TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hecht,Gabrielle
TI  - Entangled geographies: empire and technopolitics in the global Cold War 
T2  - Inside technology
SN  - 9780262515788 (pbk. : alk. paper)
AV  - D 843 E61 2011
U1  - 325.309045 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - MIT Press
KW  - Cold War
KW  - Decolonization
KW  - Geopolitics
KW  - Technology
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Technology and state
KW  - Guerra fría
KW  - Geopolítica
KW  - Tecnología
KW  - Aspectos políticos
KW  - Filosofía de la tecnología
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -