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Contents of Issue 19.2 Thematic Dossier: “Small Science: Perspectives on Contemporary Small-Scale Research” Introduction: Why Small Science Xavier Roqué, Gemma Cirac-Claveras Small by Design? Acting, Being, and Feeling Small in the History of Quantum and Mechanical Computation Eóin Phillips Jugaad As Small Science: The ‘e-Rickshaw’ Conundrum in Delhi Shekhar Jain, Saradindu Bhaduri Small Science, Little Fraud? Scale and Misconduct in Contemporary Science Eduard Aibar Is Small Science Cargo Cult? Mimicry, Dependency and Agency in the Margins of Big Science David Aubin Varia Before the “Fascist Labscapes”: Origin and Development of Plant Breeding in Portugal, 1862–1926 Carlos Manuel Faísca Book Reviews William Max Nelson, Enlightenment Biopolitics: A History of Race, Eugenics, and the Making of Citizens Review by Robert Brown José Maria Moreno Madrid; Henrique Leitão, A Longitude do Mundo – Viagens Oceânicas, Cosmografia Matemática e a Construção de ...

Call for Papers for the session "Women, Sacred Landscapes, and Ritual Mobility in the Ancient Mediterranean" as part of the 32nd Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists in 2026 in Athens in Greece, August 26-29:  Women, Sacred Landscapes, and Ritual Mobility in the Ancient Mediterranean The session explores the intersections of gender, movement and sacred space in the ancient Mediterranean by foregrounding women’s active engagement with religious space and cult. Across diverse cultural and ethnic contexts, women carried out acts of devotion that transcended domestic boundaries and reshaped religious environments. For this session, we seek papers examining the impact of female agency on the formation of votive and cult practices beyond household and town settings, from peri-urban sanctuaries and cave shrines to sacred centers and distant dedication sites.  We welcome papers that explore women’s religious identities, practices and offerings and the social r...

Concept Note The ongoing transformations in the education sector, marked by the emergence of new enclosures of knowledge, privatisation and the accelerating AI-turn, have profoundly affected all arenas of ‘intellectual life’. Curricula, pedagogy, modes of research and intellectual labour are undergoing radical transformation both within and beyond the institutional framework of the university. One of the results of this change is the separation of  techne  from  episteme  - between the skills and labour involved in producing knowledge and a reflective understanding of how and why such knowledge is generated. In critically examining the process of knowledge production, circulation, and consumption, within and beyond the academy, it becomes crucial to interrogate how different practitioners contribute to knowledge making, critical thinking, and inaugurate newer forms of engagement. Taken together, these developments indicate that  how we produce knowledge, and how...

The term  Regimescape  refers to urban, architectural, and agricultural landscapes shaped by twentieth-century regimes as material manifestations of political ideology, social engineering, and modernist ambition. As Hannah Arendt observed, totalitarian power extends beyond institutions to the organization of space, nature, and everyday life; in this sense, architecture and landscape become essential instruments of governance and political legitimation. This volume offers a historical-critical reconsideration of these landscapes, moving beyond both celebratory narratives and uncritical erasure. The focus is on cities, monumental districts, infrastructure, land reclamation projects, and agricultural landscapes as sites where politics, technology, and ecology intertwined in meaningful ways, becoming tools of governance, economic development, and symbolic representation. Drawing on James C. Scott’s analysis of state-imposed territorial legibility, the volume investigates how regim...