Commentary on Four Tapuya Papers on Environmentalism in Latin America:The EASTS Perspective

Abstract

Since 2018, EASTS has beenworking with our sister journal Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society. The collaborations include a set of response papers from Tapuya that reflect on provincializing STS, a theoretical call by John Law and Wen-yuan Lin on the making of non-Western STS scholarship (EASTS 11.2). When EASTS started working with Routledge in 2021, the collaboration with Tapuya (also a Routledge journal) intensified. Despite the Covid pandemic, EASTS has arranged for our associate editor Wen-Ling Tu to write us a commentary, in return, on four Tapuya papers about environmentalism in Latin America. Currently Dean of the International College of Innovation and Director of the Center for Innovative Democracy and Governance at National Chengchi University, Taiwan, Professor Tu is not only an expert on this topic; she is also an active member of the global STS community. We are grateful to Professor Tu for her intellectual efforts in engaging with these inspiring works from the other side of the globe on behalf of EASTS, and we look forward to more exciting collaborations in the future. — EASTS Editorial Office