Thanks Kamran for this. A review of the various titles you're reading might
make for a useful contribution to the first round of publishing on the new
sftp web magazine. Please let me know if you consider writing up something
a bit more fleshed out than just a list. Happy to discuss off-list if you
like.

And others interested in similar (or different!) writing projects should
start thinking through ideas for the new website. We're still a ways off
from any kind of sustainable publishing schedule but we will hopefully have
a web form for accepting pitches soon.

Chris

On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 2:01 PM, Kamran Nayeri <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> Dear Sigrid:
>
> Thanks for your response.  Allow me to be more specific.  I am interested
> in technology and science as means of human attempt at mastery over
> nature.  For 290,000 years Homo sapiens thrived with a worldview that did
> not have sharp lines of demarcation between "us" and the rest of nature.
> About 10,000 years ago, that changed with the rise of the first farmers.
> But early farmers systematically domesticated plants and animals hence a
> new worldview emerged: anthropocentrism (human-centeredness).  I am
> interested in learning as much as I can about the use of technology and
> science that has been used in history to dominate and control nature.  In
> my view, that is at the base of all class societies and the root-cause of
> alienation from nature (hence social alienation). (I have written this up
> in Part 2
> <http://knayeri.blogspot.com/2017/06/economics-socialism-and-ecology.html>
> of my Economics, Socialism, and Ecology: A Critical Outline) To address the
> present-day social and planetary crisis (one and the same from my
> perspective), we must work our way out of this dilemma. Science for the
> People would be a group of us that embraces a transition to a new science
> and technology paradigm that works with nature and not to dominate and
> control it for the human purpose at a cost to other species.
>
> I have received valuable recommendations from Chandler Davis, Phil Gasper,
> and Prof. Lorraine Dostan (Director, Max Planck Institute for the History
> of Science) who Chandler introduced to me.
>
> If you and others any suggested reading (I would eventually need to choose
> a few as the list gets larger) I would be much obliged.
>
> Once I have more recommendation, I will share the suggested readings with
> the entire list.
>
> Happy 2018.
>
> Kamran
>
> On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 4:50 AM, Sigrid Schmalzer <
> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> The field is so vast... Which areas are you most interested in?
>>
>> If you want books on SftP or related subjects (history of science and
>> political activism in the Cold War US), here are a few good ones:
>> Kelly Moore,
>> *Disrupting Science <https://press.princeton.edu/titles/8545.html> *Sarah
>> Bridger,
>> *Scientists at War
>> <http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674736825> *Paul
>> Rubinson, *Redefining Science*
>> <https://www.umass.edu/umpress/title/redefining-science>
>> and of course... the new Science for the People documentary collection
>> available this week!! *Science for the People: Documents from America's
>> Movement of Radical Scientists*
>> <http://www.umass.edu/umpress/title/science-people>
>>
>> But of course there are lots of other subjects out there of interest. :)
>>
>>
>>
>> On 12/28/2017 12:08 PM, Kamran Nayeri wrote:
>>
>> Dear folks:
>>
>> Could anyone recommend really good literature review(s) or books on the
>> history of science and technology?
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>> Kamran
>>
>>
>> --
>> Sigrid Schmalzer
>> Professor, History Department
>> University of Massachusetts Amherst
>>
>> *Red Revolution, Green Revolution: Scientific Farming in Socialist China*
>> <http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/R/bo22541357.html>
>> (University of Chicago Press, 2016)
>>
>> Forthcoming from UMass Press in December, 2017: *Science for the People:
>> Documents from America's Movement of Radical Scientists*
>> <https://www.umass.edu/umpress/title/science-people>
>>
>> Forthcoming from Tilbury House Publishers in February, 2018: *Moth and
>> Wasp, Soil and Ocean: Remembering Chinese Scientist Pu Zhelong*
>> <https://tilburyhouse.com/book/education-and-teaching/by-subject/multicultural/moth-and-wasp-soil-and-ocean/>
>> (picture book)
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Kamran Nayeri
>