Like a winding thread passing through tryings at risk, this book is my endeavour to make explicit the situatedness and responsibility of research and researchers in tro-uble — whether in the grand challenges of our age or in the very local challenges of survival. Efforts to promote more complex and integrated understandings of society in science, or of science as a political arena, are urgent when facing the incalculabilities of our late-modern spheres of society. There is no doubt that technologies co‑evolve out of interactions in specific contexts. This implies that responsibility for where and how technologies travel, and for what uses they serve, must be collective. No innocent position exists. The demand on us as producers of knowledge and technology is focused on the reality‑producing consequences of our research and thus places us right into the context of implication.

The frames of understanding are developed within feminist technoscience and are linked to practitioners and writers of Mode 2 knowledge production. How can feminist research, and other disciplines that take a critical view of science, mobilise the transformatory potential required?

Part I presents insights into the relocations needed in (onto-)epistemological infrastructures, and Part II outlines a positioning within the fields of feminist research and feminist technoscience. Part III discusses experiences and two political dimensions — research political initiatives to support feminist research, followed by reflections on the convergence of science and politics. Part IV offers examples of research in contexts of not only application but implication.