Science Goes Radical: Comparative and Transnational approaches in the history of Radical Science Movements

In recent years, the community of historians and sociologists of science has brought attention to the phenomenon of scientific militancy, that is, social movements related to scientific issues that are triggered by scientists themselves and, in some cases, also animated by scholars from the social sciences and humanities. The origins of these movements can be traced back to at least the 1930s when the debate about the so-called “social function of science” began to emerge thanks to Bernal and the broader wave of Bernalism.2