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Books and Edited Volumes

Tactical Biopolitics: Art, Activism, and Technoscience

B. da Costa and K. Philip, editors, Boston: MIT Press, 2008

Homeland Securities

K. Philip, D. Serlin, E. Reilly, editors, Radical History Review, Issue 93 (Durham: Duke University Press), Fall 2005 Awarded Best Special Issue prize for 2005 by the Council of Editors of Learned Journals

Multiple Contentions

K. Philip and Andor Skotnes, editors, Radical History Review (Durham: Duke University Press), Issue 88, Winter 2004.

Constructing Human Rights in the Age of Globalization

Mahmood Monshipouri, Neil Englehart, Andrew Nathan, Kavita Philip, editors, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2003.

[MONOGRAPH] Civilizing Natures: Race, Resources and Modernity in Colonial South India

Rutgers University Press (U. S. edition) 2004; Orient Longman (Asia/UK edition) 2003.

Book Chapters

Kavita Philip. Producing Transnational Knowledge, Neo-liberal Identities, and Technoscientific Practice in India,

in Tactical Biopolitics, Eds. Beatriz da Costa and Kavita Philip, Boston: MIT Press, 2008.

Beatriz da Costa and Kavita Philip. Introduction, and 7 Section Introductions,

in Tactical Biopolitics, Eds. Beatriz da Costa and Kavita Philip, Boston: MIT Press, 2008.

Amita Baviskar, Subir Sinha, Kavita Philip. Rethinking Indian Environmentalism: Industrial Pollution in Delhi and Fisheries in Kerala India,

in Forging Environmentalism: Justice, Livelihood, and Contested Environments, Ed. Joanne Bauer (M. E. Sharpe, 2006).

Kavita Philip. "Science and Technology Studies and Indigenous Knowledge,"

in International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, ed. N. J. Smelser and P. Baltes, London: Elsevier (2001).

Kavita Philip. Environmental Rights as Human Rights

in Constructing Human Rights in the Age of Globalization, co-edited by Neil Englehart, Mahmood Monshipouri, Andrew Nathan, Kavita Philip, NY: M. E. Sharpe 2003.

Journal Articles

Art and Environmentalist Practice

in Capitalism Nature Socialism, 19:2, June 2008

'Nature, Culture Capital, Empire'

in Capitalism Nature Socialism, 18:1, March 2007, pp. 5 - 12

What is a technological author? The pirate function and intellectual property

in Postcolonial Studies, Volume 8,Number 2, 2005, pp. 199-218. [Spanish translation, Journal Nomadas [Colombia], April 2008]

"Asian Savages and Celtic Calibans: Race, Class and the Imperial Politics of Ethnography in India, Ireland and England"

in Irish Studies Review, Vol. 10, No. 3, December 2002, pp. 289-302

Party Over, Oops, Out of Time: Y2K, Technological Risk, and Informational Millenarianism

Harpold, T. and Philip, K. in NMEDIAC Winter 2002, Vol. 1, No. 1 (25 pages)

Globalizing Technical Communication: A Field Report from China

Carol Barnum, Kavita Philip, Alison Reynolds, Michele Shauf, and Teresa Thompson. in Technical Communication, Vol. 48 No. 4, November 2001, pp. 397-420.

"Mumia Abu-Jamal and the Social Wage of Whiteness"

Van Gosse and Kavita Philip. in Radical History Review, Issue 81, Fall 2001, pp. 5-14

"Seeds of Neo-colonialism? Reflections on Globalization and Indigenous Knowledge"

in Capitalism, Nature, Socialism, Volume 12, No 2, Issue 46, June 2001, pp. 3-47

"Of Bugs and Rats: Cyber-cleanliness, Cyber-squalor, and the Fantasies of Globalization"

Harpold, T. and Philip, K. (extended and revised version) in Postmodern Culture, Volume11, Number 1, Sept 2000 (28 pages)

"Global Botanical Networks, Environmentalist Discourses, and the Political Economy of Cinchona Transplantation to British India"

in Revue Francaise d'Histoire d'Outre-Mer, Issue No. 322-323 April 1999 pp.119-142

"English Mud: Toward a Critical Cultural Studies of Colonial Science"

in Cultural Studies, 12 (3) 1998 pp. 300-331

"Imperial Science Rescues a Tree: Global Botanic Networks, Local Knowledge, and the Transcontinental Transplantation of Cinchona"

in Environment and History, Vol. 1, No. 2, June 1995 pp.173-200

Book Reviews

Review of The Great Social Laboratory, by Omnia El Shakry

in JMEWS (forthcoming).

