Article ID: CBB003143685

Technospatial Imaginaries: Masud Rana and the Vernacularization of Popular Cold War Geopolitics in East Pakistan, 1966–1971 (2015)

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The cold war in East Pakistan was intimately connected with nationalism and nation-building. One of the central aspects of such nation-building was the articulation of a new sense of national territoriality. Technology was central to these attempts to radically reimagine space. This is what I call technospatiality. Material, political and symbolic resources of the cold war were mobilized in the production of these new technospatialities. Popular cold war geopolitics engendered in cultural productions such as the James Bond films were creatively vernacularized to produce new, nationally useful technospatial imaginaries. In this article I look at how Kazi Anwar Hussain’s hugely successful spy-thrillers articulated this new technospatial imaginaries by drawing upon and reworking contemporary technopolitical objects, projects and anxieties.

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Authors & Contributors
Grise, Michelle Claire
Lindsay Caplan
Watson, Mark F.
Snyder, Timothy
Arnab Chakraborty
Zhang, Jiuchun
Concepts
Technology and politics
Nuclear weapons; atomic weapons
Cold War
India, civilization and culture
Technology and society
National security
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
20th century
19th century
20th century, early
18th century
Places
India
Pakistan
Bangladesh
China
Nepal
Sri Lanka
Institutions
East India Company (English)
Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station (India)
Pakistan Institute of Nuclear Science and Technology
Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (Trombay, Bombay
Atoms for Peace 1983 Washington, DC
World Health Organization (WHO)
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