Nanotechnology, Governance, and Knowledge Networks in the Global South by Marcela Suárez Estrada

Author:Marcela Suárez Estrada
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

If nanotechnology is full of governance (Kaiser et al. 2010), what new agencies are there, and what practices are put in motion? In this chapter, I argue that it is necessary to render visible the performativities, agencies, and their materialities related to nanotechnology and STIP in the Global South. Some authors have already opened a line of discussion in this direction, specifically regarding the impact of nanotechnology in the reconfiguration of STIP (Åm 2011, 2013; Kearnes and Rip 2009), which needs to be deepened, situated, and analyzed in the Global South, particularly in Mexico as the place of constant fluxes of knowledge networks between the Global South and North. The idea is to reflect upon the different dimensions of power embodied in discourses and imaginaries that are incorporated in nanotechnology and how these materialize . This also requires reflection on new ways to discuss incentives commonly associated with governance in STIP. Thus, here, I will focus on the stimuli of STIP, but not as external mechanisms that shape scientists’ actions, but rather on how scientists themselves create stimuli to accomplish certain outcomes. This will require a discussion of the different types of agency and movements from scientists. The objective is thus to decenter the explanation of scientists’ performance as something external by making visible their agency. This, however, is not just one type of agency; it is, in turn, a mix of different actions that are put in motion and combine performative discourses, material practices, and symbolic power.

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