| Title | 1. Introduction. |
|---|---|
| Subtitle | Rethinking technoscientific globalisation with the Global South |
| Contributor | Javed Mohammad Alam (author) |
| Henry Chávez (author) | |
| Ilyass Mahamat Nour Moussa (author) | |
| Koichi Kameda(author) | |
| Cecilia Passanti(author) | |
| Jessica Pourraz(author) | |
| Mathieu Quet(author) | |
| Yves-Marie Rault-Chodankar(author) | |
| Aamod Utpal (author) | |
| Mariana Gameiro (author) | |
| Thibaut Serviant-Fine(author) | |
| Landing page | https://www.matteringpress.org/books/technoscientific-globalisation-from-below |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ |
| Copyright | Javed Mohammad Alam, Henry Chávez, Mahamat Nour Moussa Ilyass, Koichi Kameda, Cecilia Passanti, Jessica Pourraz, Mathieu Quet, Yves-Marie Rault-Chodankar, Aamod Utpal, with Mariana Gameiro and Thibaut Serviant-Fine) |
| Publisher | Mattering Press |
| Published on | 2025-09-08 |
| Page range | pp. 17–54 |
| Print length | 38 pages |
| Language | English (Original) |
Javed Mohammad Alam is a PhD candidate in STS at the Centre Population et Développement (CEPED), Université Paris Cité. He studies the role of digital technologies in the making of contemporary financial inclusion policies in India.
Henry Chávez is an associate researcher at CEPED (Université Paris Cité), the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD) and CTS Lab FLACSO Ecuador. He holds a PhD in social sciences from the École de hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris and has an interdisciplinary background in social sciences, economics, politics, and data science. He has worked as a researcher and consultant in the public and private sectors, as well as in social organisations, NGOs, and international agencies. His work focuses on socioeconomic cycles, techno-economic transformations, social studies of science and technology (STS), big data artificial intelligence, and platform economics.
Ilyass Mahamat Nour Moussa is a PhD candidate in STS at the CEPED, Université Paris Cité. His research focuses on the construction of the Chadian pharmaceutical market in relation to informality.
Koichi Kameda de Figueiredo Carvalho holds a PhD in sociology (EHESS, Paris) and a BA in law (UERJ, Brazil). He is a postdoctoral researcher at the Center Emile Durkheim at the University of Bordeaux and is an associate researcher at the Interdisciplinary Center for Public Health Emergencies (NIESP/Fiocruz, Brazil) and at CEPED/Université Paris Cité. His work focuses on issues related to biomedicine, global health, intellectual property, and pharmaceutical markets and social justice, and he has worked on local manufacturing and regulation of diagnostics and vaccines in the Global South and public health–oriented R&D models.
CecilIa Passanti holds a PhD in science, technology, and society (STS) at Université Paris Cité and is an associate researcher at the Center for Population and Development (CEPED). Her thesis, titled ‘Les infrastructures numériques du vote en Afrique. Biométrie, machines à voter et marchands de démocratie au Kenya et au Sénégal’, is a study of election technologies and biometrics in Africa. Using ethnographic, historical, and sociological methods, she explores new forms of international and industrial govern- ance of public participation and citizenship. She has recently published ‘The (Un)making of Electoral Transparency through Technology: The 2017 Kenyan Presidential Election Controversy’ (Social Studies of Science 2022), and ‘Contesting the Electoral Register during the 2019 Elections in Senegal. Why Allegations of Fraud Did Not End with the Introduction of Biometrics’ (Francia 2021).
Jessica Pourraz holds a PhD in sociology (2019) from the École des hautes etudes en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris. She is a postdoctoral research fellow with Sciences Po Bordeaux and an associate researcher at the Center for Human Sciences (CSH) in Delhi. Her research focuses on issues related to science, biomedicine, the environment, and health, and more particularly on the health effects of air pollution in India and Ghana.
Mathieu Quet, sociologist, is a research director at Institut de recherche pour le développement, Paris, and a member of the Centre Population et Développement (CEPED), Université Paris Cité. His research focuses upon the social aspects of pharmaceutical development in India, and he is more generally interested in observing the globalisation of technological markets from Global South countries. He authored Illicit Medicines in the Global South. Public Health Access and Pharmaceutical Regulation (Routledge 2021).
Yves-Marie Rault-Chodankar is an associate professor at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and an associate researcher at the Pôle de recherche pour l’organisation et la diffusion de l’information géographique (Prodig). His work sits at the intersection of economic geography and development studies, examining how emerging economies integrate into global value chains and drive regional development in the Global South. Through extensive fieldwork in India, Yves-Marie’s ethnographic research captures the lived realities of local entrepreneurs, particularly in the pharmaceutical sector, to show how they adapt and innovate to reshape global production networks from below.
Aamod Utpal is a PhD candidate in STS at the Centre Population et Développement (CEPED), Université Paris Cité. His research focuses on analysing contemporary public health topics using STS approaches. He is currently working on the circulation of a humanitarian technology for severe acute malnutrition – ready-to-use therapeutic food – in India.
Thibaut Serviant-Fine trained as a pharmacist and historian of medicine. He completed a postdoc at the Centre Population et Développement (CEPED) in Paris, researching the pharmaceutical uses of animal life, and subsequently opened a science café.