Further reading
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BOOKS
Abraham, Itty. The making of the Indian atomic bomb: science, secrecy and the postcolonial state. New Delhi: Orient Longman, 1998.
Anderson, Robert S. Nucleus and nation: scientists, international networks and power in India. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2010.
Arontowits, Stanley. Science and power: discourse and ideology in modern society. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1988.
Beck, Ulrich. Risk society: towards a new modernity. London, Thousand Oaks and New Delhi: Sage Publications, 1992.
Bernal, Joseph D. The social function of science. London: Oxford University Press, 1939.
Chakravarty, Sukhamoy. Development planning: the Indian experience. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1987.
Cooper, Melinda. Life as surplus: biotechnology and capitalism in the neoliberal era. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2008.
Cozzens, Susan E. and Edward J. Woodhouse. Science, government and the politics of knowledge, in Sheila Jasanoff, et al. (eds.), Handbook of science and technology studies. Revised edition. Thousand Oaks, London and New Delhi: Sage Publishers, 1995, 533-553.
Ezrahi, Yaron. The descent of Icarus: science and the transformation of contemporary democracy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1990.
Funtowicz, Silvio and Jerome Ravetz. The emergence of post-normal science, in R. von Schomberg (ed.). Science, politics and morality: scientific uncertainty and decision making. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1993, 85-123.
Gibbons, Michael et al. The new production of knowledge: the dynamics of science and research in contemporary societies. Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, Singapore and Washington: Sage, 1994.
Guston, David H. The demise of the social contract for science: misconduct in science and non-modern world. Working Paper No. 19, Programme in Science, Technology and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992.
Habib, S. Irfan and Dhruv Raina (eds). Social history of science in colonial India. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2007.
Hilgartner, Stephen. Science on stage: expert advice as public drama. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2000.
Irwin, Alan and Brian Wynne (eds.). Misunderstanding science? the public reconstruction of science and technology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Irwin, Alan. Citizen science: a study of people, expertise and sustainable development. London and New York: Routledge, 1995.
Jasanoff, Sheila (ed.). States of knowledge: the co-production of science and social order. London and New York: Routledge, 2004.
Jasanoff, Sheila. Designs on nature: science and democracy in the United States and Europe. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005.
Jasanoff, Sheila. The fifth branch: science advisers as policymakers. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1990.
Kumar, Deepak. Science and the raj: a study of British India. Second edition. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2006.
Leach, Melissa, Ian Scoones and Brian Wynne (eds.). Science and citizens: globalisation and the challenge of engagement. London and New York: Zed Books, 2005.
Maasen, Sabine and Peter Weingart (eds.). Democratisation of expertise? Exploring novel forms of scientific advice in political decision-making. Dordrecht: Springer, 2009.
Mukerji, Chandra. A fragile power: scientists and the state. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989.
Nandy, Ashis. Introduction: science as a reason of state, in Ashis Nandy (ed.). Science, hegemony and violence: a requiem for modernity. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1988, 1-23.
Nowotny, Helga, Peter Scott and Michael Gibbons. Rethinking science: knowledge and the public in the age of uncertainty. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2001.
Pestre, Dominique. Science, political power and the state, in John Krige and Dominique Pestre (eds.), Science in the twentieth century. Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1997, 61-75.
Phalkey, Jahnavi. Atomic state: big science in twentieth-century India. Ranikhet: Permanent Black, 2013.
Raina, Dhruv. Science since independence, in Ira Pande (ed.). India 60: Towards a new paradigm. New Delhi: Harper Collins Publishers India, 2007, 182-94.
Rajan, Kaushik Sunder. Biocapital: the constitution of postgenomic life. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006.
Roy, Arundhati. The algebra of infinite justice. New Delhi: Penguin Books, 2013.
Santos, Boaventura de Sousa (ed.). Another knowledge is possible: beyond northern epistemologies. London: Verso, 2007.
Scerri, Mario and Helena M.M. Lastres (eds.). The role of the state. London, New York and New Delhi: Routledge, 2013.
Shiva, Vandana. The violence of the green revolution: third world agriculture, ecology, and politics. London: Zed Books and Penang: Third World Network, 1991.
Snow, C.P. Science and government. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1961.
Visvanathan, Shiv. On the annals of the laboratory state, in Ashis Nandy (ed.). Science, hegemony and violence: a requiem for modernity. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1988, 257-88.
Visvanathan, Shiv. Organizing for science: the making of an industrial research laboratory. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1985.
Weingart, Peter. The loss of distance: science in transition, in Garland E. Allen and Roy M. MacLeod (eds.). Science, history, and socialism: a tribute to Everett Mendelsohn. Dordrecht, Boston and London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002,167-84.
