Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction. Scientific Bonanzas: Infrastructures as Places of Knowledge Production | Eike-Christian Heine and Martin Meiske
  • Chapter 1. A Subversive Bonanza: The Construction of the Panama Canal, the Biomedical and Life Sciences, and the Birth of Tropical Ecology | Paul S. Sutter
  • Chapter 2. Exploring the Earth through Its Anthropogenic Scars: Geology and the Construction of the Panama Canal | Martin Meiske
  • Chapter 3. Hydropower and Dams: An Entangled History of Academic Engineers, Local Knowledge, and Environmental Features, 1880-1930 | Christian Zumbrägel
  • Chapter 4. Constructing Dams' Global Success Story: Knowledge Production, Staging, and Exchange in US American and Spanish Dam Building from the 1920s to the 1970s | Benjamin Brendel
  • Chapter 5. Autobahn and Archaeology: Intersections of Infrastructure, Knowledge, and Ideology during the Third Reich | Eike-Christian Heine
  • Chapter 6. "From the Stone Age into Socialism": Ethnographic Expertise and Sovietization at West Siberian Oil Deposits | Valentina Roxo
  • Chapter 7. Slaves to the Yield: Scientific Bonanza and Irrigation Megalomania in the Kuban River Basin | Timm Schönfelder
  • Chapter 8. NIMBY Bonanzas: European Infrastructures and Local Protest as System Building | Vincent Lagendijk
  • Chapter 9. Detour along the Way: Obstacles and Knowledge Production at the Ayalon Highway | Neta Feniger and Roy Kozlovsky
  • Chapter 10. Landing Strips and Penguins: Ecological Oppositions to the Scientific Exploration of Antarctica | Christian Kehrt
  • Notes
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Contributors
  • Index