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Vivette García Deister
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Ethnographer of science beyond the lab. HPS, STS. Editor-in-Chief @tapuya.org
Amid Tapuya’s English-only policy, this editorial wrestles with standpoint theory’s paradox: How can Southern voices desire visibility in the North without losing their linguistic texture to translation's erasures? 🐎

By Juan Felipe Guevara Aristizábal

🎩Free at doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2025.2581525
February 9, 2026 at 7:10 PM
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📖[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. 🚧
February 9, 2026 at 7:05 PM
Este mes se presenta Fernanda Samaniego Bañuelo en el Coloquio de Tutorxs del Posgrado en Filosofía de la Ciencia, con el tema “Conceptos temporales en la Disputación Metafísica L del Doctor Eximius”.

🗓️ 16 de febrero, 16 hrs.
🔗 filosofiadelaciencia.posgrado.unam.mx/coloquio-de-...
February 6, 2026 at 5:32 PM
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🌱[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.
February 6, 2026 at 4:04 PM
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 innovation.

♻️ Free read at doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2025.2539618
@tapuya.org
January 26, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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
January 19, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Tarde pero seguro, les comparto este texto que escribí para el @anthrotheory.bsky.social.
Planteo repensar lo “inquietante”/”haunting” como metodología para la investigación de la identificación de migrantes desaparecidos y las nociones de justicia.

🕯️ www.at-commons.com/pub/dbu8b0wc...
January 14, 2026 at 5:06 PM
Latin America’s 'cyborg methods' turn digital precarity into invention—where scientists hack tools, pirate data, and forge collaborative workarounds amidst infrastructural scarcity across five Southern countries. 🦾👾 @tapuya.org
January 12, 2026 at 6:06 PM
¡Nos vemos en unos minutos!
January 12, 2026 at 4:38 PM
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If possible, REPORT at support.google.com/mail/contact...
December 16, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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🏆[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
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🟡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
Chilean geothermal research reimagines geology after drilling’s demise, shifting from extraction to speculative encounters with Andean landscapes, where rock and scale transform beyond disciplinary bounds.⚡⛰️

♨️Open Access doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2025.2470568 @tapuya.org
#Tapuya8 #OpenAccess
November 18, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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⚜️[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
🔸[Original Article] in Tapuya Vol. 8

Colombia’s Cauca basin reveals water’s volumetric turn where charts, levees, and flow data co-produced state power, transforming rivers from natural features into abstract, governable volumes.

🏞️Open Access: doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2025.2513196 @tapuya.org
November 11, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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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
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🎤[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/
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November 3, 2025 at 5:29 PM
🟡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
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November 3, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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❇️[Calls & Applications]

XVI Jornadas Esocite convocatoria para la recepción de ponencias a paneles / Chamada para o envio de trabalhos aos painéis!

Info 👉tapuya.org/category/calls-applications/
October 31, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Storytelling interviews transform data into living seeds, grown across generations through children’s objects and adult narratives, this speculative method embraces precarity as affective, co-designed knowledge-making. 🌱📊

🚸Free read at doi.org/10.1080/2572...
October 30, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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📖 [LAT-STS Library]

A new book has just been added to the library. Check out “El orden de los números. Historia y sociología de la estadística y la cuantificación”, coordinated by Ana María Medeles & Héctor Vera

🔗 tapuya.org/category/lat...
#HistoryOfNumbers #Statistics #STS
October 27, 2025 at 4:01 PM
¡Hoy!👇
Invitada la comunidad del Posgrado en Filosofía de la Ciencia, UNAM al Coloquio de Tutorxs de octubre, donde presentará Kirareset Barrera García.

🗓️Octubre 27, 16:00 h.
🔗 y más información en filosofiadelaciencia.posgrado.unam.mx/coloquio-de-...
October 27, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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📳[Calls & Applications]

CTS – Chile invita a su XIII Encuentro “Arqueología del futuro y epistemologías del porvenir”, que tendrá lugar la segunda semana de enero 2026.

✅ Revisa los detalles para postular en tapuya.org/category/calls-applications/
October 24, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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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
October 23, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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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
October 21, 2025 at 4:05 PM