Tapuya

Latin American Science, Technology, and Society

Tapuya

Latin American Science, Technology, and Society

Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society calls for submissions to the following thematic clusters that are planned for publication in Volume 5 (2022) and Volume 6 (2023). Approximately half of the essays published in any single volume (calendar year) will consist of three or four such thematic clusters. All submissions will be double-blind externally reviewed. For submission guidelines, please see the Instructions for Authors. Submissions can be made via the Journal’s Editorial Manager® site: www.edmgr.com/ttap.

Tracing Out Scalable Landscapes: Interpretative Layers about the Plantation Designs

Deadline for Abstracts: July 15, 2022

Editors:

Ângela Camana, Universidade Federal do Paraná (Brazil)

Vanessa Parreira Perin, Universidade Federal de São Carlos (Brazil)

The aerial views presented by television commercials show us, almost regardless of the season, plants sprouting in parallel lines, machines crossing low to the ground and taking the harvest to railway lines and roads crossing less desirable places. We are faced, therefore, with scalable and replicable models (Tsing, 2015), a construction of landscapes through technical dexterity. The infrastructure of modern mining, hydroelectric plants, industrial plants and agribusinesses eschew this kind of “samefication” process, which intertwines more than human subjects, institutions and artifacts.

Potential themes:

– Debates about the production of knowledge that enables scalable designs and (re)production of landscapes, such as techno-scientific, bureaucratic or economic knowledges;

– Descriptions and interpretations about the frictions between different ways of designing and inhabiting worlds, expressed in alliances, negotiations and conflicts among different social actors;

– Reflections on the dilemmas and challenges of doing research on this theme, such as: the transit between analytical scales, the theoretical-empirical articulation, the access to data and the relationship with interlocutors.

– Considerations on the role of infrastructure in landscape transformation (or maintenance) processes;

– Contributions that emphasize the specificity of bodies and landscapes in the global south, from the interface with other theoretical-epistemological perspectives (such as decolonial debates and black geographies),

Abstracts and a brief biographical note must be submitted by July 15th 2022

If accepted, full 8000-word drafts must be submitted by 15 October 2022.

This thematic cluster is planned to be published during the second half of 2023.

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        A New History of Sociology? Southern Perspectives

        Deadline for Abstracts: June 1, 2022

        Editors:

        Stéphane Dufoix

        Chen Hon-fai

        Writing the history of sociology has predominantly been a Western endeavor that would hide its name. Produced in such countries as the United States, France, Germany and Great Britain for the greatest part of it, sociology offered a synecdochical disciplinary narrative that would – and most often still does – assimilate the authors, concepts, theories, journals, and institutions from these “metropolitan” countries to represent the past and present of sociology.

        Papers may address :

        – the reception (in the sense of “local appropriation”) of Western sociological thinkers in non-Western countries

        – the formation of “classical” sociology in non-Western countries through the highlighting of national “local” classics and figures playing a crucial role in the emergence of sociological thought

        – sociological studies of how sociology was institutionalized in some Southern countries

        – how this effective history of sociology can serve to decenter the West and decolonize social scientific knowledge

        – cases of reorientation of the classical sociological canon

        Papers shall count roughly 8 000 to 10 000 words.

        Titles and abstracts are expected by June 1st 2022

        The issue would be published in 2023.

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              ‘Our’ Contemporary Conjuncture: Sense-making from a Decolonial Epistemic Perspective

              Deadline for Abstracts: August 1, 2022

              Corresponding Editor

               Saajidha Sader, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

              Editors

              Rasigan Maharajh, Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa

              Relebohile Moletsane, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

              Sabelo J Ndlovu-Gatsheni, University of Bayreuth, Germany 

              The 21st century provides a vantage point to witness the ravages of a global sixth mass extinction, with accelerating climate change, inequality and endemic poverty and precarity for the majority of peoples who are located in the global South and who have contributed the least to environmental pollution and ecological destruction. Besides creating the general alienation of producers from their lands and the products of their labour, the existing international division of labour and its institutional frameworks serve to reproduce and extend the combined, uneven, yet common characteristics of capitalist accumulation. The emergence of a zoonotic illness: severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, and its rapid spread into a global pandemic, further illustrate our precarity as a species. Linked to these, an epistemic capture has buttressed imperialism and ‘normalised’ worldviews that remain centred upon ways of thinking essentially framed in Western Europe.

              Abstracts (maximum 500 words) for proposed papers should be submitted by 1 August 2022 to Dr Saajidha Sader < [email protected] >. Full manuscripts will be due 1 March 2023. Abstracts and manuscripts must be in English.

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                  Toxic Goodness: Spatialities and Temporalities of Sustainable Biofuels

                  Deadline for Abstracts: September 1, 2021

                  Editors

                  Duygu Kaşdoğan, İzmir Katip Çelebi University, Turkey

                  Jessica Caporusso, York University, Canada

                  Katie Ulrich, Rice University, USA

                  Biofuels have long been proposed as solutions to fossil fuel reliance, though they are contentious. For some, biofuels are alternatives to petroleum that sustainably leverage the reproductive capacity of photosynthetic lives, such as plants. Various actors have pursued strategies to promote this sustainable vision of biofuels: national and subnational governments, intergovernmental organizations, and related civil and private sector actors work to develop  “best governance practices,” while scientists and engineers carry out advanced biotechnological research to improve the productivity and efficiency of biofuel production. On the other hand, critical social scientific research on biofuels has largely examined the destructive and unjust impacts of biofuels production on rural/agrarian communities and ecologies, with a focus on the complex relationships between the Global North and Global South, between state, capital and society, and between nature and society.

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                      Interaction turns in knowledge production: Actors, Problems and Methodologies

                      Deadline for Abstracts: March 1, 2022

                      Editors:

                      Dra. Mariela Bianco

                      Mag. María Goñi Mazzitelli

                      Mag. Camila Zeballos

                      University of the Republic, Uruguay

                      Knowledge production in interaction among different actors –be it specific contributions, sustained collaborations or co-productions- is becoming an integral part of academic practices. This trend is reflected in a prolific literature within STS studies (Sutz et al, 2019; Vessuri, Burgos, Bocco, 2012; Bunders, et. al., 2010; Regeer, 2009; Hessels and van Lente, 2008; Nowotny, et al., 2001; Gibbons, et al., 1994; Funtowicz and Ravetz, 1993, among others) and other fields of knowledge such as feminist epistemologies (Harding, 1992). This body of literature has sought to systematize and analyze how these processes develop, who participates, what types of questions and problems are addressed, what methods are put in practice and what results emerge.

                      Abstracts (max. 500 words) for proposed papers should be submitted by March 1, 2022 to María Goñi Mazzitelli [email protected]

                      Selected papers will be invited to submit full manuscripts by May 31, 2022, aiming for publication  in  Tapuya’s Vol. 6  (2023). Manuscripts must be submitted in English.

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