Seminar
Epistemic decentralizing: do we need more players to change the game?
- Leandro Rodriguez Medina
- Date
- Friday 27 June 2025
- Time
- Series
- CWTS Research Seminars
- Location
- Online only
About the seminar
While epistemic decentering refers to the gradual critical opening of disciplinary canons and academic fields, the notion of epistemic decentralization explored in this presentation focuses on the incorporation of a broader and more diverse range of participants—recognized as full epistemic subjects—into expansive networks of knowledge production, a process that also entails novel practices and technologies. Drawing on the analytical framework proposed in Decentralizing Knowledges: Essays in Distributed Agency (Duke University Press, 2025), this presentation outlines the relationship between these two dynamics—decentering and decentralization—as well as the implications of a profound opening toward the epistemic practices of marginal or peripheral actors.
About the presenter
Leandro Rodriguez Medina is Professor of Sociology in the Dep. of Sociology at Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Azcapotzalco (Mexico); member of the National System of Researchers (Mexico); founder Editor-in-chief of the journal Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society, and Associate Editor of the journal Social Studies of Science.