Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society

24/11/2025

🟧New Thematic Cluster 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 https://www.tandfonline.com/action/showAxaArticles?journalCode=ttap20

24/11/2025

21/11/2025

🌍 [Calls & Applications]

¡Becas Marie Curie en UOC Barcelona! Investiga prácticas de cuidado, ecología urbana y arquitectura multiespecies con TAR/etnografía.

¡Solicita antes del 31 enero, 2026!

🔗 Info: /tapuya.org/category/calls-applications/

21/11/2025

🌍 [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/

19/11/2025

🔸[Original Article] in Tapuya Vol. 8

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.⚡⛰️

By Martín Fonck

♨️Read at: doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2025.2470568

18/11/2025

🔍 [Editor’s Picks]

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

🔗 More picks at https://tapuya.org/resources-2/editors-picks/

14/11/2025

🌍[NEWS]

Join of Disaster Studies & 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 https://tapuya.org/news/

13/11/2025

🔸[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. 💧🌐

Read “The politics of restless motion: water governance and state formation in Colombia’s upper Cauca basin, 1910–1940” by Alejandro Ponce de León

🏞️Open Access: doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2025.2513196

11/11/2025

⚜️[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] East Asian Science, Technology and Society

07/11/2025

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.

These articles invite readers to think from and within Latin America as a vibrant site of theoretical and empirical innovation.

📖 Explore Volume 2 on Taylor & Francis Online: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ttap20/2/1

06/11/2025

🔸[Cluster Article] in Tapuya Vol. 8

Migrant objects as companions: Fieldwork in Chile 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
By Caterine Galaz Valderrama & Blanca Callén Moreu



🔨Part of “The Making of Methodologies/Methodologies of Making. When Precarity Matters” Cluster