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- Convenors:
-
Oscar Javier Maldonado
(Linköping University)
Derly Yohanna Sanchez Vargas (Lancaster University)
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- Location:
- ATB G109
- Start time:
- 11 April, 2013 at
Time zone: Europe/London
- Session slots:
- 1
Short Abstract:
Technoscience, knowledge(s) and politics in Latin America
Long Abstract:
How knowledge originates and reproduces has been a traditional focus of research in the natural and social sciences, as well as in the humanities. More recent research seems to have concentrated in how knowledge should be protected and managed in order to foster innovation. In recent years, the political discourses heard in many Latin American countries have incorporated 'innovation' as an inspirational goal. References are made to transforming LA countries into post-modern 'Knowledge Societies'. Taken into consideration the extraordinary cultural and biological diversity of Latin America, it comes to no surprise that debates had also arisen in relation to the protection of traditional knowledge. Such debates have permeated and indeed influenced important global governmental institutions such as the Convention for Biological Diversity.
We are in need of a theory of innovation for studying the complex web that has blurred the boundaries of the natural, political and cultural realms. This panel would like to invite contributions on analyses of process of knowledge co-production in Latin America. We look for participants to discuss on the shapes that this merge of nature, society and politics is taking under new techno-political regimes in Latin America, and more generally, to advance in the construction of a theory of innovation. We welcome critical studies of knowledge co-production in Latin America in areas such as genomics, food security, biodiversity conservation, natural resources and environmental management.
Accepted papers:
Session 1Felipe Raglianti (Lancaster University)
Paper short abstract:
Through a photographic portfolio, I present ATMs from Chile and UK as cyborgs that help to pass on money, suggesting with this ontology brief modifications to some Latin American and European digital policies.
Paper long abstract:
This work is committed with the field call Science, Technology and Society, to think about the sociotechnical gesture of passing money on with ATMs. It presents a portfolio of pictures of ATMs from Santiago in Chile, and Lancaster in the United Kingdom, highlighting how these sites of financial manipulation entail specific interactions with screens and computers. The photographic register of these interactions posits ATM as cyborgs (Haraway 1991), fusing society and technology, culture and nature, human and machine, to read with this ontology some fragments of Latin American and European policies of the digital. In this sense, I discuss differences between ATMs, like crafting them in security booths or building's walls, to compare their public existence in relation to what matters as digital development. I propose then to extend policies for digital development to this phenomena, since it diffuses certain individual distinctions, like male and female, to generate more specific forms of being in the world. With this movement, I make these policies particularly responsible of creating some of the gaps they intend to bridge, but also I recommend ways of imagining how brief textual changes might produce more inclusive forms of passing money on.
Donna Haraway, 1991, "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century," en Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature, editorial Routledge, pp.149-181.
Derly Yohanna Sanchez Vargas (Lancaster University)
Paper short abstract:
In this paper I attempt to present the different localities, enactments and materialities of objects, practices and people involved in the production of Colombian “sustainable special coffees”.
Paper long abstract:
In this paper I attempt to present the different localities, enactments and materialities of objects, practices and people involved in the production of Colombian "sustainable special coffees". This presentation drawn the mattering of Sustainability, firstly enacted as a certification, in some specific locations such as the Coffee farm (as practices to produce sustainable coffees), a group of consumers, Non-profits organizations that promote sustainability by developing standards and certifications; the International Coffee Organization and the Colombian National Federation of Coffee growers which in alliance with CENICAFE (The National Centre for Coffee Researh) create and distribute knowledge and technology for achieving sustainability in the coffee production. This paper is a first exploration for analysing how those locations interfere and co-exist together and the network that makes possible transitions to sustainable production. Finally, this description is framed by the Science and Technologies Studies (STS) as a helpful contribution to deal with such complexities
Oscar Javier Maldonado (Linköping University)
Paper short abstract:
Development, Epidemiology and Disease geographies: cervical cancer enactments in Latin America
Paper long abstract:
This paper makes a description of the uses of the epidemiological research and its representations in the production of cervical cancer as public health concern in the Global South, in particular in Latin America. I explore the role of national communities and international organizations in the production of data and its use in the production of the disease as an entity with a material existence, located and global at the same time. Moreover, I analyse the interference between technical and political discourse in the production of images of developing countries and Development, as well as, its consequences in the production of policies.