Aliens of the World Unite!
This chapter explores how academic, intellectual, political, personal, natural, and cultural voices came into conversation with each other. Rarely do we explore the profound ways in which these same narratives of personal, cultural, political, and economic contexts and the various life experiences or the trials and tribulations of one's life can have a profound and uncanny influence on scientific epistemology and methodology. This chapter argues that the cultural contexts of science are not just a byproduct or curiosity but in fact can be the source of new insights, new theories, and new knowledge for science. Studying science in context affords a glimpse into the entanglements of the natural and cultural, the personal and professional, and the political and intellectual, entanglements that become a rich site for new knowledge and theory making.