Entangled geographies : empire and technopolitics in the global Cold War / edited by Gabrielle Hecht.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hecht, Gabrielle.

Series:

Inside technology.

Inside technology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cold War.

Decolonization.

Geopolitics.

Technology--Political aspects.

Technology.

Technology and state.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (348 p.)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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 techonpolitical 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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-14812-9

9786613148124

0-262-29571-7

OCLC:

738433349