Book ID: CBB001510130

The Surveillance Imperative: Geosciences during the Cold War and beyond (2014)

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Turchetti, Simone (Editor)
Roberts, Peder (Editor)


Palgrave Macmillan


Publication Date: 2014
Physical Details: xii + 276 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

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 and technology, with the existing scholarship focusing largely on cases of scientific espionage rather 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 imperative - that is, a conceptual link between the drives to know the enemy and to know the earth - offers a fruitful approach to the recent history of the earth sciences.

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Review Kristine C. Harper (2016) Review of "The Surveillance Imperative: Geosciences during the Cold War and beyond". British Journal for the History of Science (pp. 315-317). unapi

Includes Chapters

Chapter Adamson, Matthew; Camprubí, Lino; Turchetti, Simone (2014) From the Ground up: Uranium Surveillance and Atomic Energy in Western Europe. In: The Surveillance Imperative: Geosciences during the Cold War and beyond. unapi

Chapter Cantoni, Roberto; Veneer, Leucha (2014) Underground and Underwater: Oil Security in France and Britain during the Cold War. In: The Surveillance Imperative: Geosciences during the Cold War and beyond. unapi

Chapter Herran, Nèestor (2014) “Unscare” and Conceal: The United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation and the Origin of International Radiation Monitoring. In: The Surveillance Imperative: Geosciences during the Cold War and beyond. unapi

Chapter Turchetti, Simone (2014) “In God We Trust. All Others We Monitor”: Seismology, Surveillance and the Test Ban Negotiations. In: The Surveillance Imperative: Geosciences during the Cold War and beyond. unapi

Chapter Robinson, Sam (2014) Stormy Seas: Anglo-American Negotiations on Ocean Surveillance. In: The Surveillance Imperative: Geosciences during the Cold War and beyond. unapi

Chapter Roberts, Peder (2014) Scientists and Sea Ice under Surveillance in the Early Cold War. In: The Surveillance Imperative: Geosciences during the Cold War and beyond. unapi

Chapter Launius, Roger D. (2014) Space Technology and the Rise of the U.S. Surveillance State. In: The Surveillance Imperative: Geosciences during the Cold War and beyond. unapi

Chapter Grevsmühl, Sebastian Vincent (2014) Serendipitous Outcomes in Space History: From Space Photography to Environmental Surveillance. In: The Surveillance Imperative: Geosciences during the Cold War and beyond. unapi

Chapter Boudia, Soraya (2014) Observing the Environmental Turn through the Global Environment Monitoring System. In: The Surveillance Imperative: Geosciences during the Cold War and beyond. unapi

Chapter Poole, Robert (2014) What Was Whole about the Whole Earth? How the Earth Sciences Saw Their Subject during the Cold War and beyond. In: The Surveillance Imperative: Geosciences during the Cold War and beyond. unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Selcer, Perrin
Alessandra Landi
Giovanni Carrosio
Dienesch, Robert M.
Brandon Webb
Benjamin W. Goossen
Concepts
Science and politics
Cold War
Environmental sciences
Surveillance
Environmental history
Climate and climatology
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, late
21st century
20th century, early
Places
United States
Canada
West Germany
Polar regions
Germany
New Mexico (U.S.)
Institutions
United Nations
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
International Geophysical Year (IGY)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT
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