Book ID: CBB524423162

Technocratic Visions: Engineers, Technology, and Society in Mexico (2022)

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Castro, Joseph Justin (Editor)
Garza, James A. (Editor)


University of Pittsburgh Press


Publication Date: 2022
Edition Details: TABLE OF CONTENTS: INTRODUCTION. Engineering and Technocratic Visions in Mexico 3 J. JUSTIN CASTRO CHAPTER 1. Poetry in Stone and Iron: The Architect Emilio Dondé Preciat and the Construction of Modern Mexico City 21 MARCELA SALDAÑA SOLÍS CHAPTER 2. Revelations from Rediscovered Artifacts of the National School of Engineers’ Construction Materials Collection 39 LUCERO MORELOS RODRÍQUEZ AND FRANCISCO OMAR ESCAMILLA GONZÁLEZ CHAPTER 3. Engineering the Porfirian Landscape: Technology and Social Change in the Basin of Mexico, 1890–1911 57 JAMES A. GARZA CHAPTER 4. The Preoccupation with Safety: Mining Engineers, Education, and Practice in Modern Mexico 74 ROCIO GOMEZ vi CHAPTER 5. Revolutionary Technoscience: Science, Industry, Education, and the Mexican State, 1910–1946 90 JUAN JOSÉ SALDAÑA CHAPTER 6. Technocratic Diplomacy: Constitutionalist Engineers as Diplomats to the United States 113 J. JUSTIN CASTRO CHAPTER 7. Punitive Engineering and Military Modernization: Reform, Revolution, and Reconstruction in Mexico and the United States, 1916–1924 134 JAYSON MAURICE PORTER CHAPTER 8. Flying Machines as a Measure of Mexico: National Reconstruction, the Cultural Revolution, and the Maturation of Mexico’s National Aviation Program, 1921–1945 157 PETE SOLAND CHAPTER 9. A Social History of Urban Expertise: Between Technobureaucratic Rule and the Right to the City in Twentieth- Century Mexico 181 MATTHEW VITZ. 205
Language: English

Technocratic Visions examines the context and societal consequences of technologies, technocratic governance, and development in Mexico, home of the first professional engineering school in the Americas. Contributors focus on the influential role of engineers, especially civil engineers, but also mining engineers, military engineers, architects, and other infrastructural and mechanical technicians. During the mid-nineteenth century, a period of immense upheaval and change domestically and globally, troubled governments attempted to expand and modernize Mexico’s engineering programs while resisting foreign invasion and adapting new Western technologies to existing precolonial and colonial foundations. The Mexican Revolution in 1910 greatly expanded technocratic practices as state agents attempted to control popular unrest and unify disparate communities via science, education, and infrastructure. Within this backdrop of political unrest, Technocratic Visions describes engineering sites as places both praised and protested, where personal, local, national, and global interests combined into new forms of societal creation; and as places that became centers of contests over representation, health, identity, and power. With an eye on contextualizing current problems stemming from Mexico’s historical development, this volume reveals how these transformations were uniquely Mexican and thoroughly global.

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Authors & Contributors
Castro, Joseph Justin
Anton F. Guhl
Pereira, Hugo Silveira
Wolfram, Kaiser
Darling, Linda T.
J. W., Schot
Concepts
Technology and politics
Modernization
Mexican Revolution (1910–1920)
Technology and society
Technocracy
Engineering
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
20th century
Places
Mexico
Portugal
Anatolia (Turkey)
Toronto (Ontario)
London (England)
Americas
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