At the 2020 4S/EASTS conference, the panel “Locating South Asia in Social Studies of Science and Technology” aimed to bring together research on South Asia that are otherwise scattered across different topical 4S panels. By bringing together the research communities of South Asia, it aimed to render visible and consolidate conceptual vocabularies, epistemological, ontological and ethical concerns, and methods involved in researching South Asia. This year’s panel is a “bridgework” that draws together the ongoing effort to revisit different pasts of STS in South Asia to intervene in its present and explore possible future avenues for research, collaboration, interdisciplinary and transnational speculations. Papers that explore the following questions are welcome to apply:
1)	How does the STS work in South Asia relate with STS areas and theories including Sociology of Scientific Knowledge, Actor-Network Theory, New Materialisms, Indigenous and Postcolonial Studies?
2)	How do such theories when applied to the context of South Asia emerge with unique sensibilities in your research?
3)	How can relating STS to anthropological and sociological work on scientific knowledge and technoscientific development in South Asia question “the imperialism of [Global North] categories” in research as an effort towards decolonializing STS?
4)	What are the other sciences that are possible in “a world of sciences” and technologies when technoscience is viewed “from below?”  (Harding; Wiley) 
Hence, this panel also aims to investigate the diversity loss in sciences and livelihood losses due to the (de-)legitimizing tactics of modern science. Papers that focus on any STS areas in the context of South Asia including but not limited to technoscientific development of nation states, computational politics, legal, social and environmental justice, public understanding of science, Anthropocene, and postcolonialism may apply. 
Bibliography
Harding, Sandra G. 2008. Sciences from below: Feminisms, Postcolonialities, and Modernities. Durham: Duke University Press.
Lal, Vinay. 2010. “Thesis Two: Postcolonialism Has Had Nothing to Say about the Imperialism of Categories.” Lal Salaam: A Blog by Vinay Lal Reflections on the Culture of Politics & the Politics of Culture. November 30. https://vinaylal.wordpress.com/2010/11/30/thesis-two-postcolonialism-has-had-nothing-to-say-about-the-imperialism-of-categories/.
Wiley, Angela. 2016. “A World of Materialisms: Postcolonial Feminist Science Studies and the New Natural.” Science, Technology, & Human Values 41 (6): 991–1014. doi:10.1177/0162243916658707.