Studies in Unauthorized Reproduction: The Pirate Function and Decolonization, Kavita Philip (under contract, MIT Press, Infrastructures series)
Your Computer Is On Fire (MIT Press 2021). Co-Editors: Tom Mullaney, Mar Hicks, Benjamin Peters, Kavita Philip
Tactical Biopolitics: Art, Activism, and Technoscience, Co-Editors: B. da Costa and K. Philip, (MIT Press, 2008)
Constructing Human Rights in the Age of Globalization, Co-Editors: Mahmood Monshipouri, Neil Englehart, Andrew Nathan, Kavita Philip, (M. E. Sharpe, 2003)
Civilising Natures: Race, Resources and Modernity in Colonial South India, Kavita Philip (Rutgers University Press 2003, Orient Longman 2004)
Homeland Securities, K. Philip, D. Serlin, E. Reilly, editors, Radical History Review (Durham: Duke University Press), Issue 93 Fall 2005. “Best Special Issue” of 2005, Council of Editors of Learned Journals.
Multiple Contentions, K. Philip and Andor Skotnes, editors, Radical History Review (Durham: Duke University Press), Issue 88, Winter 2004
Development and the Global South
Copyright law and the Global South. Conversations with Carl Sagan on science and Perry Anderson on Indian historical ideologies. Cautionary tales for India's technological future.
Technology Studies
What is a technological author? What does postcolonialism have to do with technopolitics? How did piracy help make software global? What is postcolonial computing? What's the matter with design and how do we decolonize information? What was the Y2K bug? Why are clean computational futures haunted by dirty colonial tropes?
Environmental History, Law, Politics
The Anthropocene, environmental human rights, and Indian environmentalisms; Why should environmental history matter to green activism, and vice versa? How do we work at the intersections of art, science, environment, and global politics? Also, learning from the 2004 Christmas Tsunami
Speculative Histories
In collaboration, we (science fiction writers and historians) challenge historiographic and literary frames that saw the European Enlightenment as the origin of modern science, and the ‘developing world’ as destined to play catch-up. Shaped by long histories of artistic and critical conversations, images today are being used in ways that extend and complicate our interdisciplinary scholarly methods.