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S. academia. While he would place activist research in the lower right-hand cell, as a variant on his category of “public knowledge” (see Figure 1), the authors in this volume would probably hold out for a reformulation of the diagram that would portray activist research more as a largely suppressed alternative mode of knowledge production all its own (see Figure 2). In any case, Buroway’s broader point resonates with the cumulative argument of this volume. Every author has had mainstream academic training, enhanced by political experience and commitments, as well as critical nonacademic intellectual traditions.

The name varied considerably over the program’s fifteen-year history. “International Peace and Security,” and “Conflict, Peace and Social Transforma- Introduction / 27 tion” are two others that appear in my notes. To my knowledge a comprehensive analysis of this important and fascinating bid to transform “security studies” has never been published. 3. See, for example, the entry “Positivism” in the International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences (Sills 1968, 12:389–95). 4. See also Fox and Field (2007), Lassiter (2005), and Sanford and Ajani (2006).

Activist scholars, in our training and our ongoing efforts to fulfill our method’s promise, can make good use of the distinctive modes of knowledge production that universities encompass. S. academia. While he would place activist research in the lower right-hand cell, as a variant on his category of “public knowledge” (see Figure 1), the authors in this volume would probably hold out for a reformulation of the diagram that would portray activist research more as a largely suppressed alternative mode of knowledge production all its own (see Figure 2).