Essay
EnvironmentPolicy & Governance
What Can this Stinking Dump Yard Tell Us About Technosolutionism?
A grounded reflection on waste, expertise, urban infrastructure, and the limits of technical fixes.
STS-IN Contributor / 1 June 2026 / 10 min read
Current Layer
NEXUS Publication
The editorial/intellectual layer for announcements, essays, fieldnotes, interviews, reviews, and report-backs.
NEXUS27 published pieces
A sharper public desk for Indian STS.
Essays, reports, fieldnotes, reviews, and announcements arranged like a serious magazine front page: readable first, then searchable.
Public STS
Accessible writing that keeps academic seriousness without becoming closed-door scholarship.
Field Reports
Notes from collections, labs, clinics, infrastructures, classrooms, and sites of public debate.
Return Value
Themes, author routes, and citation-friendly pages that make readers come back.
Featured Essay
What Can this Stinking Dump Yard Tell Us About Technosolutionism?
A grounded reflection on waste, expertise, urban infrastructure, and the limits of technical fixes.
STS-IN Contributor / 1 June 2026 / 10 min read
Author Index
People first, then pieces.
STS-IN Contributor
STS India Network
Re-orienting the Lens: A Reflexive Account of Entering STS
NEXUS Editorial Desk
STS India Network
STS India Network Writing Fellowship 2024
NEXUS Fellow
STS India Network Writing Fellowship
On the Surveillance Problem within Surveillance Studies
Digital STS Reading Group
STS India Network
Reflections from the First Meeting of the Digital STS Reading Group
Feminist STS Reading Group
STS India Network
Reflections from the First Meeting of the Feminist STS Reading Group
Winter School Participant
STS-IN Winter School
Reframing Transitions: Entering STS through Ethnographic Engagement with Artisanal Fisheries in Kerala
STS-IN Desk
STS India Network
STS India Network is now on Social Media!
Mahendra Shahare
STS India Network
STS-IN Winter School - Dec 2025
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Theme
27 articles shown
Essay
History of SciencePolicy & Governance
What Kind of Constructivist Are You?
A sharp entry point into constructivism, evidence, interpretation, and STS debates about knowledge.
NEXUS Editorial Desk / 27 May 2026 / 8 min read
Essay
AI & SocietyPolicy & Governance
On the Surveillance Problem within Surveillance Studies
A NEXUS essay on methods, politics, and reflexivity in studying surveillance systems.
NEXUS Fellow / 15 May 2026 / 11 min read
Report-back
AI & SocietyReading Groups
Reflections from the First Meeting of the Digital STS Reading Group
A report-back from the first Digital STS reading group session and its emerging discussion agenda.
Digital STS Reading Group / 3 May 2026 / 6 min read
Report-back
Health & MedicineReading Groups
Reflections from the First Meeting of the Feminist STS Reading Group
Notes from a reading group conversation on feminist STS, care, embodiment, and research practice.
Feminist STS Reading Group / 25 April 2026 / 7 min read
Fieldnote
EnvironmentMethods
Reframing Transitions: Entering STS through Ethnographic Engagement with Artisanal Fisheries in Kerala
A reflexive account of learning STS through fieldwork, ecological transition, and artisanal fishing worlds.
Winter School Participant / 19 March 2026 / 9 min read
Review
History of ScienceTeaching
Book Announcement: Practising Interdisciplinarity
A notice on interdisciplinarity, convergences, contestations, and the institutional practice of STS.
STS-IN Desk / 4 March 2026 / 4 min read
Essay
NEXUSSTS-IN
What is NEXUS?
An editorial note on NEXUS as the publication layer of the STS India Network platform.
NEXUS Editorial Desk / 17 February 2026 / 5 min read
Announcement
TeachingMethods
Winter School Preliminary Schedule
A preliminary programme snapshot that keeps the winter school schedule visible inside the NEXUS archive.
Mahendra Shahare / 24 October 2025 / 2 min read
Announcement
TeachingMethods
STS-IN Winter School - Dec 2025
Call for applications for the STS-IN winter school at IIT Delhi's Sonepat campus, bringing graduate students and early-career researchers into STS methods and debate.
Mahendra Shahare / 16 June 2025 / 11 min read
Review
ConferenceGovernance
STS India Conference: List of Reviewers
A public acknowledgement of the reviewers who helped shape the conference program.
