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Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society @tapuya.org · 1d

🌎[Calls & Applications]

Have you sent it yet? The deadline for submitting abstracts is fast approaching! ⚠️

🌳More info at tapuya.org/2025/09/15/transdisciplinary-research-for-socio-environmental-challenges-from-theory-to-practice/

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Vivette García Deister @vivavivette.bsky.social · 1d

Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society @tapuya.org · 1d

New Article “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
#Governance #Colombia #hydraulics #StateFormation #STS #Tapuya8 #OpenAccess

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Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society @tapuya.org · 4d

🥤[Editor’s Picks]

Esta semana nuestrxs editorxs invitan a consultar el dossier “PLÁSTICO” de la @revistaunam.bsky.social. En este número, se explora cómo el plástico ha definido nuestra era. 📔

🛍️Lee más en tapuya.org/resources-2/...

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Vivette García Deister @vivavivette.bsky.social · 4d

🕮 Vengan a la presentación del volumen colectivo “Interrogating Development. The Mobilisation of Science, Technologies, and Technical Assistance in Postwar Mexico”

📅8 de octubre, 12 hrs.
📍Salón Académico del Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas (UNAM).

¡Ahí nos vemos!

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Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society @tapuya.org · 7d

🩹 [Volume 2] Frail Modernities: Latin American Infrastructures between Repair and Ruination

👥Edited by Raquel Velho and Sebastián Ureta
🔗 www.tandfonline.com/toc/ttap20/2/1?nav=tocList

#Tapuya2 #OpenAccess #STS #Infrastructures #RepairAndRuination #LatinAmerica #FrailModernities #GlobalSTS

Browse all journals

www.tandfonline.com

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Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society @tapuya.org · 11d

📚New in [LAT-STS Library]!

"Latin American Breakthroughs in STS Theory", edited by Noela Invernizzi & Leandro Rodriguez Medina showcases original contributions from the region, bridging Global North-South dialogues. A must-read for diversifying STS.

🔗 tapuya.org/category/lat-sts-library/
#STS

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Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society @tapuya.org · 14d

📲 [Calls & Applications]

@gtsciences.bsky.social seeks scholar focused on Gender, Race, and/or Ethnicity to join the School of History & Sociology. Teach, mentor, and advance research in #STS with a commitment to diversity and inclusion.

💼 Details at tapuya.org/category/calls-applications/

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Vivette García Deister @vivavivette.bsky.social · 15d

Sandra Harding’s legacy: A force of nature who built Tapuya in dialogue, reshaping STS through standpoint theory, decolonial friendship, and fierce care for Latin American voices.

🕯️doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2025.2536961

#Obituary #SandraHarding #STS #TapuyaLASTS @tapuya.org

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Vivette García Deister @vivavivette.bsky.social · 18d

¡Hoy!

Vivette García Deister @vivavivette.bsky.social · 25d

🌆No se pierdan la presentación del Dr. Carlos David Suárez Pascal en el Coloquio de Tutoras del Posgrado en Filosofía de la Ciencia.
Queda invitada la comunidad de Filosofía de la Ciencia a escucharla.

🗓️22 de septiembre, 16:00 h.

🔗Información filosofiadelaciencia.posgrado.unam.mx/coloquio-de-...

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Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society @tapuya.org · 18d

👁️🗨️[Editor’s Picks]

This week, our editors recommend the 12th issue of Limn, which reframes climate change through interiors—cells, bodies, buildings, and systems. 🏞️

🔗Explore more at tapuya.org/resources-2/editors-picks/
#EditorsPicks #Limn

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Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society @tapuya.org · 21d

🟡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

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Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society @tapuya.org · 23d

🟡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

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Revista HCSM @revistahcsm.bsky.social · 26d

The review by Karina Ramacciotti, published in @tapuya.org, emphasizes how the book "Uma História Global e Brasileira da AIDS 1986-2021", by Marcos Cueto and Gabriel Lopes, combines an analysis of Brazil’s experience with AIDS with a broader global perspective on the epidemic.
bit.ly/4ppr4su

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Vivette García Deister @vivavivette.bsky.social · 25d

🌆No se pierdan la presentación del Dr. Carlos David Suárez Pascal en el Coloquio de Tutoras del Posgrado en Filosofía de la Ciencia.
Queda invitada la comunidad de Filosofía de la Ciencia a escucharla.

🗓️22 de septiembre, 16:00 h.

🔗Información filosofiadelaciencia.posgrado.unam.mx/coloquio-de-...

