Feminist science and technology studies: A patchwork of moving subjectivities. An interview with Geoffrey Bowker, Sandra Harding, Anne Marie Mol, Susan Leigh Star and Banu Subramaniam

摘要

With multiple voices interrogating, displacing and rethinking subjectivity within feminist science and technology studies (STS), we were intrigued with how to provide space in this special issue to more than just the authors of the articles. Conscious of the limits of this ambition, and of potentially reductionist consequences, we proposed a modest inquiry addressed to this thought collective. We asked a sample of scholars, whose work has contributed in different directions to research on science and technology, to share short statements on the relation between feminism, social studies of science and subjectivity. We proposed a series of open-ended questions to think about feminist contributions to the field of STS. In particular, we inquired about the politics of knowledge that render visible dismissed subjectivities and create new ones in the hope of fostering promising situated knowledges. We ended by looking to the future and asking them to identify issues that feminist approaches in STS need to address further.