In 2007 I published Alternative Pathways in Science and Industry, which contributed to theories of globalization, social movements, and science, technology, and society. The book analyzes alternative research programs (or alternative pathways) within the scientific field, and it also examines oppositional, pro-alternative, localist, and access pathways in five industries. is listed below.
In 2009 I will publish Localist Movements in a Global Economy: Sustainability, Justice, and Urban Development in the United States (MIT Press). This book examines the social and environmental aspects of the "localist movement" of advocacy for increased local ownership, such as in "buy local" campaigns.
Selected Publications and Papers
Forthcoming "A Political Economy of Sustainability: Alternative Pathways and Industrial Innovation," in Steven Moore, Transdisciplinary Nature: Perspectives on Sustainable Design and Development, Island Press.
2008 "Localism and the Environment." Sociology Compass 2(2): 625-628. .
2008 "Some Ways in to Research on Locally Owned, Independent Businesses." This is a bibliography for a talk that I gave at Capital District Local First. Here.
2007 Alternative Pathways in Science and Industry: Activism, Innovation, and the Environment in an Era of Globalization. MIT Press.
2007 “Enhancing Justice and Sustainability at the Local Level: Affordable Policies for Urban Governments.” By David Hess and Langdon Winner. Local Environment 12(4): 1-17. Langdon Winner and I worked on an NSF-sponsored research project on sustainability, the politics of design, and localism. For more information on the research project, click here.
2007 “What is a Clean Bus? Object Conflicts in the Greening of Urban Transit.” Sustainability: Science, Practice, and Policy 3(1): 45- 58. PDF file here.
2006 “The University and Sustainable Regional Industries.” In Christopher Nelson, The River-Farm Conversations, Virginia Tech Press.
2006 "Community Choice, Public Power, and Energy Conservation: Democracy, Sustainable Consumption, and the Problem of Scale." Paper presented at the RC-24 Conference on Sustainable Consumption. Available at www.michaelmbell.net/suscon-papers/hess-paper.doc.
2005 "Technology- and Product-Oriented Movements: Approximating Social Movement Studies and STS." Science, Technology, and Human Values. 30(4): 515-535.
2004 Editor of special issue of Science as Culture on "Health, the Environment, and Social Movements," published in December 2004 (13/4). Includes "Object Conflicts in a Health-Environmental Social Movement: The Movement for Organic Food and Agriculture in the U.S."
2004 Organized a conference on Science, Technology, and the Environment . Details here.
2001 Alternative Pathways in Globalization, Vol. 1. This was an electronic preprint of the first section of what became Alternative Pathways in Science and Industry.