Entangled geographies : empire and technopolitics in the global Cold War /
edited by Gabrielle Hecht.
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2011.
- viii, 337 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
- Inside technology .
- Inside technology. .
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.
Cold War. Decolonization. Geopolitics. Technology--Political aspects. Technology and state. Guerra fría. Geopolítica. Tecnología--Aspectos políticos. Filosofía de la tecnología.