Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society
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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.
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
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
🏗️Full BR and more at tapuya.org/resources-2/book-reviews/
#BookReview #Infraestructura #Estado #DhanZunino #MelinaPiglia #ValeriaGruschetsky #Tapuya8 #OpenAccess
#BookReview #Infraestructura #Estado #DhanZunino #MelinaPiglia #ValeriaGruschetsky #Tapuya8 #OpenAccess
Book Reviews
Magdalena Gil analyses Infraestructura y Estado, a book about how Argentina’s highways, metros, and dams are sites of political struggle: where twentieth-century engineers and state projects forged…
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February 9, 2026 at 7:05 PM
📖[Book Review] in Tapuya Vol. 8
Magdalena Gil analyses “Infraestructura y Estado”, a book about how Argentina’s highways, metros, and dams are sites of political struggle: where twentieth-century engineers and state projects forged and fractured national modernity and territorial power. 🚧
Magdalena Gil analyses “Infraestructura y Estado”, a book about how Argentina’s highways, metros, and dams are sites of political struggle: where twentieth-century engineers and state projects forged and fractured national modernity and territorial power. 🚧
February 9, 2026 at 7:05 PM
📖[Book Review] in Tapuya Vol. 8
Magdalena Gil analyses “Infraestructura y Estado”, a book about how Argentina’s highways, metros, and dams are sites of political struggle: where twentieth-century engineers and state projects forged and fractured national modernity and territorial power. 🚧
Magdalena Gil analyses “Infraestructura y Estado”, a book about how Argentina’s highways, metros, and dams are sites of political struggle: where twentieth-century engineers and state projects forged and fractured national modernity and territorial power. 🚧
Calls & Applications – Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society
Calls & Applications
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February 6, 2026 at 4:04 PM
🌱[Calls & Applications]
Applications are invited for the 19th Ischia Summer School on the History of the Life Sciences (Italy, June 28 – July 5, 2026). This week-long advanced training explores the theme 'Problems of Growth’ through lectures and seminars with leading faculty.
Applications are invited for the 19th Ischia Summer School on the History of the Life Sciences (Italy, June 28 – July 5, 2026). This week-long advanced training explores the theme 'Problems of Growth’ through lectures and seminars with leading faculty.
February 6, 2026 at 4:04 PM
🌱[Calls & Applications]
Applications are invited for the 19th Ischia Summer School on the History of the Life Sciences (Italy, June 28 – July 5, 2026). This week-long advanced training explores the theme 'Problems of Growth’ through lectures and seminars with leading faculty.
Applications are invited for the 19th Ischia Summer School on the History of the Life Sciences (Italy, June 28 – July 5, 2026). This week-long advanced training explores the theme 'Problems of Growth’ through lectures and seminars with leading faculty.
🟡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
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
February 5, 2026 at 6:58 PM
🟡Just Out
New Article “From the collaborative workshops to the experimental open laboratory. Methodological creativity in long-term research with waste pickers in Greater Buenos Aires”🚮
By Sebastián Carenzo
♻️ Read for free at doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2025.2539618
New Article “From the collaborative workshops to the experimental open laboratory. Methodological creativity in long-term research with waste pickers in Greater Buenos Aires”🚮
By Sebastián Carenzo
♻️ Read for free at doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2025.2539618
February 5, 2026 at 6:58 PM
🟡Just Out
New Article “Scores for feminist praxis: embodied study of knots and speculative genealogies” 🧶🧵
By Catalina Hernández-Cabal
𓍯 Open Access at doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2025.2497021
New Article “Scores for feminist praxis: embodied study of knots and speculative genealogies” 🧶🧵
By Catalina Hernández-Cabal
