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This book testifies to the progress of critical investigations on how science and technology have been constructed, designed, imagined, and practiced in Latin America. This collection is truly outstanding, not only because the contributors take into consideration the philosophical, historical, sociological, anthropological, and political science dimensions of a little-studied region of the world, but also because they address issues relevant to scholars and readers interested in the phenomenon of science and technology all over the world. And it is no small feat that the literature they use is up-to-date. One issue that certainly appears clear in this publication is that scientific knowledge constructs its “universal” legitimacy depending not only on time, place, and field of study, but also on the agency of individuals, institutions, and nations.
Has Latin America always been passive and derivative in terms of scientific creativity, or has it played a central role in the making of contemporary specialized practices? The answers coming from Latin America show, with increasing emphasis, that science and technology should be understood as an arena contested by a wide variety of individuals, institutions, and actors and through complex local processes of reception, rejection, adaptation, and hybridization. From this perspective, Western science could be understood as a process of polycentric networks, and as a global dynamic interplay in ever-shifting networks.
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