Pablo Kreimer
Biographic Data
| ID | 299022 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pablo Kreimer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pablo |
| FAMILY NAME | Kreimer |
| SIGNATURE | KREIMER P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6737-8556 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 52 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 36 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Between knowledge and politics. Negotiating and objectifying standards and measures in Latin America
1. The relationship between the production and use of scientific knowledge in Latin America has been debated for a long time. The focus has implicitly or naturally been on uses related to developin...
Aliens, Scientific Methods and Risks. Health Care Professionals Opposed to Vaccination Against Covid-19 in Argentina
We analyze the ways in which different researchers and health professionals in Argentina (physicians, biochemists, epidemiologists) develop their arguments against mass vaccination against COVID-19. In particular, we explore how these positions are related to the mobilization of scientific knowledge-or arguments compatible with scientific reasoning-and to issues related to other interests (professional, political, economic, among others). Our aim…
Martin W. Bauer
STS Between Centers and Peripheries
In the context of increasing internationalization of the science and technology studies (STS) field, and reflections on post-coloniality and provincialization of STS, we examine to what extent a set of twelve leading journals of the field have published papers from different regions worldwide. In this exploratory work, based on information retrieved from the Web of Science for the period 2010–2019, we often use Latin America as an example, but re…
Constructivist Paradoxes Part 2
There is a certain ‘failure’ in what we could call the modern development of the STS field over the past decade, i.e. a large number of studies—particularly empirical—that were deployed from the 1970s onwards. Indeed, one of their original and crucial objectives was to emphasize the local, situated, contingent character of the processes of production and negotiation of knowledge. However, these studies mostly concentrate on one part of the world,…
Constructivist Paradoxes Part 1
There is a certain ‘failure’ in what we could call the modern development of the STS field over the past decade, i.e. a large number of studies—particularly empirical—that were deployed from the 1970s onwards. Indeed, one of their original and crucial objectives was to emphasize the local, situated, contingent character of the processes of production and negotiation of knowledge. However, these studies mostly concentrate on one part of the world,…
Techno-Scientific Promises, Disciplinary Fields, and Social Issues in Peripheral Contexts
Scientific work has always worked alongside promises of future developments. Promises, though, have very different consequences across different contexts. Indeed, the formulation of scientific promises in peripheral scientific contexts have different structures and consequences, compared to those in hegemonic sites. Promises are intended to provide solutions to important public problems. Yet in doing so, a scientific field or specialty is positio…
Prometo, luego existo
El objeto de este artículo es reflexionar en torno a las dimensiones conceptuales y los dispositivos que se ponen en marcha en la estructura de las promesas tecnocientíficas en contextos de sociedades periféricas. Para ello, el autor considera el caso de la enfermedad de Chagas a lo largo de un siglo, analizando el modo de construcción original de la cuestión a comienzos del siglo XX, y luego su formulación más moderna a comienzos del siglo XXI: …
Chagas Disease across Contexts
Chagas is the most important endemic disease in Latin America. It was progressively constructed as a relevant public issue, starting as a medical problem, focusing later on housing conditions, poverty, or vector agents. In recent decades, research has mainly focused on the parasite's biological characterization. In the meanwhile, both Chagas disease and knowledge about it spread out geographically. We analyze the worldwide scientific production o…
Migrants, parasites et exploitation minière
Les régions périphériques de la science, telles que les pays d'Amérique latine, ont souvent entretenu des relations complexes avec les centres d'expertise scientifique et technique. Dans ces régions, on espère que les connaissances scientifiques contribuent à la résolution de problèmes publics, alors que, dans le même temps, elles doivent satisfaire aux exigences des domaines et institutions de recherche dominants situés dans les centres hégémoni…
Who’s afraid of Ebola? Epidemic fires and locative fears in the Information Age
