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Recounts a technical writing institute presented by a delegation of North American technical communication faculty to Chinese English as a foreign language teachers. Discusses planning the 10-day technical writing institute; challenges and assumptions about teaching technical communication in China; institute lectures and activities; and institute evaluations. Offers concluding observations. (SR)

The Great Social Laboratory: Subjects of Knowledge in Colonial and Postcolonial Egypt Omnia El Shakry. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2007. Pp. xii, 328. ISBN 978-0-8047-5567-2. Through elaborately refashioned social [...]

This article discusses the case of radical black journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal, who is on death row in Pennsylvania for supposedly killing a policeman, questioning the political implications of his trial and his conviction. The protest of historians and other academics, addressed in a letter from the American Historical Association, is highlighted.

Colonial science can be seen as a kind of culture when the interwoven strands of nation, scientific progress, gender, class and race are analyzed. The archival records of Ootacamund, a British hill station in southern India during the Raj period, show how concerns about disease, labor, progress, agriculture and tribes are connected. Colonial science was part of the larger structure that formed a global political economy and a scientific epistemology.

When, in 1947, India became independent, its archetypal citizen-subject was the farmer; 60 years later it was the software engineer. Increasingly central, rather than marginal, in global economic networks, India’s popular image at the beginning of the twenty-first century is of a postcolonial nation that has successfully used technology to leapfrog over its historical legacy of underdevelopment. This shift in ideal citizen archetypes, from farmer to digital entrepreneur, has brought with it new assumptions about the role of information technology in shaping citizenly behaviour and nationalist subjectivity. This paper reads the contradictory aesthetics of this arrival by interrogating popular technological tropes. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

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Introduces a series of articles published in the Fall 2005 issue of "Radical History Review."

Focuses on ecological politics and neo-colonialism. Opposition to globalization; Relation between environment and history; Association between global political economy and environmental activism; Features of political economy in India.

Introduces several articles that focus on a variety of historical themes, times, places, topics and approaches which were featured in the Winter 2004 issue of the "Radical History Review."