For many years, the most high profile work in science and technology studies (STS) did not
theorize the place of power in the scientific field. Scholars were not inclined to explore the …

This essay traces the ontological and political limits of Bruno Latour's conceptualization of
the 'common world'. Latour formulates this concept in explicating how modernist scientific …

In December 1982, Colombian writer Gabriel Garcıa Márquez, author of the now classic
Cien Anos de Soledad (One Hundred Years of Solitude), among many other novels and …

The desperate need for a vast part of the global population to access better medicines in
more certain ways is one of the biggest concerns of the modern era. Pills for the Poorest …

A new word has entered into travel discourse:“poorism.”“Poorism” refers to organized tours
that bring predominantly middle and upper class people to impoverished regions. Programs …

This article takes up Rita Felski's recent call to modernists to explore how Bruno Latour's
latest work on actor-network theory might be adapted for literary studies. It examines two …

Many qualitative and critical qualitative scholars from diverse fields and perspectives have
spent their lives upholding an ethical, or what some would call a moral, stance that would …

So many of us (in the United States, but potentially around the globe) were disappointed and
distressed by the conduct of the 2016 US presidential election. The results dashed our …

This paper is a slightly spruced-up version of a talk delivered at a roundtable cosponsored
by the Society for the History of Technology and the History of Science Society at their …

Poverty tours-actual visits as well as literary and cinematic versions-are characterized as
morally controversial trips and condemned in the press as voyeuristic endeavors. In this …