Review of "Toward a Global Science" by Susantha Goonatilake

in Isis, Vol 92 No 1, March 2001, pp. 247-8

Review of "Eco-Pragmatism" by Daniel Faber

in Local Environment, No. 5, 2, Spring 2000 pp. 231-232

Other (for general audiences)

Usha Zacharias and Kavita Philip, Perfect Knowledge, Imperfect Communication,

in Asia Times online, Feb 1 2005, http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/GB02Df06.html. Also in Malaysian translation, March 24, 2005 in Malaysia Today, http://www.malaysia-today.net/blog/2005_03_24_MT_BM_archive.htm

Harpold, T. and Philip, K. "Of Bugs and Rats: Cyber-cleanliness, Cyber-squalor, and the Fantasies of Globalization,"

Summer 2002, Side Streets Journal

Amala Emmanuel and Kavita Philip, 'At the End of a Day,'

in The Hindu, (Madras, India) Sunday Supplement on Education, July 12, 1998

Natrajan, Balmurli, Ciarn Faolin, and Kavita Philip, 'S.A.P.s, Dust, and Hot Air: Gail Omvedt and Liberalization,'

in Ghadar, July 1998

Priya Gopal and Kavita Philip, 'Beauty and the Politics of Resistance,'

in Ghadar, Vol 1 No 1 May 1997

Conference Proceedings

S.E. Sim and K. Philip, Tracing Transnational Flows of IT Knowledge Through Open Exchange of Software Development Know-How,

in iConference 2008 Proceedings, February 2008

Technical Authorship: Refiguring the Designer-user Conflict and the Visioning of Collective Technical Futures.

Marisa Leavitt Cohn, Susan Elliott Sim and Kavita Philip, in iConference 2008 Proceedings, February 2008.

Harpold, T. and Philip, K. "Of Bugs and Rats: Cyber-cleanliness, Cyber-squalor, and the Fantasies of Globalization,"

published in "Exploring Cybersociety," Conference Proceedings, ed. John Armitage, Joanne Roberts, et. al., University of Nothumbria at Newcastle, 1999.

PRESENTATIONS

Invited Presentations

The Motherboard Awaits: Mutant Ninja Hackers Revisited,

Clayman Institute for Gender and Science, Stanford University, April 9, 2008.

Gender, Environment, Globalization: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

at Conference on Gendered Innovations in Science and Engineering, Stanford University, March 13-14 2008.

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Gender and Science Studies,

School of Humanities, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, Nov 23, 2007.

Transnational Circuits of Technological Reproduction: Getting to Technoscience Studies via Gender, Race, History, & Theory,

at University of Wisconsin Holtz Center for Science and Technology Studies, October 15, 2007.

Feminist Technoscience Studies: Colonial and Postcolonial Analytics, at UCLA Center for the Study of Women, February 23 2007.

Property and Piracy: Notes on Software, Late Capitalism, and Technoscientific Modernity in India,

South Asian Studies talk, University of Toronto January 12 2007.

Producing Technoscientific Knowledge and Gendered Subjects,

Womens Studies talk, University of Toronto January 11 2007

Introduction to the history and philosophy of science and technology,

at the Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, Trivandrum, India, August 2006.

"Technoscience, Feminism, Transnational Analytics: Critical Convergences,

Department of Feminist Studies Seminar, UC Santa Cruz, Feb 23, 2006.

"Authors, Borders and the Political Economy of Technical Knowledge"

at Think Again: Exploring new work in feminist scholarship,"

Seminar organized by Duke University Womens Studies Program and the Simpson Center, University of Washington, Seattle (October 7-8, 2005).

Other Locations: Thinking Politically in Science and Technology Studies,

at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, August 17 2005.

Pirates, Authors, and Transnational Circuits of Technology,

at conference on Feminist and Queer Re-articulations of South Asian Studies, UC Davis, May 6-8, 2005.

Discussant, Expertise and the History of Science

panel presentation, South Asian Studies meeting, UC Berkeley, Feb 11, 2005.

"Techniques of Domination, Strategies of Resistance: Power, Agency, and Identity in the Historical Frame,

Roundtable presentation at Graduate student History and Theory conference, UC Irvine, January 15, 2005.

What is a Technological Author?

at Critical Legalities symposium on Genealogies of the Legal, UC Irvine, October 28, 2004.

A Dose of Rum and a few Rupees: Profits and Perils in Colonial Historiography of Science

at workshop on Science and Technology Studies in India, MIT, Nov 23 2003.

Panel discussant, "Constructing Tradition: The Politics of a Useable Past"

UC Irvine Graduate student History and Theory conference, November 1-2, 2003.

Keynote Lecture, Project in Industrial Environments,

Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis, October 8, 2002.

