Inverting STS Open Syllabus

What is an inverted syllabus?

Please help us create a shared resource for engaging inversions of thinking and practice within scholarship surrounding global science and technology, its histories, social practices, inequalities, practices, and alignments with in/justice. We observe that the intellectual cannon has privileged scholars writing in/of the Global North, naturalizing its perspectives and concerns. Recognizing the work of scholars writing in other languages, formats, spaces, and geographies requires works of inversion, spaces of labor and care, and collective reimaginings. Through this annotated bibliography and open syllabus, we do this work to collect, invite, and reconceptualize by privileging these authors and modes of authorship/ This project emerges from the STS borderlands laboratory at ASU and its initial structure emerges out of the pre/occupations of the scholars involved in this collective knowledge space. As such we speak well to certain languages and geographies and less-well to others. We invite you to join us, adding your expertise, experience, knowledge, and practice to these works of inversion.

Inverted Syllabus - Global & Decolonial Science & Technology