Seabed in the Andes: Exploring “Splace” in Transnational STS

Vivette García-Deister

doi:10.17351/ests2023.2181

Vivette García-Deister

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17351/ests2023.2181

Abstract

This commentary engages with the digital materials of STS in/through Turkey, Kenya, Japan, and Ecuador collected between 2018 and 2019, and with the collection of essays inspired by these materials. I use the notion of “splace” as an exploratory tool that challenges the division between space and place, and I also invite thinking about STS formations with geological formations I encountered on the Chilean Andes.

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