The surveillance imperative : geosciences during the Cold War and beyond / edited by Simone Turchetti and Peder Roberts.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Turchetti, Simone, author, editor.

Roberts, Peder, author, editor.

Series:

Palgrave studies in the history of science and technology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental monitoring--History--20th century.

Environmental monitoring.

Earth sciences--History--20th century.

Earth sciences.

Electronic surveillance--History--20th century.

Electronic surveillance.

Military surveillance--History--20th century.

Military surveillance.

Space surveillance--History--20th century.

Space surveillance.

Cold War.

History.

Physical Description:

xii, 278 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Summary:

From Michel Foucault's early studies on penitentiaries to analyses of security policies after 9/11, surveillance has become a key notion for understanding power and control in the modern world. Curiously, though, the concept has thus far received limited application within the history of science than the practices of scientists. Using the overarching concept of the "surveillance imperative," this collection of essays offers a new window on the evolution of the environmental sciences during and after the Cold War. Collectively, these contributions argue that the surveillance sciences during and after the Cold War. Collectively, these contributions argue that the surveillance - is, a conceptual link between the drives to know the enemy and to know the - a fruitful approach to the recent history of the earth sciences. Book jacket.

Contents:

From the ground up : uranium surveillance and atomic energy in Western Europe / Matthew Adamson, Lino Camprubì and Simone Turchetti

Underground and underwater : oil security in France and Britain during the cold War / Roberto Cantoni and Leucha Veneer

"Unscare" and conceal : the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation and the origin of international radiation monitoring / Nestor Herran

"In God we trust. All others we monitor" : seismology, surveillance and the test ban negotiations / Simone Turchetti

Stormy seas : Anglo-American negotiations on ocean surveillance / Sam Robinson

Scientists and sea ice under surveillance in the early Cold War / Peder Roberts

Space technology and the rise of the U.S. surveillance state / Roger D. Launius

Serendipitous outcomes in space history : from space photography to environmental surveillance / Sebastian Vincent Grevsmühl

Observing the environmental turn through the global environment monitoring system / Soraya Boudia

What was whole about the whole earth? : how the earth sciences saw their subject during the Cold War and beyond / Robert Poole.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-263) and index.

ISBN:

9781137438720

113743872X

OCLC:

894027674