Periodic Reporting for period 1 - MISHA (Militant Science. European Physicists and the Emergence of Transnational Radical Science Movements)
Reporting period: 2022-01-01 to 2023-12-31
The project fills some important gaps in the existing critical literature on these issues: 1) MISHA provides an innovative historiographical reconstruction of the emergence and development of such RSMs (until now almost exclusively based on national case studies such as the UK or US instead of transnational connections); 2), it thoroughly examines some case studies that have been little studied despite their extreme relevance (such as the Italian case); and 3), it analyzes the theoretical-epistemological stances internal to these movements in order to understand their eventual political relevance (especially in the context of the neutrality/non-neutrality of scientific knowledge debate).
During the first 24 months, the MISHA project has already produced 2 monographs, 2 edited volumes, 5 special issues, 12 peer reviewed articles, 6 essays, 1 permanent seminar (4 total meetings at the moment); 4 organized conferences/symposia; 9 participations in international conferences and 3 invited lectures.
The action was also successful in terms of the researcher's career development: according to the project, a career plan was established (under the supervision of prof. Badino and Baldwin) at the beginning of the action and many of the goals were achieved earlier than planned. The main achievement in this regard was obtaining the Italian National Scientific Qualification (Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale - ASN) as associate professor for both the disciplinary fields of Logic, Philosophy and History of Science (11/C2) and General Sociology (14/C1). The ASN, in turn, increases the ER's potential to be considered for a tenured position, which is the ER's main long-term career goal. In this sense, therefore, the Action has been very successful, leading the ER to be both nationally and internationally recognized as a talented interdisciplinary researcher. More broadly, MISHA has enabled ER to establish even closer connections with the University of Maryland, the University of Manchester as well as with a wide range of institutions and universities with which Dr. Ienna has engaged in collaborations.