Wen-yuan Lin and John Law argue in this 2015 article that to highlight practices from East Asia or other locations is possible but problematic because emphasis on locality surfaces histories of area studies and evolutionary narratives.
Wen-yuan Lin and John Law, "We Have Never Been Latecomers!?: Making Knowledge Spaces for East Asian Technosocial Practices", contributed by Maggie Woodruff, STS Infrastructures, Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, last modified 11 June 2018, accessed 26 April 2024. http://www.stsinfrastructures.org/content/we-have-never-been-latecomers-making-knowledge-spaces-east-asian-technosocial-practices
Critical Commentary
Wen-yuan Lin and John Law argue in this 2015 article that to highlight practices from East Asia or other locations is possible but problematic because emphasis on locality surfaces histories of area studies and evolutionary narratives.