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For the first time, this book compiles original documents from
Science for the People, the most important radical science movement
in U.S. history. Between 1969 and 1989, Science for the People
mobilized American scientists, teachers, and students to practice a
socially and economically just science, rather than one that served
militarism and corporate profits. Through research, writing,
protest, and organizing, members sought to demystify scientific
knowledge and embolden ""the people"" to take science and
technology into their own hands. The movement's numerous
publications were crucial to the formation of science and
technology studies, challenging mainstream understandings of
science as ""neutral"" and instead showing it as inherently
political. Its members, some at prominent universities, became
models for politically engaged science and scholarship by using
their knowledge to challenge, rather than uphold, the social,
political, and economic status quo. Highlighting Science for the
People's activism and intellectual interventions in a range of
areas - including militarism, race, gender, medicine, agriculture,
energy, and global affairs - this volume offers vital contributions
to today's debates on science, justice, democracy, sustainability,
and political power.
During the presidency of Richard Nixon, homegrown leftist guerrilla
groups like the Weather Underground and the Black Liberation Army
carried out hundreds of attacks in the United States. The FBI had a
long history of infiltrating activist groups, but this type of
clandestine action posed a unique challenge. Drawing on thousands
of pages of declassified FBI documents, Daniel S. Chard shows how
America's war with domestic guerillas prompted a host of new
policing measures as the FBI revived illegal spy techniques
previously used against communists in the name of fighting
terrorism. These efforts did little to stop the guerrillas-instead,
they led to a bureaucratic struggle between the Nixon
administration and the FBI that fueled the Watergate Scandal and
brought down Nixon. Yet despite their internal conflicts, FBI and
White House officials developed preemptive surveillance practices
that would inform U.S. counterterrorism strategies into the
twenty-first century, entrenching mass surveillance as a
cornerstone of the national security state. Connecting the dots
between political violence and ""law and order"" politics, Chard
reveals how American counterterrorism emerged in the 1970s from
violent conflicts over racism, imperialism, and policing that
remain unresolved today.
For the first time, this book compiles original documents from
Science for the People, the most important radical science movement
in U.S. history. Between 1969 and 1989, Science for the People
mobilized American scientists, teachers, and students to practice a
socially and economically just science, rather than one that served
militarism and corporate profits. Through research, writing,
protest, and organizing, members sought to demystify scientific
knowledge and embolden ""the people"" to take science and
technology into their own hands. The movement's numerous
publications were crucial to the formation of science and
technology studies, challenging mainstream understandings of
science as ""neutral"" and instead showing it as inherently
political. Its members, some at prominent universities, became
models for politically engaged science and scholarship by using
their knowledge to challenge, rather than uphold, the social,
political, and economic status quo. Highlighting Science for the
People's activism and intellectual interventions in a range of
areas - including militarism, race, gender, medicine, agriculture,
energy, and global affairs - this volume offers vital contributions
to today's debates on science, justice, democracy, sustainability,
and political power.
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