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'''Brian Martin''' (born 1947) teaches in the interdisciplinary area of [[Science, technology, and society]] at the [[University of Wollongong]] in [[Australia]], where he became a professor in 2007.<ref name=BMartin>[http://www.bmartin.cc/others/cv.html Martin's curriculum vitae], University of Wollongong (downloaded 27. November 2011)</ref> He was president of [[Whistleblowers Australia]] from 1996 to 1999 and remains their International Director.

==Background==
Martin was born in Gary, Indiana, [[USA]], although grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He took an undergraduate degree at [[Rice University]] from 1965–1969. He left the US primarily to avoid the military draft during the Vietnam War, settling in Sydney where he received his PhD (in [[theoretical physics]])<ref name="fp">{{cite book | last=Martin|first=Brian| title=Strip The Experts |chapter=About the Author | publisher=[[Freedom Press]]| year=1991|isbn=0-900384-63-8}}</ref> from the [[University of Sydney]] in 1976.<ref name=BMartin/><ref>http://www.bmartin.cc/pubs/90uw/uw14.html</ref> He also became more concerned about injustice, and joined activist organizations; he has established, and been a part of, several campaigns and organisations. He subsequently worked at the [[Australian National University]] as an applied mathematician before his position was terminated, and became a lecturer at the University of Wollongong in 1986. By then he had started to work on social issues surrounding scientific investigation.<ref name="fp" />

==Scholarly contributions==
The central theme in Martin's research is the dynamics of [[Power (sociology)|power]], with special attention to strategies for challenging repression and exploitation. He has explored power dynamics through an interplay of theory and case studies, including [[nonviolent action]], technological vulnerability, values in science, environmental politics, institutional roots of war, [[dissent]] and [[scientific controversies]]. His backfire model is a framework for understanding tactics used by perpetrators of injustice, as well as providing various means for resisting these tactics. <ref> See list of publications on backfire at: http://www.bmartin.cc/pubs/backfire.html </ref>

Martin is the author of 15 books<ref>[http://www.bmartin.cc/pubs/index.html Brian Martin: books and booklets] (downloaded 27. November 2011)</ref> and over 200 major papers and chapters.<ref name=BMartin/> His choice of research topic and perspective is individualistic, and ranges widely. Unlike his books, many of his articles are published in unusual locations including activist magazines and online journals. In wider public life, he has spoken at a [[British Science Association]] Festival of Science,<ref>{{cite web|title =Science needs its whistleblowers |publisher=BBC|last=Murcott|first=Toby |url =http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/sci_tech/2000/festival_of_science/919572.stm |date=11 September 2000 | accessdate =29 January 2010}}</ref> broadcast on the [[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]]<ref>{{cite web|title =Perspective: Whistleblowers and Iraq |publisher=ABC|url =http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/perspective/stories/s1101634.htm |date=10 May 2004 | accessdate =29 January 2010}}</ref> and testified at the [[Australian Senate]]'s Inquiry into Academic Freedom.<ref>{{cite web|title =Inquiry into Academic Freedom Public Hearing - Sydney, Thursday 9 October 2008 |publisher=Parliament of Australia Senate |url =http://www.aph.gov.au/SENATE/committee/eet_ctte/academic_freedom/hearings/091008.htm|date=9 October 2008 | accessdate =29 January 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title =Monoculture is killing thought |last=Devine| first=Miranda |publisher=Brisbane Times |url =http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/news/opinion/monoculture-is-killing-thought/2008/12/03/1228257139381.html |date=4 December 2008 | accessdate =29 January 2010}}</ref>

As a social scientist interested in the dynamics and politics of controversy, Martin attempts to not take sides, while recognizing the myth of the neutral observer. <ref>{{cite web|title =Captives of Controversy: The Myth of the Neutral Social Researcher in Contemporary Scientific Controversies |publisher=Science, Technology, & Human Values |last1=Scott|first1=Pam |last2=Richards|first2=Evelleen |last3=Martin|first3=Brian |url =https://www.uow.edu.au/~bmartin/pubs/90sthv.html |date=Fall 1990 |accessdate=4 January 2015}}</ref> The controversies Martin has studied include: [[nuclear power]], [[fluoridation]], [[pesticides]], [[nuclear winter]], the origins of [[AIDS]], [[euthanasia]], and [[vaccination]]. <ref> See list of publications on these issues at: http://www.bmartin.cc/pubs/controversy.html </ref>

Martin's earlier scientific work was in stratospheric modelling and numerical methods; [[astrophysics]]; and [[wind power]] and electricity grids.<ref name=BMartin/>

