University of Massachusetts Amherst ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies Faculty Publication Series Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies 2017 Recolonizing India: Troubling the Anticolonial, Decolonial, Postcolonial Banu Subramaniam Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/wost_faculty_pubs CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES Engagements with Decolonization and Decoloniality in and at the Interfaces of STS Curated and Introduced by Kristina Lyons, Juno Parreñas and Noah Tamarkin Kristina Lyons University of California, Santa Cruz
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[email protected] Introduction This 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 Lyons, K.,Parreñas J., and Tamarkin, N. (2017). Engagements with Decolonization and Decoloniality in and at the Interfaces of STS. Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience, issue 3 (1), 1-47 http://www.catalystjournal.org | ISSN: 2380-3312 © Kristina Lyons, Juno Parreñas and Noah Tamarkin, 2017| Licensed to the Catalyst Project under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives license 2 Lyons, Parreñas and Tamarkin Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience 3(1) 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.