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A group selfie in a relatively empty bar, with a night sky in the background out of the window, including Joe Deville, Anna Dowrick and Julien McHardy, all smiling at the camera

A rare chance for a mini-mattering-meeting at the #CopimConference, where @joedeville.bsky.social opened the event talking about his work with @copim.bsky.social & Julien McHardy is speaking about the possible futures of #ScholarLed publishing. Joined by Mattering co-editor @annadowrick.bsky.social

We thank all the contributors for their incredible work. We also thank Tabita Rezaire for the beautiful cover artwork and Julien McHardy for the cover design.

Using case studies of technoscientific globalisation ‘from below’ in Asia, Latin America and Africa, the authors illuminate the creative ways in which non-hegemonic players disrupt technoscientific markets globally.

Paying careful attention to production, extraction, consumption and revaluation practices, the volume demonstrates how sectors ranging from fintech and digital platforms to agriculture and pharmaceuticals are being radically reshaped by interventions from regions and actors often seen as marginal.

This book offers a major intervention in thinking about globalisation and technoscientific innovation, drawing on detailed ethnographies of science and technology from across the Global South.

Here is a video from the contributors to tell you all about it:
vimeo.com/showcase/117...

Technoscientific Globalisation from Below

📚BOOK LAUNCH 📚
We’re delighted to announce the publication of

🌍Technoscientific Globalisation from Below🌎

Open access&free to download via @matteringpress.bsky.social

www.matteringpress.org/books/techno...

Edited by Mathieu Quet, Koichi Kameda, Jessica Pourraz & Yves-Marie Rault-Chodankar

The digital version of this book will be available fully open access, meaning always for free, in early August - watch this space!

Don’t just take our work for it, hear from the editors and authors themselves about the book and why you should read it. vimeo.com/showcase/117...

With powerful case studies from across the Global South - from fintech in India to pharmaceuticals in Brazil - the book examines how technoscientific knowledge, labour and politics move through infrastructures of extraction, circulation, and care.

This collection shifts the lens on technoscientific progress, challenging taken-for-granted assumptions that technological innovation belongs only to the Global North. Offering a postcolonial counterpoint, it centres grassroots, subaltern and locally-grounded technoscientific practices.

📖 NEW BOOK ALERT 📖
We’re excited to announce the upcoming release of Technoscientific Globalisation from Below. Edited by Mathieu Quet, Koichi Kameda, Jessica Pourraz & Yves-Marie Rault-Chodankar www.matteringpress.org/books/techno...

Markdown, dive deep 23 May 2025, 15:00-16:30 CEST: A hybrid online session exploring Markdown writing & publishing for deep mapping

Join us online on 23 May for a hybrid workshop hosted by the Open Book Futures Experimental Publishing Group, exploring Markdown-based publishing workflows and visual essaying with @jstor.bsky.social's Juncture. Learn more & sign up: copim.pubpub.org/pub/markdown...

Happy that "BEYOND ‘NO FEE’: WHY DIAMOND OPEN ACCESS IS MUCH MORE THAN A BUSINESS MODEL" - the chapter I co-authored with Pierre Mounier and @johanrooryck.bsky.social - has now been published 😀 #OABooks library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...

mediastudies.press welcomes Natascha Chtena as Publishing Project Manager

Collective funding for community-led Diamond open access books builds capacity! www.mediastudies.press/pub/2025-03-... We are very pleased that @mediastudiespress.bsky.social have been able to benefit from @nataschachtena.bsky.social's expertise. Our supporting libraries deserve all the gratitude!