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Wellesley College
2025
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research
1983-2024
National Institute of Science Communication and Information Resources
2024
University of Massachusetts Amherst
2010-2023
University of Freiburg
2016
Feminist Center for Studies and Advisory Services
2016
University of Arizona
1999-2006
Amherst College
2003
Duke University
2000
Research Article| September 01 2001 The Aliens Have Landed!: Reflections on the Rhetoric of Biological Invasions Banu Subramaniam banu subramaniam is an Assistant Professor with Department Women's Studies at University Massachusetts, Amherst. Her work seeks to engage feminist and cultural studies science in experimental practice science. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Meridians (2001) 2 (1): 26–40. https://doi.org/10.1215/15366936-2.1.26 Cite Icon Share Facebook...
This essay de-centers the human for a more ecological perspective. Drawing on Haraway’s “naturecultures” and Deleuze Guattari’s “assemblages,” authors collaborate across humanities sciences to rethink Asian/America as multispecies, naturecultural, transnational phenomenon. After offering theoretical foundation, connects Asian/American Studies issues in biological sciences, discusses how Said’s theory of Orientalism resonates multispecies paradigm – specifically, nativism xenophobia “invasion...
This special issue explores intersections of feminism, postcolonialism, and technoscience. The papers emerged out a 2014 research seminar on Feminist Postcolonial Science Technology Studies (STS) at the Institute for Research Women Gender, University Michigan. Through innovative engagement with rich empirical cases theoretical trends in postcolonial theory, feminist STS, trace local global circulations They illuminate ways which science technology are imbricated circuits state power...
Synopsis How did plant sexuality come to so hauntingly resemble human sexual formations? biology theorize with binary formulations of male/female, sex/gender, sperm/egg, active males and passive females—all which western categories sex, gender, sexuality? Tracing the extant language sex in reproductive biology, we examine histories science explore how emerged historically from formations colonial racial politics evolutionary was premised on imaginations racialized heterosexual romance....
"Moored Metamorphoses" presents a retrospective on the development of feminist science studies as well reflections current configurations and future possibilities field. I argue that field began primarily with women scientists who made strong critique cultural professional practices developed foundational body work, critiques science. These argued for an understanding socially, culturally, politically embedded set practices.The science, which later came to ground studies, took science's...
Introduction to Part 1- Feminism's Sciences
This is a commentary on 'Virtual diversity: Resolving the tension between wider culture and institution of science', by Harry Collins, Robert Evans, Luis Reyes-Galindo.
AbstractSystems of oppression-racism, colonialism, misogyny, cissexism, ableism, heteronormativity, and more-have long shaped the content practice science. But opportunities to reckon with these influences are rarely found within academic science, even though such critiques well developed in social sciences humanities. In this special section, we attempt bring cross-disciplinary conversations among ecology, evolution, behavior, genetics on one hand critical perspectives from humanities other...
Abstract.— The common morning glory, Ipomoea purpurea, exhibits a flower color polymorphism at the W locus throughout southeastern North America. controls whether flowers will be darkly pigmented (WW), lightly (Ww), or white with rays (ww). In this report, we describe results of perturbation, convergence, experiment using five plots designed to determine balancing selection operates on locus. pattern gene frequency changes obtained are indicative operating locus, providing direct evidence...
Research Article| September 01 2000 Archaic Modernities: SCIENCE, SECULARISM, AND RELIGION IN MODERN INDIA Banu Subramaniam Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Social Text (2000) 18 (3 (64)): 67–86. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-18-3_64-67 Cite Icon Share Facebook Twitter Email Permissions Citation Subramaniam; INDIA. 1 2000; doi: Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search nav input auto...
What are the implications of misunderstanding sex as a binary, and why is it essential for scientists to incorporate more expansive view biological in our teaching research? This roundtable will include many symposium speakers, including biologists intersex advocates, discuss these topics visibilize link between ongoing reification dyadic within scientific communities social, political, medical oppression faced by queer, transgender, especially communities. As with whole, this conversation...
Curated and Introduced by Kristina Lyons, Juno Parreñas Noah Tamarkin
In the 2020 Prague Virtual Conference of Society for Social Studies Science (4S), Sharon Traweek was awarded society’s John D. Bernal Prize jointly with Langdon Winner. The is annually to individuals who have made distinguished contributions field STS. recipients include founders STS, along outstanding scholars devoted their careers understanding social dimensions science and technology. this essay responding Traweek's lecture, Subramaniam explores Traweek’s mentorship in her own work as a...
This paper will examine feminist pedagogy, and relate it to the teaching learning of chemistry. More correctly, one should refer pedagogies, as this scholarship is evolving a topic for continual debate. Such approaches can benefit all students, not just women.
Labor has been and continues to be an indispensable category of analysis for radical scholars, as evidenced by the proliferation new terms—“affective” labor, “immaterial” “digital” so forth—developed describe asymmetrical relations capital labor in across contemporary settings. This essay traces recent advent concept “biological” or “clinical” exploring (a) utility historians (b) perspectives from history studies “biocapital” found science technology (STS). Placing STS conversation (without...
This article posits Feminist Science and Technology Studies (FSTS) as a vital tool for bridging postcolonial decolonial thought. First, FSTS forms bridge by providing tools reading epistemic imperialism scientific racism shared conditions of possibility disparate colonizations. Second, foregrounding the necessary links between material violence, helps undo theory/praxis binary that sometimes undergirds their analytic opposition. The authors argue careful study science set ideas, practices,...
In this article, we track the emergence of a new autistic subject, one that is socially inept yet brilliant, earnest charming, obsessive humorous, arrogant vulnerable, and unquestionably worthy our attention. contrast to historic definition autist as lacking capacity for love, subject enabled inflected by gendered construction autism spectrum disorder (ASD) holds promise being potentially productive even (desirably) reproductive. Through an analysis current trends in science (extreme male...