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Disrupting Science: Social Movements, American Scientists, and the Politics of the Military, 1945-1975

Disrupting Science: Social Movements, American Scientists, and the Politics of the Military, 1945-1975

Moore, Kelly

Paperback

Series: Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology, Book 58

Technology & EngineeringSports GeneralGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0691162093
ISBN13: 9780691162096
Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
Published: Dec 15 2013
Pages: 328
Weight: 1.11
Height: 0.73 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

In the decades following World War II, American scientists were celebrated for their contributions to social and technological progress. They were also widely criticized for their increasingly close ties to military and governmental power--not only by outside activists but from among the ranks of scientists themselves. Disrupting Science tells the story of how scientists formed new protest organizations that democratized science and made its pursuit more transparent. The book explores how scientists weakened their own authority even as they invented new forms of political action.

Drawing extensively from archival sources and in-depth interviews, Kelly Moore examines the features of American science that made it an attractive target for protesters in the early cold war and Vietnam eras, including scientists' work in military research and activities perceived as environmentally harmful. She describes the intellectual traditions that protesters drew from--liberalism, moral individualism, and the New Left--and traces the rise and influence of scientist-led protest organizations such as Science for the People and the Union of Concerned Scientists. Moore shows how scientist protest activities disrupted basic assumptions about science and the ways scientific knowledge should be produced, and recast scientists' relationships to political and military institutions.


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