STAND has initiated a series of innovative books together with Oxford University Press. The series is focusing on the influence that science and technology have played and continue to have in international affairs. The series takes an interdisciplinary approach to decenter traditional histories of science and geopolitics, to illuminate underrepresented historical actors, and to reveal new networks of power. Above all, the series aims at building novel narratives in the recognition that science and technology have been important forces for change in societies and a key driver of globalization.
The books in this series expand STAND’s efforts to give a critical, historically informed perspective to the study of the interplay between science, technology and international affairs, hence going beyond the simplistic understanding of ‘science diplomacy’. The latter has served as a buzzword for recent initiatives but has not led to explore or explain enough the complex entanglement of science, technology, and international affairs. The series seeks to add critical historical depth, also challenging established approaches and bringing new voices into a truly global history of science, technology, and international affairs.
Three books coming soon!
Barbara Hof: Nuclear Training in Cold War Geopolitics. Coaching Atoms Across Nations explores how educational programmes forged transatlantic relations, offering deeper insights into the social practices of scientific exchange that shaped knowledge circulation
Alice Naisbitt: Globalising Science. The British Council’s Science Diplomacy in the Twentieth Century examines the cultural dimensions of UK scientific exchange, revealing how informal forms of soft power intervention enabled the entanglement of scientific and diplomatic agendas
Simone Turchetti and Roberto Lalli: The Making of Science Diplomacy. A Transnational History in the Long 20th Century offers the first comprehensive history of international affairs with a techno-scientific component, tracing the ancestry of ‘science diplomacy’ in a family of terms connoting similar interactions since the late 19th century
Book Proposals Welcome
Inquiries as well as proposals for contributions to this series can be sent to STAND@manchester.ac.uk. Your proposal should include:
- Proposed title and one to two pages summarizing the aims, motivation, general approach, and scope of the book, as well as its potential readership;
- Draft table of contents with subheadings and estimated page numbers;
- List of related books with your comments on them, and an overview of your intended audience;
- A draft introduction and a sample chapter;
- A brief CV of the author(s) and Orcid ID.
Editorial Committee
- Simone Turchetti, University of Manchester, UK
- Gisela Mateos, UNAM, Mexico
- Yuka Moriguchi, University of Kyoto, Japan
- Alexei Kojevnikov, University of British Colombia, Canada
- John Krige, Georgia Tech, U.S.A.
- Ana Simões, University of Lisbon, Portugal
- Sam Robinson, University of York, UK
- Doubravka Olšáková, Charles University, Czech Republic
- Matthew Adamson, Corvinus University, Hungary
- Barbara Silva, UC Chile, Chile