Epidemics have traditionally been viewed as the widespread occurrence of infectious disease within a community, or a sudden increase above what is typical. But modern epidemics are both more and less than the diffusion of viral entities. We argue that epidemics are 'fire objects', using a term coined by Law and Singleton: They generate locative fears through encounters that focus attention on entities that are unknown or imprecisely known, transf…
Science and Society in Latin America
Controversies on the Periphery
Scientific co-operation and centre-periphery relations
This article approaches the issue of the so-called North-South scientific cooperation to understand why European research consortia incorporate research groups from Latin America (LA). This boils down to three questions: (a) at the political and institutional level, what is the European Union’s interest in developing co-operation with Latin America? (b) at the level of cognitive strategies, what are the European projects leaders’ motivations to e…
International Ties at Peripheral Sites
In recent decades, scientific knowledge has been increasingly expected to contribute to the resolution of public and controversial issues in Latin America. However, in peripheral sites of knowledge and economic production, the dynamics of both science and society have been complicated by tensions between the demands of local stakeholders and the ties with the global centers of technical and scientific expertise. First, local public issues are oft…
Cosmopolitismo o subordinación? La participación de científicos latinoamericanos en programas europeos
Partiendo de un enfoque cualitativo, pretendemos dar cuenta de las motivaciones de grupos científicos y sus dinámicas de cooperación internacional. Consideramos la participación de científicos latinoamericanos en consorcios europeos y analizamos el punto de vista de los líderes europeos. Dentro de la cooperación científica “Norte-Sur”, planteamos tres niveles de análisis: a nivel institucional, comprender el interés de Europa en cooperar con Lati…
Latin American science, technology, and society
The paper deals with the emergence and development the STS field in Latin America, from the sixties on. After an introductory section containing some considerations on the maturation of and approaches to STS in the region, the paper delves into cognitive, institutional, political and social dimensions of the development of this field. It gives then some background, mentioning policies as drivers of knowledge generation, the institutionalization o…
Knowledge Production, Mobilization and Standardization in Chile’s HidroAysén Case
Un amor no correspondido
La relación entre las ciencias sociales y los estudios sociales de ciencia y tecnología (CTS) dista de ser simple. Mientras que para algunos aún es un objeto de disputa la inclusión de los estudios CTS dentro de la amplia avenida de las ciencias sociales, otros han intentado interesar, seducir o discutir con los colegas de otras disciplinas del campo, para tender puentes entre ambos espacios disciplinarios. No obstante, hasta hoy la mayor parte d…
An Unrequited Love
The relation between STS and the social sciences is far from simple. While including STS in the field of social sciences is an object of dispute for certain researchers, others have tried to involve, seduce, or debate with colleagues in other subfields to establish bridges across these two disciplinary fields. The majority of social sciences researchers however know very little about current developments in STS and some question or even attack it…
Un amour non partagé
Les relations entre sciences sociales et études sociales des sciences et technologies (STS) sont fort complexes. Alors que, pour certains auteurs, l'inclusion des STS dans les sciences sociales est objet de disputes, d'autres ont tenté d'intéresser, séduire ou échanger avec les collègues des autres disciplines du champ pour établir des ponts entre les deux espaces disciplinaires. Cependant, aujourd'hui encore, la majorité des chercheurs en scienc…
Sociologie des sciences
Sociologie et démocratie ? Un panorama de la discipline en Argentine entre 1983 et 2007
Est-il possible de mettre en rapport les changements sociaux et les productions des sciences sociales ? Il est difficile de répondre à cette question puisqu’elle s’appuie sur un présupposé : la production sociologique impliquerait une forme de « réceptivité » du social qui la déterminerait (ou qui, tout au moins, aurait une forte influence sur elle), au-delà des dynamiques propres au champ académique lui-même. Or, il est fréquent de dire – et cet…
Sergio Morresi et Gabriel Vommaro (dir.), Saber lo que se hace. Expertos y política en Argentina
Saber lo que se hace. Expertos y política en Argentina part de la constatation que, dans le cadre des reformes sociales amorcées en Argentine et en Amérique latine au cours des années 1970 et consolidées au cours des années 1990, il y a eu des économistes, des politologues, des sociologues, des avocats et d’autres professionnels qui ont activement participé à la constitution de domaines d’expertise en économie, en études liées à la corruption, en…
La science en débat en Amérique latine
