1990s in the World and in Turkey
The following developments highlighted below shed light on the external conditions affecting the establishment of TEKPOL through the end of the 1990s:
METU TEKPOL Archive
Duygu Kaşdoğan, "TEKPOL: Conditions", contributed by Duygu Kasdogan, STS Infrastructures, Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, last modified 29 March 2022, accessed 20 May 2022. http://www.stsinfrastructures.org/content/tekpol-conditions
Critical Commentary
The artifact responds to the question of external conditions that influenced the institutionalization of STS in Turkey. It shows the importance of the economic development paradigm in this process.