Journal of Engaging Science, Technology, and Society (ESTS)

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📢Issue 11.3 out now!

2 Engagements, 2 ORAs + the Final Editorial of the 2020-25 ESTS Collective on the difference & promise of leading and running a diamond open access journal

#ClimateChange #TransnationalSTS #Retooling #Openness #HousingJustice

#OpenScience

👀https://bit.ly/3LoiLxT

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How do crime analysts navigate the tensions between data from police reporting and the request to produce data analysis for governance purposes? How does it affect knowledge production in police work?

👀Read by M. Leese: https://doi.org/qjzw

#Standardization #Desrosières

A photograph of a world map marked with colored pins at various locations of Southeast Asia, with a close-up focusing on Indonesia. By "Z" under a free Unsplash license: https://bit.ly/4qgUjgJ.

What is the role of #STS in reimagining #SoutheastAsia as an #Area? How can #STS do so without letting any single regime of spatial identity dominate to the extent that it becomes fixed or given?

👀Read T. Winichakul’s meditation in his Afterword: https://doi.org/qjxb

Photograph of a pile of durian fruits in a basket by the roadside in Singapore. By Aiva Apsite under a free Unsplash license: https://bit.ly/48TPgvv.

How may following the embodied and tactile worlding of the #durian fruit add generative possibilities to well-rehearsed critiques of #AreaStudies?

👀"Manifesto of the Durian" by @FadjarThufail: https://doi.org/qjwq

#SoutheastAsia #EntangledAreas #Multispecies #Topology

Photograph of cattle being transported out of a truck to the border of Thailand. Photograph by the author of the article.

#Areas are not containers—they materialise, for example, as the changing set of #multispecies entanglements linking humans, cattle, chemicals, and cultural tastes across borders

👀Read by @JirapornZwemmer on Southeast Asian cross-border #CattleTrade: https://doi.org/qjv4

2015 photograph by the author of the article of a newly created red earth road in Mondulkiri province, northeastern Cambodia.

By following #malaria across Greater Mekong #borderlands—& its links to Africa through parasites, research networks + postcolonial histories—this article rethinks what #regions are & why they matter for #GlobalMalariaControl

👀Read by @imagethnography: https://doi.org/qjvz

Photograph of a group of people standing on a dock next to a boat in Jakarta. By Pradamas Gifarry under a free Unsplash license: https://bit.ly/49JxOvU

How does #RacialBelonging mediate the production of #PopularTerritories & thereby unsettle + rearticulate dominant understandings of #area?

👀Read by @XazaarAdjame on the collective life in movement of #Indonesian #UrbanYouth: https://doi.org/qjnw

#Blackness #Circulation

Photograph of a row of tall buildings sitting next to a lush green field. By Charlies X under a free Unsplash license: https://bit.ly/441eYwJ.

Taking the example of peripheral urban gardens in Manila @ksaguin reconceptualizes #Area within #Urbanism + #SoutheastAsia, shifting from static spatial formulations toward its generative capacities for multiplicity & heterogeneity

👀https://doi.org/qh2x

#UrbanEntangledAreas

Color drawing of traditional gold smelters in Borneo in the mid 19th century. Depiction by Dutch colonial geologist Carl Anton L. M. Schwaner, 1853. Image in the public domain: https://bit.ly/3Mhaxrj.

This engagement urges readers to rethink Southeast Asian studies by delving into how #SoutheastAsia as an #area emerged through & is shaped by the colonial logic of #EconomicGeology

👀@karib.13 & D. Listiana: https://doi.org/qh2v

#GeoColonialAssemblages #EntangledAreas

Color drawing of traditional gold smelters in Borneo in the mid 19th century. Depiction by Dutch colonial geologist Carl Anton L. M. Schwaner, 1853. Image in the public domain: https://bit.ly/3Mhaxrj.

This engagement urges readers to rethink Southeast Asian studies by delving into how #SoutheastAsia as an #area emerged through & is shaped by the colonial logic of #EconomicGeology

👀@karib.13 & D. Listiana: https://doi.org/qh2v

#GeoColonialAssemblages #EntangledAreas

Photograph of a mountainous landscape in Nepal. By Tobias Federle under a free Unsplash license: https://bit.ly/4pcslCP.

How can rising fine-dust pollution in #Zomia signal how this historically autonomous highland region of #SoutheastAsia is being transformed by new forms of #EnvironmentalExploitation?

👀Read by @jonanthro: https://doi.org/qh2t

#Anthropocene #Atmosphere #Dust #EntangledAreas

Snapshot of the modelling of a tsunami scenario. By Sven Harig, Antonia Immerz, Weniza, Jonathan Griffin, et al., 2020: http://doi.org/10.1007/s00024-019-02305-1.

How do #Indonesia’s #tsunami-warning systems mediate social + environmental life, shaping and interconnecting imagined spaces and the meanings different groups attach to them?

👀 Read Irina Rafliana's engagement: https://doi.org/qhwf

#EntangledAreas #SoutheastAsia

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How can the idea of #buoyancy help question the hype around #FloatingCities amid the rapid submergence of #SoutheastAsia’s coastlines?

👀Read @rsiriw & M. S. C. Gemilang: https://doi.org/qhrh

#CoastCities #UrbanJustice #CoastalAdaptation #UrbanAnthropology

Photograph by the authors of the article of a building partially under water.

How can the idea of #buoyancy help question the hype around #FloatingCities amid the rapid submergence of #SoutheastAsia’s coastlines?

