{"id":3473,"date":"2025-08-01T21:45:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T01:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/?p=3473"},"modified":"2025-08-01T21:46:29","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T01:46:29","slug":"the-field-talks-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/2025\/the-field-talks-back\/","title":{"rendered":"The field talks back"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        The field talks back\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p>Merlyna Lim wrote 4S BackChannel about &#8220;post-publication listening&#8221; reflecting on the book tour in Southeast Asia, on her latest book Social Media and Politics in Southeast Asia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She wrote:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;In science and technology studies (STS), we speak often about&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/jeffreyfossett.com\/2021\/09\/21\/notes-on-coproduction.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">co-production<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.2307\/3178066\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">situated knowledge<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/epistemicjusticeiarslce2018.wordpress.com\/a-brief-guide-to-epistemic-injustice-justice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">epistemic justice<\/a>. And yet, so many of our scholarly life cycles begin and end in the Global North. We study \u201cthe field,\u201d publish in Western journals, chase citations, present at European conferences, and then move on to the next project. But what does it mean to write about a place\u2014and never return to listen?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/4sonline.org\/news_manager.php?page=40816\">Click to read more<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/4sonline.org\/news_manager.php?page=40816\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"663\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-07-28-at-8.09.07-PM-1024x663.png\" alt=\"A screenshot of the post saying: The field talks back: listening to Southeast Asia after the book\" class=\"wp-image-3475\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-07-28-at-8.09.07-PM-1024x663.png 1024w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-07-28-at-8.09.07-PM-320x207.png 320w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-07-28-at-8.09.07-PM-512x331.png 512w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-07-28-at-8.09.07-PM-768x497.png 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-07-28-at-8.09.07-PM-1536x994.png 1536w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-07-28-at-8.09.07-PM-2048x1326.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Merlyna Lim wrote 4S BackChannel about &#8220;post-publication listening&#8221; reflecting on the book tour in Southeast Asia, on her latest book Social Media and Politics in Southeast Asia. She wrote: &#8220;In science and technology studies (STS), we speak often about&nbsp;co-production,&nbsp;situated knowledge,&nbsp;epistemic justice. And yet, so many of our scholarly life cycles begin and end in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":333,"featured_media":3475,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"mobile"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/333"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3473"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3477,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3473\/revisions\/3477"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}