Entre la fin des années 1960 et le début des années 1970 un large courant critique sur le rôle des sciences et des technologies apparaît à travers le monde. De même, en Argentine, ce mouvement s'est traduit dès 1968 et 1969 par la création d'espaces institutionnels pour le débat et la production des connaissances sur les sciences et les technologies. La confrontation d'idées a mis en évidence un processus de politisation de la science qui entraîn…
Latin American science, technology, and society
The paper deals with the emergence and development the STS field in Latin America, from the sixties on. After an introductory section containing some considerations on the maturation of and approaches to STS in the region, the paper delves into cognitive, institutional, political and social dimensions of the development of this field. It gives then some background, mentioning policies as drivers of knowledge generation, the institutionalization o…
Quelle connaissance et pour qui
Le présent article tente de comprendre les relations complexes qui existent entre l'émergence et la persistance de problèmes sociaux et le développement de connaissances scientifiques concernant ces problèmes. Nous présentons les réflexions et les données issues d'une recherche portant sur l'émergence de la maladie de Chagas en tant que problème social pertinent et sur les stratégies de production de connaissances pour aborder et résoudre ce prob…
International Ties at Peripheral Sites
In recent decades, scientific knowledge has been increasingly expected to contribute to the resolution of public and controversial issues in Latin America. However, in peripheral sites of knowledge and economic production, the dynamics of both science and society have been complicated by tensions between the demands of local stakeholders and the ties with the global centers of technical and scientific expertise. First, local public issues are oft…
Knowledge Production, Mobilization and Standardization in Chile’s HidroAysén Case
Techno-Scientific Promises, Disciplinary Fields, and Social Issues in Peripheral Contexts
Scientific work has always worked alongside promises of future developments. Promises, though, have very different consequences across different contexts. Indeed, the formulation of scientific promises in peripheral scientific contexts have different structures and consequences, compared to those in hegemonic sites. Promises are intended to provide solutions to important public problems. Yet in doing so, a scientific field or specialty is positio…
Who’s afraid of Ebola? Epidemic fires and locative fears in the Information Age
Epidemics have traditionally been viewed as the widespread occurrence of infectious disease within a community, or a sudden increase above what is typical. But modern epidemics are both more and less than the diffusion of viral entities. We argue that epidemics are 'fire objects', using a term coined by Law and Singleton: They generate locative fears through encounters that focus attention on entities that are unknown or imprecisely known, transf…
An Unrequited Love
The relation between STS and the social sciences is far from simple. While including STS in the field of social sciences is an object of dispute for certain researchers, others have tried to involve, seduce, or debate with colleagues in other subfields to establish bridges across these two disciplinary fields. The majority of social sciences researchers however know very little about current developments in STS and some question or even attack it…
Internacionalização e tensões da ciência latino-americana
Prometo, luego existo
El objeto de este artículo es reflexionar en torno a las dimensiones conceptuales y los dispositivos que se ponen en marcha en la estructura de las promesas tecnocientíficas en contextos de sociedades periféricas. Para ello, el autor considera el caso de la enfermedad de Chagas a lo largo de un siglo, analizando el modo de construcción original de la cuestión a comienzos del siglo XX, y luego su formulación más moderna a comienzos del siglo XXI: …
Chagas Disease across Contexts
Chagas is the most important endemic disease in Latin America. It was progressively constructed as a relevant public issue, starting as a medical problem, focusing later on housing conditions, poverty, or vector agents. In recent decades, research has mainly focused on the parasite's biological characterization. In the meanwhile, both Chagas disease and knowledge about it spread out geographically. We analyze the worldwide scientific production o…
Un amour non partagé
Les relations entre sciences sociales et études sociales des sciences et technologies (STS) sont fort complexes. Alors que, pour certains auteurs, l'inclusion des STS dans les sciences sociales est objet de disputes, d'autres ont tenté d'intéresser, séduire ou échanger avec les collègues des autres disciplines du champ pour établir des ponts entre les deux espaces disciplinaires. Cependant, aujourd'hui encore, la majorité des chercheurs en scienc…