👀Read @rsiriw & M. S. C. Gemilang: https://doi.org/qhrh

#CoastCities #UrbanJustice #CoastalAdaptation #UrbanAnthropology

Piles of soil at the interface of a road and a water body. Photograph by the authors.

In this #collaborative engagement, Zahirah, Klein, Bogart, Keller, Huang & Gutierrez explore the potential of #sediments in #CoastalEnvironments for rethinking the #entanglements of history, policy + national #developmentalism in #SoutheastAsia

👀 https://doi.org/qhcm

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How can the concept of #entanglement help to think anew about #areas & #SoutheastAsia in the #Anthropocene? What new #STS reflections does it open up to?

👀@cbruunjensen@bsky.social + F. Thufail's intro of their thematic collection "Entangled Areas": https://doi.org/qg64

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📢Issue 11.2 out now!

12 engagements from the thematic collection "Entangled Areas" on #STS & #SouthEastAsia in the #Anthropocene + the journal's editorial reflection on the collection

++ 1 ORA on the limits of standardization in police reporting

👀https://bit.ly/49RT8PW

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Can the scientific practice of #KnowingMicrobes rely on inquiry and interdependence instead of control?

Read the study by @heymayahey on fermentation as an #epistemic practice in a #sake #brewery in #Japan: https://doi.org/pzvq

#makingspaceforMicrobes

A collage of 5 hand-drawn and computer-generated illustrations depicting the relation between the human gut and brain. Collage by the authors. Credits of individual images, from top left to bottom right (licenses purchased by the authors): (i) Chombosan on iStock by Getty Images, 2023 (ii) Dave Cutler, 2015 (iii) Steven. Adobe Stock, 2020 (iv) Biocodex Microbiota Institute, 2017 (v) Anna Bergbauer on www.dreamstime.com, last accessed, 2025.

Images play a crucial role in mediating the relationship between #microbes & humans at the interface of science+society

👀Whiteley Nygaard & Glerup on human agency in the depiction of the relation between #microbiome & #mind: https://doi.org/pzvn

#scienceinculture #scicomm

Photograph of an orange tent and a green tent are set up on the hillside, with four mountains behind them. Photo by the author.

Evaluating health risks is not limited to pathogens, and depends on views of the environment

@RittiSoncco on the construction of Scottish landscapes as beautiful & safe that renders the high prevalence of #lymedisease invisible: https://doi.org/pzvm

#ticks #chronicillness

Close-up photograph of a mosquito on a leaf. By Erik Karits under a free Unsplash license: https://bit.ly/4lraLJ8

How can #EnvironmentalHealth focus on #multispecies connections rather than on pathologizing life forms as threats?

@anthrobite.bsky.social on a #biotechnology project in #Brazil for more convivial co-existence of humans mosquitos & pathogens: https://doi.org/pzvp

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Pathogens are socially & racially coded through the past and present of colonial relations, resulting in uneven configurations of health and blame

Read by Victoria Koski-Karell on the racialization of #cholera’s #pathogenicity in #Haiti: https://doi.org/pzvr

#Fanon #Wynter

Photograph of a gloved hand holding a yellow closed petri dish containing cultures of bacteria. By UK Department for International Development, under a CC BY 2.0 license: https://bit.ly/46EYdJA

Postcolonial ideologies of #development contribute to the reproduction of racialized stereotypes in the biomedical approach to #antimicrobial resistance #hotspots

👀Read by Andrea Butcher on the cases of Bangladesh and Benin: https://doi.org/pzvs

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How can #STS expand the view of #microbes beyond the pathogenic, the human, and toward complex #ecologies?

👀 Read Cañada Sariola, and Rest's introduction of the thematic collection Microbes and STS: https://doi.org/pzvj

#humanmicroberelations #situatedknowledge

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How can #STS expand the view of #microbes beyond the pathogenic, the human, and toward complex #ecologies?

👀 Read Cañada, Sariola, and Rest's introduction of the thematic collection Microbes and STS: https://doi.org/pzvj

#humanmicroberelations #situatedknowledge

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The Editorial for 11.1 reflects on the end of our tenure + the thematic collection on #STS #Situating #Microbes by asking:

Why does it matter to hold a #transnational #OpenAccess space for recording multiple forms of life + life forms in #transformation?

https://doi.org/pzvh

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📢Issue 11.1 out now!

7 articles from a thematic collection on #STS and #Situating #Microbes

+1 editorial reflecting on microbes ++ the transition of editorship through the lens of #transformations

👀https://bit.ly/4m31ese

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Photograph of a fence demarcating the border between two countries. By Mussi Katz, under a free Flickr License: https://www.flickr.com/photos/mussikatz/50758919936/ .

What #interventions can be designed to limit the #datafication of #mobility?

👀#Manifesto by Pelizza @drkiarastorm Olivieri Trauttmansdorff & van Rossem against essentializing + securitizing #alterity through #datafication: https://doi.org/pcgr

#borders #ProcessCitizens

Photograph of a fence demarcating the border between two countries. By Mussi Katz, under a free Flickr License: https://www.flickr.com/photos/mussikatz/50758919936/ .

What #interventions can be designed to limit the #datafication of #mobility?

👀#Manifesto by Pelizza @drkiarastorm Olivieri Trauttmansdorff & van Rossem against essentializing + securitizing #alterity through #datafication: https://doi.org/pcgr

#borders #ProcessCitizens