Paper short abstract:

By means of a double movement of experimenting with sound language through the Mundaréu podcast, and reflecting on issues linked to feminism and multimodality, I present a mapping of research on S&T feminist anthropology in Latin America, their methodological challenges and research agendas.

Paper long abstract:

The expertise of the Social Sciences has been challenged in new ways. Its communication strategies and experimentation with other languages, inter/transmediality, as a practice and as a subject for reflection, can contribute to meeting these new challenges. In this paper, I present results of the research "A world of stories: feminist anthropology of science and technology in Latin America" (Fapesp, 2022/05943-0), which is dedicated to a double movement of experimenting with sound language through the Mundaréu podcast, and reflecting on issues linked to feminism and multimodality.

The research questions involve: How do we communicate results, dispute meanings, talk about the research done in Latin America with a wider audience than the scientific one? How do we exploit the transmediality of sound, text and image through podcasts? How is the feminist perspective negotiated in the context of research? What are the impacts of directly hearing the voices, emotions and silences of the feminist scholars themselves? To what extent does scientific/technological development meet collective, popular and local priorities, connected to politically situated perspectives?

Our research team has mapped out research in the field of the anthropology of science and technology produced in Brazil, Colombia and Argentina, with anti-racist, intersectional and decolonial feminist perspectives. I will present the main themes and research agendas we found in the survey carried out throughout 2023, as well as the methodological challenges produced in the encounter between these researches(ers) and our communicative approach in disseminating them through the Mundaréu podcast.