STS-IN Conference Desk / 1 January 2025 / 3 min read
Report-back
ConferenceSTS-IN
Reflections from the First STS India Network Conference
A conference report-back preserving the atmosphere, themes, and afterlife of the first STS-IN conference.
STS-IN Conference Desk / 1 January 2025 / 8 min read
Report-back
EnvironmentReading Groups
Reflections from the Second Energy, Environment, and Climate Reading Group
A second-session report-back on energy, environment, climate, and public scholarship.
Energy, Environment, and Climate Reading Group / 1 January 2025 / 6 min read
Report-back
TeachingMethods
STS-IN Winter School – Dec 2025
A winter school archive entry on methods, concepts, and early-career STS training.
STS-IN Winter School Desk / 1 January 2025 / 6 min read
Report-back
ConferenceSTS-IN
Behind the Scenes: The STS-IN Conference 2025 Review Process
A report on how the conference review process was organized and what it meant for building the network.
STS-IN Conference Desk / 31 December 2024 / 6 min read
Fieldnote
EnvironmentMethods
A Humanities Student Amidst Life Sciences: Integrating Ecology with Climate Change
A fieldnote on moving between humanities training, life sciences, and climate-focused ecological work.
STS-IN Contributor / 31 October 2024 / 7 min read
Essay
History of ScienceMethods
Considering the “S” and “T” in STS: Contemplations from the Field
A reflective essay on what it means to keep the social and the technical in view together.
STS-IN Contributor / 30 September 2024 / 8 min read
Essay
History of ScienceTeaching
Empowering to See the Invisible: Reflections on the Concepts in STS
A concept-led reflection on what STS makes visible and how those concepts travel into teaching and public debate.
STS-IN Contributor / 31 August 2024 / 7 min read
Fieldnote
EnvironmentHealth & Medicine
Framing the Invisible: Methodological Reflections on Studying Air Pollution, Epigenetics, and Environmental Facts in India
A methodological reflection on how environmental facts, bodies, and measurement infrastructures get assembled.
STS-IN Contributor / 31 July 2024 / 9 min read
Fieldnote
EnvironmentPolicy & Governance
From Control to Co-Existence: Agency, Knowledge, and Insect Literacy at the Keet Saksharta Mission
An essay on insect literacy, local knowledge, and the shift from control logics to co-existence.
STS-IN Contributor / 30 June 2024 / 8 min read
Essay
History of SciencePolicy & Governance
Why don’t You Jump out of a Multi-Storey Building to Prove that Gravity is Socially Constructed?
A compact defense of social construction against caricatured criticism.
STS-IN Contributor / 31 May 2024 / 5 min read
Essay
EnvironmentHistory of Science
Redefining Integrative Ecology in the Global South: From Disciplinary Silo to Landscape
An essay on integrative ecology, disciplinary boundaries, and landscape thinking in the Global South.
STS-IN Contributor / 30 April 2024 / 8 min read
Fieldnote
History of ScienceMethods
Re-orienting the Lens: A Reflexive Account of Entering STS
A reflexive fieldnote on learning STS as a way of looking, not just a body of literature.
STS-IN Contributor / 31 March 2024 / 6 min read
Report-back
STS-INWriting
STS India Network Writing Fellowship 2024
A network update on the writing fellowship and the support structure around emerging STS writing.
NEXUS Editorial Desk / 1 January 2024 / 4 min read
Report-back
STS-INConference
Notes and Reflections from the STS-India Network Meetup on Pathways to STS Network Building in South Asia at the EASST-4S Conference Amsterdam 2024
A report-back from the Amsterdam meetup on building STS networks across South Asia.
STS-IN Meetup Desk / 1 January 2024 / 7 min read
Report-back
STS-INConference
STS-IN Roundtable Report at EASST-4S 2024 "Building STS Networks: Motivations, Strategies, Challenges."
A roundtable report on building STS networks, with attention to motivations, strategies, and institutional challenges.
STS-IN Roundtable Desk / 1 January 2024 / 9 min read
Report-back
STS-INCommunity
STS India Network is now on Social Media!
A short network announcement linking social follow channels to the broader participation pathway.
STS-IN Desk / 1 January 2024 / 2 min read