Subramaniam, Banu
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Publication Recolonizing India: Troubling the Anticolonial, Decolonial, Postcolonial(2017-01-01) Subramaniam, BanuThis is not a manifesto, nor is it a prescriptive call for a new, decolonial, or decolonized science and technology studies (STS). Instead, our critical perspectives in this issue are propositional offerings. We aim to provoke questions about how science and technology studies might intersect with decolonizing or decolonial practices and scholarship, and what kinds of openings these intersections may or may not provide. We offer these reflections as invitations to think with us and to consider the worlds in which we live and work. They are entries into a conversation that, of course, does not start or end with us, but rather draws upon multiple intellectual genealogies and particular struggles and colonial histories.Publication Cartographies for Feminist STS: Celebrating the Work of Sharon Traweek(2021-01-01) Subramaniam, BanuIn the 2020 Prague Virtual Conference of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Sharon Traweek was awarded the society's John D. Bernal Prize jointly with Langdon Winner. The Bernal Prize is awarded annually to individuals who have made distinguished contributions to the field of STS. Prize recipients include founders of the field of STS, along with outstanding scholars who have devoted their careers to the understanding of social dimensions of science and technology. In this essay responding to Traweek's Bernal lecture, Subramaniam explores Traweek's mentorship in her own work as a feminist STS scholar in biological sciences.Publication Colonial Legacies, Postcolonial Biologies: Gender and the Promises of Biotechnology(2015-01-01) Subramaniam, BanuThree decades of work in the feminist studies of science and technology have shaped our evolving understandings of the relationships between sex, gender, and biotechnology. Sex, and gender are most often reduced to binary categories, severely limiting our conceptions not only of human diversity, but those of science and technology. Using two case study set in India, transnational surrogacy and the Indian Genome Variation Project, this paper explores how popular positions around biotechnology are reduced to binary positions promoting and opposing biotechnology as the solution for the economic and social development of India. By locating surrogacy and genomics within the larger geopolitical, historical, economic and cultural transformations of postcolonial India, the paper argues that both technologies are far more complex in their impact on women and gender. Why does technology become the major site of hope for the future? Why does genomics become the site for the promises of good health? Why has India become a site for reproductive tourism, and transnational surrogacy in particular? Drawing on the social studies of science, the paper argues that technology and human bodies are never neutral but always prefigured with a gender, race, caste and sexuality. Surrogacy and genomics should be understood within these colonial and postcolonial histories of science and technology.Publication Why We need Critical Interdisciplinarity: A Dialogue on Feminist Science Technology Studies, Postcolonial Issues, and EcoDiversity. A Dialogue between Banu Subramaniam and Sigrid Schmitz(2016-01-01) Subramaniam, Banu; Schmitz, SigridThe following dialogue between two biologists and Feminist Science and Technology Studies (STS) scholars, Banu Subramaniam and Sigrid Schmitz, took place on June 16th, 2016 at the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg. Banu Subramaniam gave a talk on “Interdisciplinary Hauntings: The Ghostly Words of Naturecultures.“ Afterwards both researchers discussed the linkages between feminist science studies, postcolonial perspectives, and eco-diversity discourses.Publication The Aliens in Our Midst: Managing Our Ecosystems(2014-01-01) Subramaniam, Banu