EASST Review: Volume 32 (4) December 2013

Mattering Press: New forms of care for STS books

Mattering Press: New forms of care for STS books by Sebastian Abrahamsson, Uli Beisel, Endre Dányi, Joe Deville, Julien McHardy, and Michaela Spencer Mattering Press is a new book publishing initiative committed to the creation and publishing of widely accessible, carefully produced, and intellectually vibrant books in Science and Technology Studies (STS). Our first books are due to be published in 2014. In September of this year we had the opportunity to introduce the press at a reception held at the annual conference of the Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change (CRESC) in London. In announcing the press in this

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“What if we don’t buy it?”

“What if we don’t buy it? Unmaking and Remaking Common Worlds” Report on the Third Meeting of the Spanish STS Network 19-21 June 2013 (Barcelona) Pablo Santoro (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) The 3rd Meeting of the Spanish STS Network (esCTS), under the title of “What if we don’t buy it? Unmaking and Remaking Common Worlds”, took place on 19-21 June 2013 in Barcelona. For the third consecutive year, a varied group of researchers interested in STS (regardless of disciplinary affiliation or academic position) responded to the open call of the Network and gathered for three days of presentations, debates and

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On the Geographies of STS

On the Geographies of STS A Brief Introduction. Editorial by Ann Rudinow Saetnan One day of EASST’s most recent council meeting was devoted to the various national and regional STS networks around Europe. Eleven (11) national and regional networks were represented, in one way or another. Some had sent representatives, some were present in that one or more members happened to also be members of council. Still, eleven is not the complete set of such networks around Europe. The main part of that day’s meeting was a presentation round, first introducing each network in terms of its size, functions, structure

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