Abstract

In the last decades, Science, Technology and Society studies (STS) have extended their analyses to many issues beyond the classic topics with which the field was born in the 1960s (Jasanoff et al. Citation2001), including feminist and post-colonial studies, and research on racism and social inequalities, among other issues (Felt et al. Citation2017). Despite this significant expansion, the field of human rights still does not receive systematic attention from STS studies. With this Cluster, we want to contribute to bridge this gap, through empirical works concerning human rights violations and violence, past or present, whether they refer to ancestral forms of life, the death and disappearance of migrants at borders, controversies surrounding abortion, the quantification of forced disappearance and forced displacement of people, or international solidarity networks towards those suffering from exile.