ISBN:
9780226820378
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (368 p.)
,
8 halftones
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Knowledge flows in a global age
Keywords:
Wissenstransfer
;
Technologietransfer
;
Wissensmanagement
;
Informationsmanagement
;
International
;
Globalisierung
;
Welt
;
Diffusion of innovations History 20th century
;
Globalization
;
Technology and international relations History 20th century
;
Technology transfer Cross-cultural studies
;
Technology transfer History 20th century
;
SCIENCE / General
Abstract:
A transnational approach to understanding and analyzing knowledge circulation. Focusing on what happens to knowledge at national borders, rather than treating it as flowing like currents across them, or diffusing out from center to periphery, the contributors to this collection stress the human intervention that shapes and drives how knowledge is processed, mobilized, and repurposed in transnational transactions to serve differing and uneven interests, constraints, and environments. The chapters consider both what knowledge travels and how it travels across borders of varying permeability that impede or facilitate its movement. They look closely at a vast range of platforms and objects of knowledge, from tangible commodities—like hybrid wheat seeds, penicillin, Robusta coffee, naval weaponry, and high-performance computers—to the more conceptual apparatuses of telecommunications, statistics, and food sovereignty. Moreover, this volume decenters the Global North, tracking how knowledge moves along multiple paths across the borders of Mexico, India, Portugal, Guinea-Bissau, the Soviet Union, China, Angola, and Palestine and the West Bank, as well as the United States and United Kingdom. The variety of the kinds of knowledge addressed in the chapters brings forth an extraordinary array of state and non-state actors and institutions committed to performing the work needed to move knowledge across national borders
Note:
Frontmatter
,
Contents
,
Introduction: Writing the Transnational History of Knowledge Flows in a Global Age
,
Chapter One. Knowledge, State Power, and the Invention of International Science
,
Part I Regulating Transnational Knowledge Flows
,
Chapter Two. Harnessing Invention The British Admiralty and the Political Economy of Knowledge in the World War I Era
,
Chapter Three. Culture Diplomacy Penicillin and the Problem of Anglo-American Knowledge Sharing in World War II
,
Chapter Four. Dangerous Calculations: The Origins of the US High-Performance Computer Export Safeguards Regime, 1968–1974
,
Chapter Five. Regulating the Transnational Flow of Intangible Knowledge of Space Launchers between the United States and China in the Clinton Era
,
Part II Facilitating Transnational Knowledge Flows
,
Chapter Six. Beyond Borlaug’s Shadow: Mexican Seeds and the Narratives of the Green Revolution
,
Chapter Seven. Moving Coffee from the Forests of Colonial Angola to the Breakfast Tables of Main Street America, 1940–1961
,
Chapter Eight. Statistics and Emancipation from New Deal America to Guerrilla Warfare in Guinea-Bissau
,
Chapter Nine. Security versus Sovereignty in a Palestinian Seed Bank
,
Chapter Ten. How Data Cross Borders: Globalizing Plant Knowledge through Transnational Data Management and Its Epistemic Economy
,
Conclusion: Decentering the Global North
,
Acknowledgments
,
Contributors
,
Index
,
In English
Permalink
