Article ID: CBB000670753

Meteorology as Infrastructural Globalism (2006)

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Edwards, Paul N. (Author)


Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Volume: 21
Pages: 229--250


Publication Date: 2006
Edition Details: Volume title: Global Power Knowledge: Science and Technology in International Affairs
Language: English

This chapter explores the history of a global governance institution, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), from its nineteenth-century origins through the beginnings of a planetary meteorological observing network, the WMO's World Weather Watch (WWW), in the 1960s. This history illustrates a profoundly important transition from voluntarist internationalism, based on shared interests, to quasi-obligatory globalism, based on a more permanent shared infrastructure. The WMO and the WWW thus represent infrastructural globalism, by which "the world" as a whole is produced and maintained (as both object of knowledge and unified arena of human action) through global infrastructures.

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Description On the history of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) from the19th century to the 1960s.


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Article Krige, John; Barth, Kai-Henrik (2006) Introduction: Science, Technology, and International Affairs. Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 1). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Wicken, Olaf
Parolini, Giuditta
Schrimpf, Andreas
Giuntini, Andrea
Carreras, Albert
Tjossem, Sara
Concepts
International cooperation
Societies; institutions; academies
Meteorology
Cross-national interaction
Scientific communities; interprofessional relations
Public health
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
18th century
Places
United States
Europe
Great Britain
Cuba
Pacific Ocean
Sweden
Institutions
Kew Observatory
Royal Meteorological Society (Great Britain)
International Polar Year (1882-1883)
American Public Health Association
World Health Organization (WHO)
Zoological Society of London
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