Globalization, Ecology, and War in South Asia,

panel presentation at The Global Womens History Project, April 25-28, 2002, Westfield State College, Westfield, MA

"Reading Media, Popular Culture, and Information Technology in a Global Age,"

invited paper presented at workshop in the History of Science, Princeton University, February 23, 2002

Technology and Racism,

live interview on CNN International Headline News, September 7, 2001

Environmentalism and Human Rights,

Georgia Tech WCAR Parallel Conference on Racism, September 4, 2001

Science, Nature, Globalization: Whats Feminism Got To Do With It? California State University Humboldt, April 12, 2001

Environmental Analysis in an Age of Globalization,

Agnes Scott College, February 27, 2001

Globalization in South Asia,

April 9, panel presentation at forum to mark Jubilee 2000 International Dump the Debt Day, Auburn Avenue Research Library, Atlanta.<

"Women in the Global Economy,"

Fourth Annual Social Justice Colloquium, California State University Monterey Bay, March 27, 2000

The Politics of Botanical Knowledge,"

South Asian Studies Program colloquium, University of Iowa, March 9, 2000

"Cultural Studies of Colonial Science: A case study from South India," SNDT University, Bombay, January 4, 2000.<

Panel Chair, Session 1.8,

International Conference on Digital Arts and Culture, Oct 29, 1999, Atlanta.

"The Global Politics of Biodiversity,"

School of Biology Colloquium, Georgia Tech, May 14 1999.

Panelist, Office of Diversity Issues and Programs 'Town Hall Meeting'

on Littleton, Colorado: Issues and Solutions, Georgia Tech, May 12, 1999.

Panelist, Forum on Women, Science, and Technology,

Emory University, April 24, 1999

"Plant "Biodiversity" and Property Rights in India,"

Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Special Seminar, Georgia Tech, February 1999.

"Reflections on Women in Science,"

Grinnell University symposium on Gender and Technology, March 1998.

Interview, WGUN (Atlanta talk show),

program on "Technology and Race," hosted by Kenneth Brown, December 1997.

Interview, WABE (Atlanta Public Radio)

program on "Race and Science," hosted by Marti Chitwood, March 1997.

"Science, Technology, and Race,"

talk to World History class, Clark Atlanta University, March 27, 1997.

"British Imperial Botany,"

paper delivered at the Center for Science and the Environment, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, August 1996.

"Methodological questions in environmental studies raised through the story of cinchona transplantation,"

paper presented to the Natural Resources and Forestry study group, University of California, Berkeley, August 1994.

Some Recent Conference Presentations

Tracing Transnational Flows of IT Knowledge Through Open Exchange of Software Development Know-How.

Susan Elliott Sim and Kavita Philip, at iFutures: Systems, Selves, Society [iConference 2008] UCLA Feb 28 March 1.

Technical Authorship: Refiguring the Designer-user Conflict and the Visioning of Collective Technical Futures.

Marisa Leavitt Cohn, Susan Elliott Sim and Kavita Philip, at iFutures: Systems, Selves, Society [iConference 2008] UCLA Feb 28 March 1.

STS In India: An Introduction to Themes,

at Technology, Governance, Citizenship workshop, Bangalore December 12, 13, 14 2007.

Emancipating technological subjects: Notes on Indias location in Transnational Information Technology Networks,

at Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Annual Meeting, October 11-13 2007, Montreal

Transnational Feminist Problematics in Discourses of Nature and Science,

co-written with Shubhra Gururani, at South Asian Studies Feminist Pre-conference, Madison, Wisconsin October 19, 2006

Feminist Transnational Science Studies

at 4S, Vancouver, November 2006

Gender, Science, History,

at World History Association annual meeting, Long Beach, CA, June 25, 2006.

The political economy of technological knowledge,

International Conference on New Global Workforces and Virtual Workplaces, August 12-13 2005, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore

Nature, Culture, Capital, Empire,

at Capitalism, Nature, Socialism conference, York University, Toronto, July 22-24, 2005.

Producing expert homogeneities in global ecologies, on the Political Ecology of Bio-commerce

panel at Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) / EASST meeting, Paris, August 25 28, 2004

Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) and Society for the History of Technology (SHOT), Joint Annual Meeting, Atlanta, October 16 19, 2003:

Paper presented: What Can the History of Colonial Science Tell Us About Globalizing STS?

on the panel, Science Studies World Effects: Rethinking the Transnational and the Postcolonial

Discussant, 4S Indian Science Between Traditionalism and Transnationalism / Society for History Of Technology Panel Mapping Technological Change in the Colonies

Chair, Society for History Of Technology Panel

Co-organizer, with Samer Alatout Race and Transnational Studies,

a stream of panels over 3 days in conjunction with 4S Program Committee; co-convener of 2003 planning meeting on the future of race and transnational studies in 4S.

Science, Technology, and the World: An Argument for Globalizing the Scope of S&TS,

at S&TS Connections conference, Cornell University, September 25-28 2003.

Nature as Private Property: Environmental Conflict, Globalization, and Intellectual Property Rights in Contemporary India,

Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis Seminar, December 10 2002.

Panel Discussant, State, Capital and Community: Transformations from/in South Asia,

American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., Nov 29-Dec 1, 2001.

Hacker Tourist as Neo-colonial Adventurer,

on the Gender and Science Studies panel at the Society for Social Studies of Science Annual Meeting, Cambridge, Mass, Nov 1-4, 2001.