We Have Never Been Latecomers!? Making Knowledge Spaces for East Asian Technosocial Practices

Lin, Wen-yuan; Law, John

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“…Imposing and importing a science-led response to localities, ignores the many locals. In exploring what a postcolonial STS can look like, Law and Lin (2015) argue for the creation of alternative knowledge spaces in understanding these practices. These are the spaces "… where sociotechnical change reaches a level of communal consciousness."…”

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“…These are early days and evidence is scant. Whilst many dashboards are available to read trends and predict cataclysmic futures, Moon's call (2010) for ethnographic interrogations of how postcolonial societies construct their own logics of technology and place, practically and rhetorically, will reveal the material-semiotic translations (Lin and Law 2015) in such times. This requires consideration of the circulation of global ideas and practices, together with the situatedness of how local heterogeneous socio-material relations configure (Law and Lin 2015).…”

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The lockdown response taken by many governments in flattening the curve of coronavirus infections has of course increased the reliance on digital tools to enable work (for those able to do so) and social interaction. There are emergent, somewhat contingent, and coproductive dynamics at work between platforms and urban life and space with the contextual specificities of each, no doubt, leading to different ICT-informed solutions. In South Africa, the state has taken a phased but stronghold approach with unfortunate impacts on livelihoods and food security, especially those in the informal economy and those with part-time or insecure employment. The community action network (CAN) initiative started as a means to enable neighbourhood assistance through WhatsApp groups in Cape Town. In this article, the author reflects on how this initiative reflects the early hopes of William Mitchell (and others) that saw the potential for informational spaces to become more democratic as interfaces of connection. In Cape Town, one may see Mitchell's vision fulfilled.

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“…vis-à-vis theoretically and substantively extending STS. Lin and Law (2015) responded "We Have Never Been Latecomers!" and a number of scholars have joined this complex and important conversation (e.g., Chen 2012).…”

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Imagining Alternative and Better Worlds: Isabel Fletcher Talks with Adele E. Clarke

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Clarke

2018

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In this interview, Adele Clarke and Isabel Fletcher discuss the different routes that led Clarke to science and technology studies (STS), the field’s increasing engagement with biomedical topics, and her perspectives on its character today. Clarke describes how women’s health activism and teaching feminist critiques of bioscience/biomedicine led her to participate in academic networks now known as feminist STS and trans-national reproduction studies. She reflects on the importance of inter-/trans-disciplinary collaboration in her work, but also raises concerns that the rapid expansion of the field has resulted in inadequate training for newcomers in the “theory-method packages” of STS, and hence poor quality scholarship. For her, the future of STS lies in approaches analyzing the complex intersections between technoscience, gender, race, (post)coloniality, and indigenous knowledges, and in its expansion beyond Europe and North America, to Asia, Central and South America, and Africa. In her following reflection, Isabel Fletcher considers the importance of inter/trans-disciplinarity for STS and highlights the role a politically engaged STS can play in imagining alternative and better worlds.

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“…And as you indicate such erasures are telling in Law and Lin’s work. They, for example, call for a ‘balance of betrayal’ to bring out non-Western analytics (Lin & Law, 2014, 2015) and yet in their citations the postcolonial special issue that they miss (with which you have engaged) is the one edited by Itty Abraham in The Economic and Political Weekly (Abraham, 2006). But there is also a broader intellectual/analytical issue here.…”

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‘Things Do Look Different from Here, on the Borderlands’: An Interview with Warwick Anderson

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Anderson

2017

Science, Technology and Society

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Amit PrAsAd (AP): Thank you Warwick for the interview. It is indeed a pleasure and honour to have this opportunity to further engage with your vast intellectual contribution. I am hoping to use this occasion to further explore some of your analytical and methodological interventions. Let me start by taking you back nearly one and a half decades. In the special issue that you co-edited in 2002 you deployed the phrase 'postcolonial technoscience', which acquired a trajectory of its own and has been commonly used in various articles and books thereafter. Obviously, you were juxtaposing postcolonial analytics and sensibility and the Latourian concept of technoscience. In fact, you candidly asserted in your introduction to the special issue: 'A postcolonial study of science and technology might offer new, and more richly textured, answers to many of the questions posed in actor-network-theory' [ANT] (2002, p. 649). Thereafter, in another article, you wrote: 'While they [actor-network-theorists] shy from any direct engagement with postcolonial studies, they seem to have picked up and amplified the vibe' (2009, p. 392). More recently, you have celebrated Wen-yuan Lin and John Law's call for 'balance of betrayal' in STS (Lin & Law, 2014), calling their contribution 'an enticing prospect' that opens new possibilities for postcolonial investigations. Can you elaborate your intellectual affinity and connections with ANT? And do you think with Lin and Law's intervention ANT has not only embraced postcolonial concerns, but is also charting new trajectories in that regard?

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We Have Never Been Latecomers!? Making Knowledge Spaces for East Asian Technosocial Practices

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