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Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society @tapuya.org · 25d

🚨 [Calls & Applications]

Tapuya invites contributions to the Thematic Cluster on transdisciplinary research for socio-environmental challenges. 🌎🌳
Abstract deadline: Oct 13, 2025.

Submit here 👉 tapuya.org/2025/09/15/t...

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Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society @tapuya.org · Sep 5

🏁[Volume 2] Entangled Sciences of Gender, Sexuality, Race: Latin American Issues
👥Edited by Sandra Harding, Tania Pérez-Bustos & Manuela Fernández-Pinto

How have Latin American feminists shaped the sciences of gender, sexuality, and race?

🔗 tandfonline.com/toc/ttap20/2/1?nav=tocList
#OpenAccess

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Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society @tapuya.org · Sep 10

🌎[Calls & Applications]

Join RECSLAC’s online pedagogy workshop with experts Emily Wakild & Frederico Freitas. Get teaching modules, primary sources & practical strategies—no prior expertise needed!

🔗 Register by October 10
tapuya.org/category/calls-applications/
#RECSLAC @recslac.bsky.social

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Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society @tapuya.org · 28d

🟨Just Out

New Book Review "Toward a political history of HIV in Brazil and worldwide" 🔴
By Karina Ramacciotti

🎫 doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2025.2529699
#HIV #STS #Brazil #MarcosCueto #GabrielLopes #OpenAccess #Tapuya8

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Mara Dicenta @mdicenta.bsky.social · Aug 28

'May the eyes of the missing haunt you.' Attending to things that are not there (by Vivette García-Deister @vivavivette.bsky.social)

I first encountered haunting as a methodology unexpectedly in 2017, while conducting fieldwork in Mexico City...

www.at-commons.com/pub/dbu8b0wc...

'May the eyes of the missing haunt you.' Attending to things that are not there

www.at-commons.com

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Vivette García Deister @vivavivette.bsky.social · Sep 3

Precarity as method: In Rosario’s informal settlements, a tent lab and second-hand equipment forge citizen science that unsettles expertise, turning water crises into sites of collaborative invention. 🧪🏚️

🔗Free read at: doi.org/10.1080/2572... @tapuya.org

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Vivette García Deister @vivavivette.bsky.social · Sep 1

¡Hoy! 👇

Vivette García Deister @vivavivette.bsky.social · Aug 21

🗣️En septiembre empiezan las presentaciones en el Coloquio de Tutores del Posgrado en Filosofía de la Ciencia con el Dr. Mario Gómez Torrente.

Queda invitada la comunidad de @Fil_CienciaUNAM a escucharla!

🗓️1 de septiembre, 16:00 hrs.

🔗Zoom: cuaed-unam-mx.zoom.us/j/8547870000...

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Vivette García Deister @vivavivette.bsky.social · Aug 27

Uber’s Latin American expansion reveals regulatory gaps: While policies prioritize market access, critical issues like driver rights and data transparency remain sidelined in the platform economy’s sociotechnical battleground. 🚗🚕

Read it free at doi.org/10.1080/2572...
@tapuya.org

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Vivette García Deister @vivavivette.bsky.social · Aug 25

✍🏻¡Nos vemos el miércoles!

Vivette García Deister @vivavivette.bsky.social · Aug 19

✍🏻Les invitamos al ciclo de conferencias “La invención etnográfica” por Tomás S. Criado a finales de este mes. Evento presencial.

Conferencias: 27 y 28 de agosto, 10-14 h., Unidad de Posgrado
Taller: 29 de agosto, 10-14 h., Facultad de Ciencias

ℹ️Para más información, consulte la liga lc.cx/4eZtUI

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Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society @tapuya.org · Aug 25

🗪 [Editor’s Picks]

Nuestros editores invitan a revisitar esta entrevista de Pablo Castillo a Leandro Rodriguez Medina sobre cómo la tecnología transforma movimientos sociales, destacando la importancia de alianzas entre ciencia y sociedad.

🪧Más en tapuya.org/resources-2/editors-picks/

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Vivette García Deister @vivavivette.bsky.social · Aug 21

🗣️En septiembre empiezan las presentaciones en el Coloquio de Tutores del Posgrado en Filosofía de la Ciencia con el Dr. Mario Gómez Torrente.

Queda invitada la comunidad de @Fil_CienciaUNAM a escucharla!

🗓️1 de septiembre, 16:00 hrs.

🔗Zoom: cuaed-unam-mx.zoom.us/j/8547870000...

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