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This paper discusses the introduction of fraudulent "molecular detector" (non)technology into Mexico. The case is used to argue that contemporary science and technology studies' approaches to scientific policy-making make basic assumptions about the societies they operate in that are inconsistent with the Mexican context. This paper also argues that contrary to what happens in the so-called Global North, the relative power of Mexican science in government and policy circles is as much limited by its relatively weak position as much as it is by self-censorship and unrealized impact in the country's fragile democracy. The case is also used to highlight the necessity for more politically involved scientific institutions in Mexico, as these become critical safeguards against incoming destabilizing technologies from more powerful nations into the local "peripheral" context.

Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Intercultural Communication and Science and Technology Studies -- Intercultural Models in STS (1): Trading Zones -- Intercultural Models in STS (2): Trust -- Intercultural Models in STS (3): Expertise and Enculturation -- Intercultural Models in STS (4): Boundary Objects -- Book Structure -- Note -- References -- Part I: Interdisciplinary Communication -- Chapter 2: Linking the Subcultures of Physics: Virtual Empiricism and the Bonding Role of Trust -- The Social Gap Between High-Theory and Experiment -- You Need a Busload of Faith to Get By -- Other Conceptual and Technical Barriers to Communication -- Varieties of Trust -- Trust and Social Distance -- A Bundle of Trust: Virtual Empiricism -- Reassessing Trust in STS Using Virtual Empiricism: Two Cases -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3: Mutual Linguistic Socialisation in Interdisciplinary Collaboration -- Introduction -- Paleoclimatology and Paleo-Modelling -- Trade at Work: Collaboration Between Paleoclimatologists and Paleo-Modellers -- Paleo-Modellers and Interactional Expertise in Paleoclimatology -- Paleoclimatologists and Interactional Expertise in Paleo-Modelling -- The Mutual Linguistic Socialisation Process: Formal Courses -- Mutual Linguistic Socialisation: Joint Supervision -- Mutual Linguistic Socialisation in Scientific Events and in Research Projects -- Mutual Linguistic Socialisation: Ambassadors -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4: Science and Policies of Deforestation in the Amazon: Reflecting Ethnographically on Multidisciplinary Collaboration -- Introduction -- Environmental Science and the Amazon -- Doing Ethnography of Science-Policy Interfaces -- Following the Amazalert Project -- Reducing Society into Models

This timely and engaging book addresses communicative issues that arise when science and technology travel across socio-cultural boundaries. The authors discuss interactions between different scientific communities; scientists and policy-makers; science and the public; scientists and artists; and other situations where science clashes with other socio-cultural domains. The volume includes theoretical proposals of how to deal with intercultural communication related to science and technology, as well as rich case studies that illustrate the challenges and strategies deployed in these situations. Individual studies explore Europe, Latin America, and Africa, thus including diverse Global North and South contexts.

"In bringing together a global community of philosophers, Global Epistemologies and Philosophies of Science develops novel perspectives on epistemology and philosophy of science by demonstrating how frameworks from academic philosophy (e.g. standpoint theory, social epistemology, feminist philosophy of science) and related fields (e.g. decolonial studies, transdisciplinarity, global history of science) can contribute to critical engagement with global dimensions of knowledge and science. Global challenges such as climate change, food production, and infectious diseases raise complex questions about scientific knowledge production and its interactions with local knowledge systems and social realities. As academic philosophy provides relatively little reflection on global negotiations of knowledge, many pressing scientific and societal issues remain disconnected from core debates in epistemology and philosophy of science. This book is an invitation to broaden agendas of academic philosophy by presenting epistemology and philosophy of science as globally engaged fields that address heterogeneous forms of knowledge production and their interactions with local livelihoods, practices, and worldviews. This integrative ambition makes the book equally relevant for philosophers and interdisciplinary scholars who are concerned with methodological and political challenges at the intersection of science and society"--