𓍯 Open Access at doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2025.2497021
February 5, 2026 at 6:58 PM
🟡Just Out
New Article “Latin-American cyborg methods: hacking digital methodologies in and for the scientific south” 🦾👾
By Henry Chavez, Agustín Mauro, Denis I. Chavez & Renato Ponciano
🧭Free at doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2025.2513198
New Article “Latin-American cyborg methods: hacking digital methodologies in and for the scientific south” 🦾👾
By Henry Chavez, Agustín Mauro, Denis I. Chavez & Renato Ponciano
🧭Free at doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2025.2513198
February 5, 2026 at 6:58 PM
🟡Just Out
New Article “Migrating with objects: material abandonment, continuity, and hope in the context of migratory precarity in Chile” 🧸🎴
By Caterine Galaz Valderrama & Blanca Callén Moreu
🚌Free read: doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2025.2502726
New Article “Migrating with objects: material abandonment, continuity, and hope in the context of migratory precarity in Chile” 🧸🎴
By Caterine Galaz Valderrama & Blanca Callén Moreu
🚌Free read: doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2025.2502726
February 5, 2026 at 6:58 PM
🟡Just Out
New Article “Growing data in the field: proposing speculative objects in storytelling interviews” 🤔📊
By Felipe Raglianti
🚸Open Access: doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2025.2488541
#SpeculativeResearch #DataHandling #MethodAssemblage #ChildrenStudies #Tapuya8 #OpenAccess
New Article “Growing data in the field: proposing speculative objects in storytelling interviews” 🤔📊
By Felipe Raglianti
🚸Open Access: doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2025.2488541
#SpeculativeResearch #DataHandling #MethodAssemblage #ChildrenStudies #Tapuya8 #OpenAccess
February 5, 2026 at 6:58 PM
🟡Just Out!
New Article “Lab in the slum. Reassembling methods, institutions, spaces, and identities in Rosario, Argentina” 🧪🏚️
By Gabriela Bortz
🔗Open Access: doi.org/10.1080/2572...
New Article “Lab in the slum. Reassembling methods, institutions, spaces, and identities in Rosario, Argentina” 🧪🏚️
By Gabriela Bortz
🔗Open Access: doi.org/10.1080/2572...
February 5, 2026 at 6:58 PM
🟡Just Out!
New Article “Positionality and intersectionality in environmental debates: duoethnography as a method to know (from) the margins”
By Jose A. Cañada & Joaquín Valdivielso
🆓doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2025.2484118
New Article “Positionality and intersectionality in environmental debates: duoethnography as a method to know (from) the margins”
By Jose A. Cañada & Joaquín Valdivielso
🆓doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2025.2484118
February 5, 2026 at 6:58 PM
📖[Book Review] in Tapuya Vol. 8
Catalina Cortés’ review of Trazas, oficios y territorios highlights how it weaves Indigenous crafts, microscopic biology, and cave paintings into a methodological tapestry—where research-creation becomes (1/2)
Catalina Cortés’ review of Trazas, oficios y territorios highlights how it weaves Indigenous crafts, microscopic biology, and cave paintings into a methodological tapestry—where research-creation becomes (1/2)
February 5, 2026 at 6:58 PM
🟡Just Out!
New Article “Crafting care: the case of the Kangaroo Mother Care Method”
By Juliana Gutiérrez Valderrama, Simone Fuica Prieto & Catalina Lince-Rivera🦘
🆓doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2025.2476839
New Article “Crafting care: the case of the Kangaroo Mother Care Method”
By Juliana Gutiérrez Valderrama, Simone Fuica Prieto & Catalina Lince-Rivera🦘
🆓doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2025.2476839
February 5, 2026 at 6:58 PM
📖[Book Review] in Tapuya Vol.8
According to @ionheras.bsky.social, “An Ethnographic Inventory” reframes fieldwork as creative prototyping—where anthropologists, artists, and designers craft ‘how-to’ devices from improvisation.⚙️
More at👉 tapuya.org/resources-2/book-reviews/
#OpenAccess #Tapuya8
According to @ionheras.bsky.social, “An Ethnographic Inventory” reframes fieldwork as creative prototyping—where anthropologists, artists, and designers craft ‘how-to’ devices from improvisation.⚙️
More at👉 tapuya.org/resources-2/book-reviews/
#OpenAccess #Tapuya8
February 5, 2026 at 6:58 PM
fuels creative making, from waste picker labs to speculative storytelling, reshaping both knowledge and the world.
