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Entangled geographies : empire and technopolitics in the global Cold War / edited by Gabrielle Hecht.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Inside technologyPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2011.Description: viii, 337 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780262515788 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0262515784 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 325.309045
LOC classification:
  • D 843 E61 2011
Contents:
Introduction / Gabrielle Hecht -- Islands : the United States as a networked empire / Ruth Oldenziel -- The uses of portablility : circulating experts in the technopolitics of Cold War and decoloniztion / Donna Mehos and Suzanne Moon -- On the fallacies of Cold War nostalgia : captialism, colonialism, and South African nuclear geographies / Gabrielle Hecht -- Rare earths : the Cold War in the annals of travancore / Itty Abraham -- Nuclear colonization? : Soviet technopolitics in the second world / Sonja D. Schmid -- The techonpolitical lineage of state planning in Hungary, 1930-1956 / Martha Lampland -- Fifty years' progess in five : Brasilia -modernization, globalism, and the geopolitics of flight / Lars Denicke -- Crude ecology : technology and the politics of dissent in Saudi Arabia / Toby C. Jones -- A plundering tiger with its deadly cubs? The USSR and China as weapons in the engineering of a 'Zimbabwean Nation," 1945-2009 / Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga -- Cleaning up the Cold War : global humanitarianism and the infrastructure of crisis response / Peter Redfield.
Summary: This work explores how Cold War politics, imperialism, and postcolonial nation building became entangled in technologies and considers the legacies of those entanglements for today's globalized world.
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Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Recursos Regionales Recursos Regionales (2do. Piso) D 843 E61 2011 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 1 Available 00000117430

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Gabrielle Hecht -- Islands : the United States as a networked empire / Ruth Oldenziel -- The uses of portablility : circulating experts in the technopolitics of Cold War and decoloniztion / Donna Mehos and Suzanne Moon -- On the fallacies of Cold War nostalgia : captialism, colonialism, and South African nuclear geographies / Gabrielle Hecht -- Rare earths : the Cold War in the annals of travancore / Itty Abraham -- Nuclear colonization? : Soviet technopolitics in the second world / Sonja D. Schmid -- The techonpolitical lineage of state planning in Hungary, 1930-1956 / Martha Lampland -- Fifty years' progess in five : Brasilia -modernization, globalism, and the geopolitics of flight / Lars Denicke -- Crude ecology : technology and the politics of dissent in Saudi Arabia / Toby C. Jones -- A plundering tiger with its deadly cubs? The USSR and China as weapons in the engineering of a 'Zimbabwean Nation," 1945-2009 / Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga -- Cleaning up the Cold War : global humanitarianism and the infrastructure of crisis response / Peter Redfield.

This work explores how Cold War politics, imperialism, and postcolonial nation building became entangled in technologies and considers the legacies of those entanglements for today's globalized world.

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