(Apologies for Cross-Posting) *Submit by: March 29* *44. In search of “lines of flights” in / to / for / by Latin America and elsewhere* Ivan da Costa Marques, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, imarques@ufrj.br Reliable knowledge today is strongly identified with scientific knowledge. The overwhelming majority of scientific facts and artifacts, however, are produced in the “West” (no longer a geographic category) and arrive in their stable forms (as ready objects) in “rest of the world”, where they enjoy the attributes of universality and neutrality (in spite of STS results). In these terms it is possible to say that modern sciences from the West, and mainly the authority they acquire in hegemonic epistemological grounds, provide a cage that confines the space available for Latin Americans and other people to search for their own local knowledges, that is, solutions of their practical problems. Through schooling, many people are thought that it would make no sense “to do” spaces and times or propose objects outside presumed universal and neutral knowledge —they would be “simply wrong” since Latin Americans usually lack the resources to build counter-laboratories and establish proper scientific controversies. This part of what some Latin American authors call the “power of coloniality”. This session indicates a special welcome to papers about programs and/or controversies involving conflicts between Western scientific knowledges and knowledges associated to local practices. This proposal seeks to further develop discussions that took place in Cleveland, Copenhagen, and Buenos Aires. New participants are very welcome. *--* *David Nemer* PhD Candidate in Social Informatics School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University Author of "Favela Digital: The other side of technology" - http://favela-digital.com Editor of the Social Informatics Blog - http://socialinformaticsblog.com http://www.dnemer.com