🏺Read it now at tapuya.org/our-journal-...
#MakingOfMethodologies #MethodologiesOfMaking #LatinAmericanStudies #OpenAccess #Tapuya8
🏺Read it now at tapuya.org/our-journal-...
#MakingOfMethodologies #MethodologiesOfMaking #LatinAmericanStudies #OpenAccess #Tapuya8
Volume 8 – 2025
To freely access our content in PDF format, please select the corresponding title EDITORIALS In the service of hopeVivette García-Deister Dismantling science, dismantling human rights: President Do…
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February 5, 2026 at 6:58 PM
fuels creative making, from waste picker labs to speculative storytelling, reshaping both knowledge and the world.
🏺Read it now at tapuya.org/our-journal-...
#MakingOfMethodologies #MethodologiesOfMaking #LatinAmericanStudies #OpenAccess #Tapuya8
🏺Read it now at tapuya.org/our-journal-...
#MakingOfMethodologies #MethodologiesOfMaking #LatinAmericanStudies #OpenAccess #Tapuya8
🟡[Volume 8] Thematic Cluster!
“The Making of Methodologies/Methodologies of Making. When Precarity Matters” edited by Andrea Botero & Tania Pérez-Bustos is all up and ready to be read. 🖇
This cluster recasts research in Latin America as a craft of invention, where precarity
“The Making of Methodologies/Methodologies of Making. When Precarity Matters” edited by Andrea Botero & Tania Pérez-Bustos is all up and ready to be read. 🖇
This cluster recasts research in Latin America as a craft of invention, where precarity
February 5, 2026 at 6:58 PM
🟡[Volume 8] Thematic Cluster!
“The Making of Methodologies/Methodologies of Making. When Precarity Matters” edited by Andrea Botero & Tania Pérez-Bustos is all up and ready to be read. 🖇
This cluster recasts research in Latin America as a craft of invention, where precarity
“The Making of Methodologies/Methodologies of Making. When Precarity Matters” edited by Andrea Botero & Tania Pérez-Bustos is all up and ready to be read. 🖇
This cluster recasts research in Latin America as a craft of invention, where precarity
𖥂🎮 [Editor’s Picks]
This week our editors invite you to check out this review of “The Cybernetic Border,” written by Kalindi Vora, as it examines how the technoaesthetics of dissent disrupt carceral systems. A crucial read on technology, race, and resistance.
🔗tapuya.org/resources-2/editors-picks/
This week our editors invite you to check out this review of “The Cybernetic Border,” written by Kalindi Vora, as it examines how the technoaesthetics of dissent disrupt carceral systems. A crucial read on technology, race, and resistance.
🔗tapuya.org/resources-2/editors-picks/
February 2, 2026 at 4:03 PM
𖥂🎮 [Editor’s Picks]
This week our editors invite you to check out this review of “The Cybernetic Border,” written by Kalindi Vora, as it examines how the technoaesthetics of dissent disrupt carceral systems. A crucial read on technology, race, and resistance.
🔗tapuya.org/resources-2/editors-picks/
This week our editors invite you to check out this review of “The Cybernetic Border,” written by Kalindi Vora, as it examines how the technoaesthetics of dissent disrupt carceral systems. A crucial read on technology, race, and resistance.
🔗tapuya.org/resources-2/editors-picks/
🎯[Calls & Applications]
Pitch to ContraSTS Magazine ( @contrastsmag.bsky.social ) on the theme "Fortunes"! How do science & tech shape our future? Submit your creative take by Feb 23, 2026. All backgrounds welcome!
