Placing STS in and through Turkey

IF 1 Q3 SOCIAL ISSUES
Aybike Alkan, Duygu Kaşdoğan, Maral Erol
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Abstract

Why and how does it matter to undertake an STS praxis in a country where the field lacks adequate institutional recognition and capacity? This article investigates this question by tracing multiple, fragmented and contingent stories of placing STS in and through Turkey. At first sight, discontinuous stories of STS programs established in universities and unrecognized nature of STS as a discipline by the Council of Higher Education draw attention to the “underdeveloped” nature of the field in this country. This article counters such a perspective by rendering visible the works that support STS ethos as well as loose institutions within which STS is expected to flourish. By following people and artifacts in institutional and more-than institutional places of STS, this article acknowledges the efforts both to translate STS into the particular places of Turkey and to use STS as an intellectual space through which technoscientific knowledge can be questioned and translated into the local contexts of the country. The analysis of these translation efforts reveals that STS can be thought of as a space that enables one to be attuned to the sensibilities and realities of the country and search for ways to democratize the processes of technoscientific knowledge production whether it be in the universities or in public spaces.
在土耳其境内和境内放置STS
在这个领域缺乏足够的机构认可和能力的国家开展STS实践为什么重要以及如何重要?本文通过追踪在土耳其放置STS的多个支离破碎和偶然的故事来调查这个问题。乍一看,在大学建立的STS项目断断续续的故事和高等教育委员会不承认STS作为一门学科的性质,引起了人们对这个国家该领域“不发达”性质的关注。本文通过展示支持STS精神的作品以及期望STS蓬勃发展的松散机构来反对这种观点。本文通过跟踪STS机构和非机构场所的人和文物,承认将STS翻译成土耳其特定场所的努力,并将STS作为一个知识空间,通过这个空间,技术科学知识可以被质疑并翻译成该国的当地背景。对这些翻译工作的分析表明,STS可以被认为是一个空间,使人们能够适应国家的情感和现实,并寻求使技术科学知识生产过程民主化的方法,无论是在大学还是在公共空间。
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