This Way Does Not Come to the Point: Comments on “Provincializing Sts: Postcoloniality, Symmetry, and Method”

STS Between Centers and Peripheries: How Transnational are Leading STS Journals?

“…First, STS communities from central countries are increasingly aware that their notion of "situated knowledge" was actually limited to the developed world. This is shown by the growing attention paid to "sciences from below" (Harding 2008), "post-colonial STS" (Anderson 2017;Harding 2011) and, more recently, "provincializing STS" (Chen 2017;Law and Lin 2017).…”

Welcome to South-South dialogues: an introduction to a collaborative project between East Asian Science, Technology and Society, and Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society

“…In this experiment, they focus not only on the last article by Lin and Law, but on the entire body of works through which Lin and Law and their respondents have shed light on the circulation of knowledge, the postcolonial dimension of it, and the need for metropolitan STS to take seriously the categories and analytical frameworks produced elsewhere. These works appeared as a forum 2 through EASTS in which Law and Lin's (2017a) original paper, "Provincializing STS: Postcoloniality, Symmetry, and Method" was published and discussants invited to respond (Anderson 2017;Farquhar 2017;Morita 2017;Chen 2017; also Law and Lin 2017b). The main reason for such a forum was to answer puzzling questions that emerged when listening to Law's 4S talk after he received the 2016 Bernal Prize: "Why were EASTS and other non-English STS works seldom mentioned?…”