Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society
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I. Basic Journal Info

Country

United States

Journal ISSN: 25729861

Publisher: Routledge

History: 2018-2021

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Tapuya Latin American Science Technology and Society is an international open access journal seeking to enable a network of STSinformed conversations within Latin America between Latin America and EuroAmerican cultures and across global peripheries. It seeks to increase the complexity of the STS scholarly landscape by pushing conventional STS boundaries to include issues perspectives and methods relevant to Latin America. Tapuya thus intends to contribute to earlier efforts to parochialize EuroAmerican STS and thus truly internationalize STS through the journals attention to distinctively Latin American critical discussions and productive tensions both scholarly and political.Tapuya seeks to explore not only the diversity and richness of Latin American STS issues perspectives and research methods and evidence of the many creative flows of influence that exist between Latin America EuroAmerican cultures and other peripheries but also resources for STS periphery studies.The journals title Tapuya derives from the Quechua word tapuy which means to question and more broadly refers to knowledgemaking as a questioning process. Tapuy is also a word that names the nonnative way that the 16th Century colonizers spoke Quechua. Finally todays anticolonial theorists have called on the purported identity of this group as cannibals to articulate their own practice of swallowing Northern practices and transforming them into something distinctively Latin American. Tapuya therefore has relevance as a title on a number of levels.