🔗Details at tapuya.org/category/calls-applications/
#CFP #STS #Writing
Pitch to ContraSTS Magazine ( @contrastsmag.bsky.social ) on the theme "Fortunes"! How do science & tech shape our future? Submit your creative take by Feb 23, 2026. All backgrounds welcome!
🔗Details at tapuya.org/category/calls-applications/
#CFP #STS #Writing
January 30, 2026 at 4:02 PM
🎯[Calls & Applications]
Pitch to ContraSTS Magazine ( @contrastsmag.bsky.social ) on the theme "Fortunes"! How do science & tech shape our future? Submit your creative take by Feb 23, 2026. All backgrounds welcome!
🔗Details at tapuya.org/category/calls-applications/
#CFP #STS #Writing
Pitch to ContraSTS Magazine ( @contrastsmag.bsky.social ) on the theme "Fortunes"! How do science & tech shape our future? Submit your creative take by Feb 23, 2026. All backgrounds welcome!
🔗Details at tapuya.org/category/calls-applications/
#CFP #STS #Writing
🔨Part of “The Making of Methodologies/Methodologies of Making. When Precarity Matters” Cluster"
#Methods #Collaborative #Experimental #WastePickers #Materiality #Tapuya8 #OpenAccess
#Methods #Collaborative #Experimental #WastePickers #Materiality #Tapuya8 #OpenAccess
From the collaborative workshops to the experimental open laboratory. Methodological creativity in long-term research with waste pickers in Greater Buenos Aires
Since 2004, we have been implementing collaborative research workshops to analyze the organization of a waste picker´s cooperative and its working process. Accompanying their techno-productive traj...
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January 28, 2026 at 4:02 PM
🔨Part of “The Making of Methodologies/Methodologies of Making. When Precarity Matters” Cluster"
#Methods #Collaborative #Experimental #WastePickers #Materiality #Tapuya8 #OpenAccess
#Methods #Collaborative #Experimental #WastePickers #Materiality #Tapuya8 #OpenAccess
🔸[Cluster Article] in Tapuya Vol. 8
Read “From the collaborative workshops to the experimental open laboratory. Methodological creativity in long-term research with waste pickers in Greater Buenos Aires”🚮
By Sebastián Carenzo
♻️ at doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2025.2539618
Read “From the collaborative workshops to the experimental open laboratory. Methodological creativity in long-term research with waste pickers in Greater Buenos Aires”🚮
By Sebastián Carenzo
♻️ at doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2025.2539618
Vivette García Deister (@vivavivette.bsky.social)
An open laboratory in Buenos Aires sheds reclaims waste pickers' embodied expertise, turning precarious material experiments into a pop-up infrastructure for legitimizing grassroots techno-political…
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January 28, 2026 at 4:01 PM
🔸[Cluster Article] in Tapuya Vol. 8
Read “From the collaborative workshops to the experimental open laboratory. Methodological creativity in long-term research with waste pickers in Greater Buenos Aires”🚮
By Sebastián Carenzo
♻️ at doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2025.2539618
Read “From the collaborative workshops to the experimental open laboratory. Methodological creativity in long-term research with waste pickers in Greater Buenos Aires”🚮
By Sebastián Carenzo
♻️ at doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2025.2539618
🐎¡Nueva entrada en [LAT-STS Library]!
"Repartir el agua de la Revolución" de Mikael Wolfe revela la historia ambiental de la reforma agraria en México y su impacto en las desigualdades rurales.💧
🔗Acceso abierto en tapuya.org/category/lat-sts-library/
#HistoriaAmbiental #México #ReformaAgraria
"Repartir el agua de la Revolución" de Mikael Wolfe revela la historia ambiental de la reforma agraria en México y su impacto en las desigualdades rurales.💧
🔗Acceso abierto en tapuya.org/category/lat-sts-library/
#HistoriaAmbiental #México #ReformaAgraria
January 26, 2026 at 5:01 PM
🐎¡Nueva entrada en [LAT-STS Library]!