Zachariah, Benjamin. Developing India: an intellectual and social history, c. 1930-50. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Ziman, John. Real science: what it is, and what it means. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
ARTICLES
Abraham, Itty. Geopolitics and biopolitics in India’s high natural background radiation zone. ‘Science, Technology and Society’ 17(1): 2012:105-122.
Comaroff, Jean. Beyond bare life: AIDS, (bio)politics, and the neoliberal order. ‘Public Culture’ 19(1): 2007: 197-219.
Davenport, Sally and Shirley Leitch. Agoras, ancient and modern, and a framework for science-society debate. ‘Science and Public Policy’: April 2005: 137-153.
Desiraju, Gautam R. Science education and research in India. ‘Economic and Political Weekly’, 14 June 2008: 37-43.
Durant, Darrin. Models of democracy in social studies of science. ‘Social Studies of Science’ 41(5): 2011: 691-714.
Felt, Ulrike and Maximilian Fochler. Machineries for making publics: inscribing and de-scribing publics in public engagement. ‘Minerva’ 48(3): 2010: 219-239.
Gibbons, Michael. Science’s new social contract with society. ‘Nature’ 402: 1999: C81-C84.
Hagendijk, R.P. The public understanding of science and public participation in regulated worlds. ‘Minerva’ 42 (1): 2004: 41-59.
Hagendijk, Rob and Alan Irwin. Public deliberation and governance: engaging with science and technology in contemporary Europe, ‘Minerva’, 44(2): 2006: 167-84.
Irwin, Alan. Constructing the scientific citizen: science and democracy in the biosciences. ‘Public Understanding of Science’ 10(1): 2001: 1-18.
Jasanoff, Sheila. Technologies of humility: citizen participation in governing science. ‘Minerva’ 41: 2003: 223-244.
Kaur, Raminder. Sovereignty without hegemony, the nuclear state, and a ‘secret public hearing’ in India. ‘Theory, Culture and Society’ 30(3): 2013: 3-28.
Knowledge in Question: a symposium on interrogating knowledge and questioning science. ‘Seminar’ 597: May 2009:11-80.
Krishna, V.V. Reflections on the changing status of academic science in India. ‘International Social Science Journal’ 169: June 2001: 231-246.
LÖvbrand, Eva, Roger Pielke Jr. and Silke Beck. A democracy paradox in studies of science and technology. ‘Science, Technology and Human Values’ 36(4): 2011: 474-496.
Nowotny, Helga, Peter Scott and Michael Gibbons. Introduction, ‘mode 2’ revisited: the new production of knowledge. ‘Minerva’ 41: 2003: 179-194.
Prasad, Amit. Capitalizing disease: biopolitics of drug trials in India. ‘Theory, Culture and Society’ 26(5): 2009: 1-29.
Prasad, C. Shambu. Science and technology in civil society: innovation trajectory of spirulina algal technology. ‘Economic and Political Weekly’: 1 October 2005: 4363-4372.
Prasad, C. Shambu. Towards an understanding of Gandhi’s views on science. ‘Economic and Political Weekly’ 36(39): 29 September-5 October 2001: 3721-3732.
Raina, Dhruv. Evolving perspectives on science and history: a chronicle of modern India’s scientific enchantment and disenchantment (1850-1980). ‘Social Epistemology’ 11(1): 1997: 3-24.
Raina, Rajeswari S. Public patronage and political neutrality in agricultural research: lessons from British experience. ‘Economic and Political Weekly’ 32(39): 1997: 2473-2485.
Rajan, S. Ravi. Science, state and violence: an Indian critique reconsidered. ‘Science as Culture’ 14(3): September 2005: 1-17.
Turner, Stephen. What is the problem with experts? ‘Social Studies of Sciences’ 31(1): 2001: 123-49.
Varughese, Shiju Sam. Where are the missing masses? the quasi-publics and non-publics of technoscience. ‘Minerva’ 50(2): 2012: 239-254.
Vavakova, Blanka. The new social contract between governments, universities and society: has the old one failed? ‘Minerva’ 36(3): September 1998: 209-228.
Visvanathan, Shiv. Democracy, governance and science: strange case of the missing discipline. ‘Economic and Political Weekly’: 29 September 2001: 3684-3688.
Weingart, Peter. From ‘finalization’ to ‘mode 2’: old wine in new bottles? ‘Social Science Information’: 36(4): 1997: 591-613.
Weingart, Peter. Scientific expertise and political accountability: paradoxes of science in politics. ‘Science and Public Policy’ 26(3): June 1999: 151-161.
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