940” 💧🌐

By Alejandro Ponce de León

doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2025.2513196

#Governance #Colombia #hydraulics #StateFormation #STS #Tapuya8 #OpenAccess
November 13, 2025 at 3:36 PM
⚜️[NEWS] A Tribute to Sandra Harding's Legacy in East Asian STS

Read the heartfelt tribute that Daiwie Fu writes: ”Reminiscences of Sandra Harding, Taiwan, and Me”

📜 Details at tapuya.org/news/
[Pictures taken from the Fu’s original text]
November 11, 2025 at 5:35 PM
2️⃣ [Volume 2]

This volume deepens our collective exploration of how science and technology are made, unmade, and remade from Latin America. Across its clusters, Volume 2 expands conversations between ethnography, postcolonial STS, feminist epistemologies, and the politics of knowledge.
November 7, 2025 at 5:14 PM
🔸[Cluster Article] in Tapuya Vol. 8

Read “Migrating with objects: material abandonment, continuity, and hope in the context of migratory precarity in Chile” 🧸🎴

By Caterine Galaz Valderrama & Blanca Callén Moreu
🟡Just Out

Migrant objects as companions: Chilean fieldwork reveals how obituaries for lost items, love letters to cherished ones, and handmade amulets redistribute agency in precarious border-crossing journeys 🧸🎴

🚌Free read at doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2025.2502726
@tapuya.org
November 6, 2025 at 5:24 PM
🎤[Editor’s Picks]

Esta semana nuestrxs editores recomiendan Mutante, podcast que no se conforma con respuestas simples. Una coproducción de Radio UAEM y UNAM Campus Morelos. Conduce Agustín Ávila-Casanueva. 🦠

📻Más información en tapuya.org/resources-2/editors-picks/
@elagusdekomodo.bsky.social
November 3, 2025 at 5:29 PM