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Book SynopsisChapter 1: On the notion and theorization of peripheral science.- Chapter 2: The subordinate integration in the production and circulation of knowledge: origin, development and rewritings.- Chapter 3: Give Me the World and I Will Raise Laboratories: Veiled Provincialism and Geopolitics of Knowledge in Latin American STS.- Chapter 4: Latin American Infrastructure Studies: On the fragility of modernist projects.- Chapter 5: Towards a “Bio-Sociotechnical Systems” Approach: considerations and evidences based on communicable diseases.- Chapter 6: Gender and the aspirational biomedicalization of sexual risk.- Chapter 7: Technologies and knowledge in gray zones.- Chapter 8: Social Technology: historical development and appropriations of the concept.- Chapter 9: The Engaged Engineering and (other) technological fields (EETF) Program – A Review from a Latin American Perspective.- Chapter 10: Local eco-innovation: contributions to the debate on sustainable innovation.- Chapter 11: Bringing convivial tools into STS Studies. The intersection of artistic practices, agri-food, and technoscience in Latin America.- Chapter 12: Cognitive Materialism: A Theory on Capitalism and Knowledge.- Chapter 13: Socio-technical analysis in action: Processes of construction of working/non-working of technologies.- Chapter 14: Citation Functions and Their Role in Scientific Organization.- Chapter 15: Transversality: The Emergence of an Environmental Ethic in Climate Governance.- Chapter 16: Technological Bargaining: Limits and Potentials of Labor Agency in the Face of Technological Change.- Chapter 17: Breaking the deficit-dialogue binary with hybrids: Opening-up science-society framings from the South.
