Radical technology bibliography

While the failure of centrally-planned economies and centrally-directed societies is now widely accepted, it is much less known that the societies based on a market economy have been equally unable to tackle the environmental crisis.

Vargha and Fleischer, 1993, The most important tasks of environmental protection in Hungary (Eastern European Environmental Research Institute), p. 159.

Latest

Rudnik, 2024, Machinery of dissent: Exploring the techno-social practices
of modern protests, in: Internet Policy Review

Mansfield, et al., 2024, A new critical social science research agenda on pesticides, in: Agriculture and Human Values

Larson, 2023, Computer Center Sabotage, 1968–1971: Luddism, Black Studies, and the Diversion of Technological Progress, in: boundary 2

Nauert, 2023, Climate Crucible: American Choices in Germany, Japan, and the Making of the Great Acceleration, 1939-1953 (Stanford University)

Scott, 2022, Inside Greenpeace’s science labs, in: C&EN

Freihardt, 2021, Draußen ist es anders: Auf neuen Wegen zu einer Wissenschaft für den Wandel

Llorente, et al., 2021, Social participation in science: Perspectives of Spanish civil society organizations, in: Public Understanding of Science

Henry, et al., 2021, Introduction: Beyond the Production of Ignorance: The Pervasiveness of Industry Influence through the Tools of Chemical Regulation, in: Science, Technology and Human Values

Toupin, 2021, From Dream to Reality: The African National Congress Internet, in: Coloniality of Infrastructure

2010-2020

Unander and Sørensen, 2020, Rhizomic learning: How environmental non-governmental organizations (ENGOs) acquire and assemble knowledge, in: Social Studies of Science

János Vargha, 2019, Drifting Countries: Politics and Environment in East Central Europe, in: Environmental Cooperation in Europe: the Political Dimension

King and Levidow, 2016, Introduction: Contesting Science and Technology, from the 1970s to the Present, in: Science as Culture

Aurora’s Eye Films, 2015, Solar Village in Action and The Findhorn Community and Foundation in Scotland

Boudia and Jas, 2014, Powerless Science?: Science and Politics in a Toxic World

Vásárhelyi, 2014, The anatomy of the Slovak-Hungarian underground protection of the Danube in the eighties, in: Transboundary Symbiosis over the Danube: EU Integration between Slovakia and Hungary from a Local Border Perspective

Čada and Ptáčková, 2013, Possibilities and limits of collaboration between science and NGOs in the Czech Republic, in: Journal of Cleaner Production

Andreas and Wagner, 2012, Realizing Utopia: Ecovillage Endeavors and Academic Approaches

Girón, 2011, Taking Pyotr Kropotkin Seriously. Darwinism, Anarchy and Science, in: Mètode Science Studies Journal

Madrigal, 2011, Powering the dream: The history and promise of green technology

2000-2010

Pearce, 2009, The dam that broke the Berlin Wall, in: New Scientist

Erwood, 2009, People and Places: the Greenpeace Science Unit (Greenpeace)

Stilgoe, 2009, Citizen Scientists Reconnecting Science with Civil Society (Demos)

Hood and Margetts (eds.), 2007, The Tools of Government in the Digital Age

Loebenstein and Thottappilly, 2007, Agricultural Research Management

Wynne, et al., 2007, Taking European Knowledge Society Seriously (European Commission)

Smith, 2005, The Alternative Technology Movement: An Analysis of its Framing and Negotiation of Technology Development, in: Research in Human Ecology

Wagner, 2004, Commons ignorance: the failure of environmental law to produce needed information on health and the environment, in: Duke Law Journal

Kohout and Mayer-Tasch, 2002, Das ökologische Weltgewissen Die Arbeit von NGOs im Rahmen der internationalen Umweltpolitik, in: Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte

1990-2000

Vorley and Keeney, 1998, Bugs in the System: Redesigning the Pesticide Industry for Sustainable Agriculture

Asopa and Beye, 1997, Management of Agricultural Research: A Training Manual (FAO)

Cofino, 1997, Review of Greenpeace’s Exeter Science Unit and Laboratory (IVM Rapport)

Wagner, 1997, Choosing Ignorance in the Manufacture of Toxic Products, in: Cornell Law Review

MacKenzie, 1996, Principles of Agricultural Research Management

Noble, 1995, Progress Without People: New Technology, Unemployment, and the Message of Resistance

Vargha and Fleischer, 1993, The most important tasks of environmental protection in Hungary (Eastern European Environmental Research Institute)

Fleischer and Vargha, 1991, Hungary Seeks to Lift Blight of Pollution, in: Forum for Applied Research and Policy

Jeremy K. Leggett, 1990, Global Warming: The Greenpeace Report [website]

Cherfas, 1990, Greenpeace and science: oil and water?, in: Science

Dobson, 1990, Green Political Thought: an Introduction

1980-1990

Winner, 1986, The Whale and the Reactor: A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology

McGucken, 1984, Scientists, society, and state: the social relations of science movement in Great Britain, 1931-1947

Les Levidow and Bob Young (eds), 1981, Science, Technology and the Labour Process

Rita Arditti (ed.), 1980, Science and Liberation (see also: Searching for Life: The Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo and the Disappeared Children of Argentina).

Before 1980

Baldwin and Brand, 1978, Soft-Tech

Winner, 1977, Autonomous Technology – Technics-out-of-Control as a Theme in Political Thought

Ackroyd, et al., 1977, The Technology of Political Control

Skurka and Naar, 1976, Design for a Limited Planet: Living with Natural Energy

Harper and Boyle, 1976, Radical Technology (see also Radical Technology Revisited, 2016)

Paul M. Sweezy, 1972, Cars and cities (“automobile-industrial complex”), in: Monthly Review

Science Against The People: The Story of Jason – The Elite Group Of Academic Scientists Who, As Technical Consultants To The Pentagon, Have Developed The Latest Weapon Against Peoples’ Liberation Struggles: “Automated Warfare” (1972)

Archive of Undercurrents, the magazine of radical science and alternative technology, 1972 – 1984

Bookchin, 1971, Post-Scarcity Anarchism

Weisberg (ed.), 1970, Ecocide in Indochina: the ecology of war

Taghi Farvar and Milton (eds.), 1969, The Careless Technology: Ecology and International Development

Kropotkin, 1902, Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution

Breaking the Frame

Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe (REC-CEE). A program funded by the USA and the European Commission. It produced such reports as Strategic environmental issues in Central and Eastern Europe (1994); and The Environmental Technology Market in Central and Eastern Europe (1997).