ISBN:
9780226820385
,
9780226819945
Language:
English
Pages:
361 Seiten
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Illustrationen
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Knowledge flows in a global age
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Knowledge flows in a global age
DDC:
338.9/26
Keywords:
Wissenstransfer
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Technologietransfer
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Wissensmanagement
;
Informationsmanagement
;
International
;
Globalisierung
;
Welt
;
Technology transfer History 20th century
;
Technology transfer Cross-cultural studies
;
Diffusion of innovations History 20th century
;
Technology and international relations History 20th century
;
Globalization
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Fallstudiensammlung
Abstract:
Introduction : Writing the transnational history of knowledge flows in a global age /John Krige --Knowledge, state power, and the invention of international science /Jessica Wang --Part I: Regulating transnational knowledge flows.Harnessing invention : the British Admiralty and the political economy of knowledge in the World War I era /Katherine C. Epstein --Culture diplomacy : penicillin and the problem of Anglo-American knowledge sharing in World War II /Michael A. Falcone --Dangerous calculations : the origins of the US high-performance computer export safeguards regime, 1968-1974 /Mario Daniels --Part II: Facilitating transnational knowledge flows.Beyond Borlaug's shadow : a Mexican seeds and the narratives of the Green Revolution /Gabriela Soto Lavenga --Moving coffee from the cloud forests of colonial Angola to the breakfast tables of main street America, 1940-1961 /Maria Gago --Statistics and emancipation from New Deal America to guerrilla warfare in Guinea-Bissau /Tiago Saraiva --Security versus sovereignty in a Palestinian seed bank /Courtney Fullilove --How data cross borders : globalizing plant knowledge through transnational data management and its epistemic economy /Sabrina Leonelli --Conclusion : decentering the global North /John Krige.
Abstract:
"Viewing knowledge as travelling between sites, rather than flowing like currents through them or diffusing out from them, the contributors to this collection stress the human intention which shapes and drives how knowledge is processed, mobilized, and repurposed 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. They home in on 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 in its focus, tracking how knowledge travels in all directions across the borders of Mexico, India, Portugal, Guinea-Bissau, the Soviet Union, China, Angola, and Palestine and the West Bank, as well as the US and the UK. The variety of kinds of knowledge that are 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:
Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.7208/chicago/9780226820378.001.0001