La science en débat en Amérique latine
Entre la fin des années 1960 et le début des années 1970 un large courant critique sur le rôle des sciences et des technologies apparaît à travers le monde. De même, en Argentine, ce mouvement s'est traduit dès 1968 et 1969 par la création d'espaces institutionnels pour le débat et la production des connaissances sur les sciences et les technologies. La confrontation d'idées a mis en évidence un processus de politisation de la science qui entraîn…
Science and Politics in Latin America
The aim of this paper is to analyse the development of science policy in Argentina, from its emergence almost four decades ago to its challenges in the current context. In contrast to the functional kind of analysis that has been usual in Latin America for a long time, the attempt is to develop a theoretical framework based on the relation ships among the most significant actors (the state, the scientific community, the university, and the busine…
Migration of Scientists and the Building of a Laboratory in Argentina
The objective was to demonstrate how, as witnessed in the particular case of one molecular biology laboratory in Buenos Aires, different types of scientific migration emerged, such that they were responsible for the very constitution of this laboratory. To this end, a brief description of the historical background of the scientific community in Argentina, its political-institutional context, and the successive migrational periods which have been …
Rowing Against the Tide
Molecular biology began its eventful career in Argentina with the creation at the Malbrán National Institute for Microbiology of the first specially designed laboratories in 195 7. This was extremely early since the discipline was still in its international infancy and there were only a handful of groups worldwide working on topics that could be labelled as 'molecular biology From a latter-day perspective, molecular biology in Argentina is a part…
Pioneers and Victims
Chagas Disease in Argentina
This article intends to study the possibilities and limitations of scientific knowledge as a factor of social development in peripheral societies. We challenge the idea that the only promotion of scientific knowledge is a legitimate and adequate method to overcome the social problems that many people in Latin America are subjected to. Instead, we propose to investigate the relationships among the social actors involved in the production and circu…
Social Studies of Science and Technology in Latin America
Sociologie et démocratie ? Un panorama de la discipline en Argentine entre 1983 et 2007
Les auteurs s’attachent à montrer les liens entre les changements sociaux et la production sociologique en Argentine. Ils analysent la phase de démocratie qui a succédé à l’autoritarisme et le passage d’une sociologie de la domination, portée par la figure des intellectuels, à une sociologie de l’expérience analysant quantitativement et qualitativement les effets de fragmentation d’une société post-néolibérale
Quelle connaissance et pour qui
Le présent article tente de comprendre les relations complexes qui existent entre l'émergence et la persistance de problèmes sociaux et le développement de connaissances scientifiques concernant ces problèmes. Nous présentons les réflexions et les données issues d'une recherche portant sur l'émergence de la maladie de Chagas en tant que problème social pertinent et sur les stratégies de production de connaissances pour aborder et résoudre ce prob…
La recherche en Argentine
This paper aims to explain an emerging tendency, called « new international division of scientific work ». The first part presents a historical review of the internationalization of sciences in Latin America, in order to show that, since the last quarter of XXth Century, we are facing a new configuration: if, until then, the links between “central” and “peripheral” scientists leaved to the latter little room to negotiate; it took from then on the…
Popularization by Argentine researchers
This paper presents the findings of a survey on popularization activities by 1700 scientists in Argentina. The tool used for this research was a questionnaire containing 21 questions on discipline, age, status in hierarchy, intensity of popularization activity, motives, difficulties and opinions on public issues and science policy. Our analysis of the data shows that patterns of public popularization in Argentina do not substantially differ from …
Internacionalização e tensões da ciência latino-americana
La science en débat en Amérique latine
Entre la fin des années 1960 et le début des années 1970 un large courant critique sur le rôle des sciences et des technologies apparaît à travers le monde. De même, en Argentine, ce mouvement s'est traduit dès 1968 et 1969 par la création d'espaces institutionnels pour le débat et la production des connaissances sur les sciences et les technologies. La confrontation d'idées a mis en évidence un processus de politisation de la science qui entraîn…
