Chakana and Thirdspace: Engaging Ecuadorian STS in Places of Knowledge Co-Production

IF 1 Q3 SOCIAL ISSUES
María Belén Albornoz
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Ecuadorian STS studies connects to earlier Latin American scholars’ concerns over science and technology. Like many other academic communities, Ecuadorian STS emerged from the collision of scholarly interest, the building of new research centers, and opportunities for collaboration among undergraduate and postgraduate programs. Primarily rooted in the need to develop social technologies these studies form part of a regional movement aimed at questioning: technological dependence, the role of science in peripheral contexts, and public policies of science, technology, and innovation. The ways in which an STS academic community forms around Ecuadorian STS—is in this case, less about a network than—a matter concerning Henri LeFebvre’s “trialectics of spatiality” ([1974] 1991). In particular, Homi Bhabba (1994) and Edward Soja’s (1996) contributions to the decolonial development of a “thirdspace” is understood as a “particular way of thinking about and interpreting socially produced space” (ibid.). This essay offers a reflection on identity (re-)formation in the making of community. Developing a thirdspace as a transformative process draws inspiration from the Chakana, an Andean symbol of wisdom. A specifically decolonial thirdspace unfolds through the three ascending–descending steps of the Chakana that represent both the expansion and the sustaining of the community: 1. as an Andean referencing point (evoking the bridging-staircase symbol); 2. which allows for the co-creation of situated knowledge from different transnational STS genealogies located in Latin America; 3. and as an obligatory point of passage for STS community creation through identity building. Conceptualizing Ecuadorian STS as a thirdspace, helps to socially comprehend community formation as a social process that is also a critique of symbolic space for membership and knowledge production. By discussing why place is fundamental in community institutionalization, this essay creates possibilities to comprehend—dimensions of STS in the Global South—socially, politically, and cognitively.
Chakana和第三空间:厄瓜多尔STS在知识合作生产领域的参与
厄瓜多尔的STS研究与早期拉丁美洲学者对科学技术的关注有关。像许多其他学术团体一样,厄瓜多尔STS从学术兴趣的碰撞、新研究中心的建设以及本科和研究生课程之间的合作机会中脱颖而出。这些研究主要植根于发展社会技术的需要,构成了旨在质疑:技术依赖、科学在外围环境中的作用以及科学、技术和创新的公共政策的区域运动的一部分。围绕厄瓜多尔STS形成STS学术社区的方式——在这种情况下,与其说是一个网络,不如说是一个与亨利·勒斐伏尔(Henri LeFebvre)的“空间性试验”([1974]1991)有关的问题。特别是,Homi Bhabba(1994)和Edward Soja(1996)对“第三空间”的非殖民化发展的贡献被理解为“思考和解释社会生产空间的特殊方式”(同上)。本文对社区建构过程中的身份(重构)问题进行了反思。开发第三个空间作为一个转变的过程,从安第斯智慧的象征查卡纳(Chakana)中汲取灵感。一个特别的非殖民化的第三空间通过Chakana的三个上升-下降台阶展开,代表了社区的扩展和维持:作为安第斯山脉的参照点(唤起了桥梁楼梯的象征);2. 它允许共同创造来自拉丁美洲不同跨国STS谱系的定位知识;3.并作为通过建立身份来创造STS社区的必经之路。将厄瓜多尔STS概念化为第三空间,有助于从社会角度理解社区形成是一个社会过程,也是对成员资格和知识生产的象征性空间的批判。通过讨论为什么地方是社区制度化的基础,本文创造了在社会、政治和认知上理解全球南方STS的维度的可能性。
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