"Repartir el agua de la Revolución" de Mikael Wolfe revela la historia ambiental de la reforma agraria en México y su impacto en las desigualdades rurales.💧
🔗Acceso abierto en tapuya.org/category/lat-sts-library/
#HistoriaAmbiental #México #ReformaAgraria
"Repartir el agua de la Revolución" de Mikael Wolfe revela la historia ambiental de la reforma agraria en México y su impacto en las desigualdades rurales.💧
🔗Acceso abierto en tapuya.org/category/lat-sts-library/
#HistoriaAmbiental #México #ReformaAgraria
🔨Part of “The Making of Methodologies/Methodologies of Making. When Precarity Matters” Cluster
doi.org/10.1080/2572...
#DigitaTools #ComputationalMethods #Cyborg #LatinAmerica #ScientificPractices #Tapuya8 #OpenAccess
doi.org/10.1080/2572...
#DigitaTools #ComputationalMethods #Cyborg #LatinAmerica #ScientificPractices #Tapuya8 #OpenAccess
Scores for feminist praxis: embodied study of knots and speculative genealogies
This paper discusses scores, an arts-based device for feminist knowing and praxis that supports relational, embodied, and imaginative learning across fields. Scores bring attention to nuanced dimen...
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January 23, 2026 at 7:38 PM
🔨Part of “The Making of Methodologies/Methodologies of Making. When Precarity Matters” Cluster
doi.org/10.1080/2572...
#DigitaTools #ComputationalMethods #Cyborg #LatinAmerica #ScientificPractices #Tapuya8 #OpenAccess
doi.org/10.1080/2572...
#DigitaTools #ComputationalMethods #Cyborg #LatinAmerica #ScientificPractices #Tapuya8 #OpenAccess
🎞️[NEWS]
Meet grad student Rinnette Riande González (UNAM), who explores digital technologies, personal identity, and the epistemological impact of computing on scientific practice. 🪞📎
🖳 Get to know more cool projects at tapuya.org/news/
@falsadictomia.bsky.social
Meet grad student Rinnette Riande González (UNAM), who explores digital technologies, personal identity, and the epistemological impact of computing on scientific practice. 🪞📎
🖳 Get to know more cool projects at tapuya.org/news/
@falsadictomia.bsky.social
January 23, 2026 at 4:03 PM
🎞️[NEWS]
Meet grad student Rinnette Riande González (UNAM), who explores digital technologies, personal identity, and the epistemological impact of computing on scientific practice. 🪞📎
🖳 Get to know more cool projects at tapuya.org/news/
@falsadictomia.bsky.social
Meet grad student Rinnette Riande González (UNAM), who explores digital technologies, personal identity, and the epistemological impact of computing on scientific practice. 🪞📎
🖳 Get to know more cool projects at tapuya.org/news/
@falsadictomia.bsky.social
🔸[Cluster Article] in Tapuya Vol. 8
Read “Scores for feminist praxis: embodied study of knots and speculative genealogies” 🧶🧵
By Catalina Hernández-Cabal
🧭Free at doi.org/10.1080/2572...
Read “Scores for feminist praxis: embodied study of knots and speculative genealogies” 🧶🧵
By Catalina Hernández-Cabal
🧭Free at doi.org/10.1080/2572...
Scores for feminist praxis transform physical knots into speculative genealogies, turning embodied gestures into rebellious tools that refuse universal truths and weave more liberatory academic horizons.
By Catalina Hernández-Cabal
🧭Free at doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2025.2513198
By Catalina Hernández-Cabal
🧭Free at doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2025.2513198
January 21, 2026 at 8:42 PM
🔸[Cluster Article] in Tapuya Vol. 8
Read “Scores for feminist praxis: embodied study of knots and speculative genealogies” 🧶🧵
By Catalina Hernández-Cabal
🧭Free at doi.org/10.1080/2572...
Read “Scores for feminist praxis: embodied study of knots and speculative genealogies” 🧶🧵
By Catalina Hernández-Cabal
🧭Free at doi.org/10.1080/2572...