Book ID: CBB001251047

Entangled Geographies: Empire and Technopolitics in the Global Cold War (2011)

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Hecht, Gabrielle (Editor)


MIT Press


Publication Date: 2011
Physical Details: viii + 337 pp.; ill.; maps; index; bibl.
Language: English

The Cold War was not simply a duel of superpowers. It took place not just in Washington and Moscow but also in the social and political arenas of geographically far-flung countries emerging from colonial rule. Moreover, Cold War tensions were manifest not only in global political disputes but also in struggles over technology. Technological systems and expertise offered a powerful way to shape countries politically, economically, socially, and culturally. Entangled Geographies 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. The essays address such topics as the islands and atolls taken over for military and technological purposes by the supposedly non-imperial United States, apartheid-era South Africa's efforts to achieve international legitimacy as a nuclear nation, international technical assistance and Cold War politics, the Saudi irrigation system that spurred a Shi'i rebellion, and the momentary technopolitics of emergency as practiced by Medecins sans Frontières. The contributors to Entangled Geographies offer insights from the anthropology and history of development, from diplomatic history, and from science and technology studies. The book represents a unique synthesis of these three disciplines, providing new perspectives on the global Cold War.

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Reviewed By

Review Mats Fridlund (2014) Review of "Entangled Geographies: Empire and Technopolitics in the Global Cold War". Icon: Journal of the International Committee for the History of Technology (pp. 173-174). unapi

Review Farish, Matthew (2012) Review of "Entangled Geographies: Empire and Technopolitics in the Global Cold War". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 805-806). unapi

Review Sarkar, Jayita (2013) Review of "Entangled Geographies: Empire and Technopolitics in the Global Cold War". British Journal for the History of Science (pp. 354-355). unapi

Essay Review Siddiqi, Asif (2013) Where and When was the Cold War?. Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (pp. 513-516). unapi

Includes Chapters

Chapter Oldenziel, Ruth (2011) Islands: The United States as a Networked Empire. In: Entangled Geographies: Empire and Technopolitics in the Global Cold War (p. 13). unapi

Chapter Mehos, Donna; Moon, Suzanne (2011) The Uses of Portability: Circulating Experts in the Technopolitics of Cold War and Decolonization. In: Entangled Geographies: Empire and Technopolitics in the Global Cold War (p. 43). unapi

Chapter Hecht, Gabrielle (2011) On the Fallacies of Cold War Nostalgia: Capitalism, Colonialism, and South African Nuclear Geographies. In: Entangled Geographies: Empire and Technopolitics in the Global Cold War (p. 75). unapi

Chapter Abraham, Itty (2011) Rare Earths: The Cold War in the Annals of Travancore. In: Entangled Geographies: Empire and Technopolitics in the Global Cold War (p. 101). unapi

Chapter Schmid, Sonja D. (2011) Nuclear Colonization? Soviet Technopolitics in the Second World. In: Entangled Geographies: Empire and Technopolitics in the Global Cold War (p. 125). unapi

Chapter Lampland, Martha (2011) The Technopolitical Lineage of State Planning in Hungary, 1930--1956. In: Entangled Geographies: Empire and Technopolitics in the Global Cold War (p. 155). unapi

Chapter Denicke, Lars (2011) Fifty Years' Progress in Five: Brasilia---Modernization, Globalism, and the Geopolitics of Flight. In: Entangled Geographies: Empire and Technopolitics in the Global Cold War (p. 185). unapi

Chapter Jones, Toby C. (2011) Crude Ecology: Technology and the Politics of Dissent in Saudi Arabia. In: Entangled Geographies: Empire and Technopolitics in the Global Cold War (p. 209). unapi

Chapter Mavhunga, Clapperton Chakanetsa (2011) A Plundering Tiger with Its Deadly Cubs? The USSR and China as Weapons in the Engineering of a “Zimbabwean Nation,” 1945--2009. In: Entangled Geographies: Empire and Technopolitics in the Global Cold War (p. 231). unapi

Chapter Redfield, Peter (2011) Cleaning Up the Cold War: Global Humanitarianism and the Infrastructure of Crisis Response. In: Entangled Geographies: Empire and Technopolitics in the Global Cold War (p. 267). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Hecht, Gabrielle
Susan Colbourn
Maar, Henry Richard, III
Nikolas Dörr
Zhang, Jiuchun
Zhang, Baichin
Concepts
Cold War
Technology and politics
Nuclear weapons; atomic weapons
Technology
Nuclear industry
Technology and war; technology and the military
Time Periods
20th century, late
20th century
Places
United States
Soviet Union
South Africa
Russia
China
Saudi Arabia
Institutions
KGB
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
United States. Atomic Energy Commission
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