Article ID: CBB422764675

Theorizing STS from Asia—Toward an STS Multiscale Bioecology Framework: A Blurred Genre Manifesto/Agenda for an Emergent Field (December 2018)

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East Asia and Southeast Asia provide at least four relational locales or sites of cultural critique and materials for new twenty-first-century theory construction governed by growing biological and ecological knowledge. I document a moment in East Asian and Southeast Asian STS that grounds methodological advocacy for how anthropological STS initiatives revise received models and theories and how they work from multiple and differentiated Asian sites, thereby focusing on the importance of Asian examples in global theory without sliding into meaningless discussions of Asian essentialisms or East versus West orientalisms and occidentalisms. The four relational technoscientific sites and perspectives are those of (a) scientists as social hieroglyphs and peopled networks; (b) hidden curriculums and education reforms; (c) geoportraits of influencing machines, bioecological entanglements, and cultural flows; and (d) disaster and repair cycles, new and old cultural genres for coping, and structures of feelings. By citing the growing new anthropological STS ethnographic work in a variety of Asian locales, I suggest that new narratives and models are already out there as emergent forms of life, that is, as contested, shifting third spaces (forming in the interstices of old distinctions and categories) and ethical plateaus (terrains of decision making where multiple technological changes intersect and impose double-binds or trade-offs among simultaneous imperatives).

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Article Warwick Anderson (December 2018) Thickening Transregionalism: Historical Formations of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Southeast Asia. East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal (pp. 503-518). unapi

Article Prasenjit Duara (December 2018) Time and Tide Wait for No Man: A Response to Warwick Anderson and Michael M. J. Fischer. East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal (pp. 541-547). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Anaïs Mauuarin
Melkers, Julia
Tironi, Manuel
Hargittai, Eszter
Bruyninckx, Joeri
Julia Alejandra Morales-Fontanilla
Concepts
Technoscience; science and technology studies
Social networks
Ethnography
Methodology
Research
Life sciences
Time Periods
21st century
19th century
20th century
20th century, late
20th century, early
18th century
Places
United States
Southeast Asia
Luang Prabang, Laos
South Korea
Western states (U.S.)
Colombia
Institutions
Musée d'Ethnographie du Trocadéro
Accademia del Cimento, Florence
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