Sergio Morresi et Gabriel Vommaro (dir.), Saber lo que se hace. Expertos y política en Argentina
Saber lo que se hace. Expertos y política en Argentina part de la constatation que, dans le cadre des reformes sociales amorcées en Argentine et en Amérique latine au cours des années 1970 et consolidées au cours des années 1990, il y a eu des économistes, des politologues, des sociologues, des avocats et d’autres professionnels qui ont activement participé à la constitution de domaines d’expertise en économie, en études liées à la corruption, en…
Sociologie des sciences
Sociologie et démocratie ? Un panorama de la discipline en Argentine entre 1983 et 2007
Est-il possible de mettre en rapport les changements sociaux et les productions des sciences sociales ? Il est difficile de répondre à cette question puisqu’elle s’appuie sur un présupposé : la production sociologique impliquerait une forme de « réceptivité » du social qui la déterminerait (ou qui, tout au moins, aurait une forte influence sur elle), au-delà des dynamiques propres au champ académique lui-même. Or, il est fréquent de dire – et cet…
Knowledge Production, Mobilization and Standardization in Chile’s HidroAysén Case
Un amor no correspondido
La relación entre las ciencias sociales y los estudios sociales de ciencia y tecnología (CTS) dista de ser simple. Mientras que para algunos aún es un objeto de disputa la inclusión de los estudios CTS dentro de la amplia avenida de las ciencias sociales, otros han intentado interesar, seducir o discutir con los colegas de otras disciplinas del campo, para tender puentes entre ambos espacios disciplinarios. No obstante, hasta hoy la mayor parte d…
An Unrequited Love
The relation between STS and the social sciences is far from simple. While including STS in the field of social sciences is an object of dispute for certain researchers, others have tried to involve, seduce, or debate with colleagues in other subfields to establish bridges across these two disciplinary fields. The majority of social sciences researchers however know very little about current developments in STS and some question or even attack it…
Un amour non partagé
Les relations entre sciences sociales et études sociales des sciences et technologies (STS) sont fort complexes. Alors que, pour certains auteurs, l'inclusion des STS dans les sciences sociales est objet de disputes, d'autres ont tenté d'intéresser, séduire ou échanger avec les collègues des autres disciplines du champ pour établir des ponts entre les deux espaces disciplinaires. Cependant, aujourd'hui encore, la majorité des chercheurs en scienc…
Latin American science, technology, and society
The paper deals with the emergence and development the STS field in Latin America, from the sixties on. After an introductory section containing some considerations on the maturation of and approaches to STS in the region, the paper delves into cognitive, institutional, political and social dimensions of the development of this field. It gives then some background, mentioning policies as drivers of knowledge generation, the institutionalization o…
Science and Society in Latin America
Controversies on the Periphery
Scientific co-operation and centre-periphery relations
This article approaches the issue of the so-called North-South scientific cooperation to understand why European research consortia incorporate research groups from Latin America (LA). This boils down to three questions: (a) at the political and institutional level, what is the European Union’s interest in developing co-operation with Latin America? (b) at the level of cognitive strategies, what are the European projects leaders’ motivations to e…
International Ties at Peripheral Sites
In recent decades, scientific knowledge has been increasingly expected to contribute to the resolution of public and controversial issues in Latin America. However, in peripheral sites of knowledge and economic production, the dynamics of both science and society have been complicated by tensions between the demands of local stakeholders and the ties with the global centers of technical and scientific expertise. First, local public issues are oft…
Cosmopolitismo o subordinación? La participación de científicos latinoamericanos en programas europeos
Partiendo de un enfoque cualitativo, pretendemos dar cuenta de las motivaciones de grupos científicos y sus dinámicas de cooperación internacional. Consideramos la participación de científicos latinoamericanos en consorcios europeos y analizamos el punto de vista de los líderes europeos. Dentro de la cooperación científica “Norte-Sur”, planteamos tres niveles de análisis: a nivel institucional, comprender el interés de Europa en cooperar con Lati…
Political science (27 works) · Law (15 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Science, Technology, and Education in Latin America (13 works) · Politics (11 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Social science (10 works) · Geography (9 works) · Humanities (9 works) · Latin Americans (8 works)