Entangled Geographies : Empire and Technopolitics in the Global Cold War /

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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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Hecht, Gabrielle
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2011.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Technology > Political aspects.
Technology and state.
Geopolitics.
Decolonization.
HISTORY > Modern > 20th Century.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Colonialism & Post-Colonialism.
geopolitics.
Politique scientifique et technique.
Technologie > Aspect politique.
Geopolitique.
Decolonisation.
Guerre froide.
Cold War.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Gabrielle Hecht
  • Islands : the United States as a networked empire / Ruth Oldenziel
  • The uses of portability : circulating experts in the technopolitics of Cold War and decolonization / Donna Mehos and Suzanne Moon
  • On the fallacies of Cold War nostalgia : capitalism, 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 technopolitical lineage of state planning in Hungary, 1930-1956 / Martha Lampland
  • Fifty years' progress 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.

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