==Books==
* ''[http://www.bmartin.cc/pubs/15nvu/15nvu-print.pdf Nonviolence unbound]''(Sparsnäs, Sweden: Irene Publishing, 2015).
* ''[http://www.bmartin.cc/pubs/14cm/14cm.pdf The Controversy Manual]'' (Sparsnäs, Sweden: Irene Publishing, 2014).
* [http://www.bmartin.cc/pubs/11gt/index.html ''Doing Good Things Better''] (Sparsnäs, Sweden: Irene Publishing, 2011)
*[http://www.bmartin.cc/pubs/07ji/index.html ''Justice Ignited: The Dynamics of Backfire''], (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007).
*(with Wendy Varney). [http://www.bmartin.cc/pubs/03nvs/index.html ''Nonviolence Speaks: Communicating against Repression''], (Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2003).
*[http://www.uow.edu.au/arts/sts/bmartin/pubs/01nvc/ ''Nonviolence versus capitalism''] (London: War Resisters' International, 2001).
*[http://www.uow.edu.au/arts/sts/bmartin/pubs/01tnvs/ ''Technology for Nonviolent Struggle''], (London: War Resisters' International, 2001).
*(with Lyn Carson). [http://www.bmartin.cc/pubs/99rsip.pdf ''Random Selection in Politics''], (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1999).
*''The Whistleblower's Handbook: How to Be an Effective Resister'', (Charlbury, UK: Jon Carpenter; Sydney: Envirobook, 1999). Updated and republished 2013 as [http://www.bmartin.cc/pubs/13wb.html ''Whistleblowing: a practical guide''], Sparsnäs, Sweden: Irene Publishing)
* (ed.) [http://www.bmartin.cc/pubs/99tpp/index.html ''Technology and Public Participation''] (University of Wollongong, 1999)
*[http://www.uow.edu.au/arts/sts/bmartin/pubs/98il/ ''Information Liberation''], (London: Freedom Press, 1998).
* [http://www.bmartin.cc/pubs/98tk/ ''Tied Knowledge: Power in Higher Education''] (self-published)
*[http://www.uow.edu.au/arts/sts/bmartin/dissent/documents/ss/ ''Suppression Stories''], (Wollongong: Fund for Intellectual Dissent, 1997).
* [http://www.bmartin.cc/pubs/93sdsc/ ''Social Defence, Social Change''] (London: Freedom Press, 1993)
*[http://www.bmartin.cc/pubs/91skic.html ''Scientific Knowledge in Controversy: The Social Dynamics of the Fluoridation Debate''] (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1991)
*[http://www.bmartin.cc/pubs/90uw/ ''Uprooting war''] (London: Freedom Press, 1984).
*''The Bias of Science'' (Society for Social Responsibility in Science, 1979)<ref>{{cite book|title =The Bias of Science |publisher=Google |url =http://books.google.com/books?id=4zsfAQAAIAAJ&q=The+Bias+of+Science&dq=The+Bias+of+Science&cd=1 |year=1979 | accessdate =28 January 2010|isbn =9780909509132}}</ref> ISBN 0-909509-13-1

==Journal articles in the physical sciences==
His most cited papers are:
*{{cite journal |first1=Brian |last1=Davies |first2=Brian |last2=Martin |title=Numerical inversion of the Laplace transform: a survey and comparison of methods |journal=Journal of Computational Physics |volume=33 |issue=1 |pages=1–32 |date=October 1979 |url=http://www.bmartin.cc/pubs/79jcp.pdf |format=PDF |bibcode=1979JCoPh..33....1D |doi=10.1016/0021-9991(79)90025-1}} (cited over 470 times)
* Wickramasinghe, D.T. and Martin, B. (1979) "Magnetic DA White Dwarfs" [[Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society]] Volume 188, Issue 1. pp.165-180.

==Other Journal articles (selection)==
*{{cite journal |first=Brian |last=Martin |title=The globalisation of scientific controversy |journal=Globalization |volume=7 |issue=1 |pages=online |date=2008 |url=http://globalization.icaap.org/content/v7.1/Martin.html}}
*{{cite journal |last1=Scott|first1=Pam |last2=Richards|first2=E. |last3=Martin|first3=B. |title=Captives of Controversy: The Myth of the Neutral Social Researcher in Contemporary Scientific Controversies |journal=Science, Technology, & Human Values |volume=15 |issue=4 |pages=474–494 |date=Fall 1990 |doi= 10.1177/016224399001500406|url=http://www.bmartin.cc/pubs/90sthv.html}}
*{{cite journal |first1=David |last1=Hess |first2=Brian |last2=Martin |title=Repression, backfire, and the theory of transformative events |journal=Mobilization |volume=11 |issue=1 |pages=249–267 |date=June 2006 |doi= |url=http://www.bmartin.cc/pubs/06mobilization.html}}
*{{cite journal |first1=Brian |last1=Martin |title=The selective usefulness of game theory |journal=Social Studies of Science |volume=8 |issue= |pages=85–110 |year=1978 |doi= 10.1177/030631277800800103|url=http://www.bmartin.cc/pubs/78sss.html}}
*{{cite journal |first1=Juan Miguel |last1=Campanario |first2=Brian |last2=Martin |title=Challenging dominant physics paradigms |journal=Journal of Scientific Exploration |volume=18 |issue=3 |pages=421–438 |date=Fall 2004 |doi= |url=http://www.uow.edu.au/~bmartin/pubs/04jse.html |bibcode=2008atcr.book...11C }}

== References ==
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==External links==
{{Portal|Australia}}
* [http://www.uow.edu.au/~bmartin/ Brian Martin], University of Wollongong
* [http://www.bmartin.cc/pubs/ Publications] with Brian Martin's topic pages [http://www.bmartin.cc/dissent/ Dissent], [http://www.uow.edu.au/~bmartin/pubs/86spp.html Nuclear Suppression], [http://www.bmartin.cc/others/SAW.html Schweik Action Wollongong]
* [http://www.radio4all.net/index.php?op=program-info&program_id=21131 Audio File of Brian Martin's "''Democracy Without Elections''"]
*[http://www.whistleblowers.org.au/ Whistleblowers Australia]

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