Dear Scholars,
Welcome to the STS-IN bibliography of research publications relevant to STS in South Asia managed by the STS-India Network. This bibliography, a work-in-progress, consists of research publications relevant to Science and Technology Studies in South Asia. STS research in South Asia has a long history that dates back (at least) to the early twentieth century and this bibliography project aims to showcase the richness and diversity of this literature. The STS-IN Bibliography is hosted on the independent online open-source bibliographic data management platform Zotero, which allows readers to search, organise and download bibliographic entries according to their specific needs. To learn more about how Zotero works, click here. We strongly recommend you create an account on Zotero for a better user experience.
Before you start exploring the STS-IN Bibliography, please note the following:
This is an ongoing project. While we have made every effort to include relevant publications, it is impossible to include everything. Currently the bibliography represents less than 25% of the estimated literature. Therefore, we encourage all of you to participate in this collaborative project by suggesting missing entries using this Google form. If your work as an STS scholar is missing from the bibliography, please feel free to report it to us.
The criteria we have used in selecting publications for the STS-IN Bibliography are:
a) Works that engage with STS theories, concepts, and methods, and
b) works that directly engage with the South Asian context(s).
All the publications included here strictly adhere to these criteria. That is to say, an author/STS scholar (not necessarily of South Asian origin) is included in the repository only if their work is relevant to STS in South Asia. Science and Technology Studies is broadly defined here as the interdisciplinary field of research that analyses the social (including historical, political, economic and cultural) relations and embeddedness of science and technology.
To access the STS-IN bibliography dataset you can use quick and detailed view options. The quick view, which is appended on this page (scroll down please) provides a list of publications chronologically arranged by year. For detailed view option please visit the Zotero page link here and you will be able to custom search dataset as well as download (sync with your own Zotero library) the entries to your computer using your personal Zotero account.
If you have any queries or concerns, please contact us at stsinconf@gmail.com. We welcome your feedback and suggestions to improve the bibliography.
Thank you!
Best wishes,
STS-IN Bibliography Managing Committee