IsisCB Explore

Article ID: CBB944293406

Transnational development training and Native American ‘laboratories’ in the early Cold War (2018)

Journal of Global History
Volume: 13
Issue: 3
Pages: 469-490
Publication date: 2018
Language: English

URI: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-global-history/article/transnational-development-training-and-native-american-laboratories-in-the-early-cold-war/489DF1826B594447E361369724397555

DOI: 10.1017/S1740022818000244

Outside Links

WorldCat

Google Scholar

JSTOR

Technical assistance Economic development Education Social sciences American Indians; Native Americans; First Nations of the Americas Global history 20th century United States Cornell University

In the late 1940s and early 1950s, as the US launched the Point Four initiative of overseas technical assistance programmes, a number of American officials, academics, and analysts saw valuable global lessons in the US Bureau of Indian Affairs’ development interventions among Native Americans. These interests culminated in a suite of professional training experiments, involving trainees from around the world, which emphasized cross-cultural development methods and used certain south-western Native American communities as field ‘laboratories’. A foundational seminar programme, coordinated by Cornell University social scientists, inspired additional training initiatives, tied to Point Four projects abroad, which brought foreign government officers from South Asia and the Middle East for similar training in New Mexico and Arizona. These training experiments not only placed Native American situations at the centre of significant transnational conversations about development, but also reinforced and widely circulated particular ideas regarding ‘underdevelopment’, ‘experts” prerogatives, and the politics of development relations.

...More

Citation URI

data.isiscb.org/p/isis/citation/CBB944293406

This citation is part of the Isis database.

Citations Indexes

Similar Citations

Article Pribilsky, Jason; (2009)
Development and the “Indian Problem” in the Cold War Andes: Indigenismo, Science, and Modernization in the Making of the Cornell-Peru Project at Vicos (/p/isis/citation/CBB001231510/)

Article Gisela Mateos; Edna Suárez-Díaz; (2020)
Creating the need in Mexico: The IAEA’s technical assistance programs for less developed countries (1958-68) (/p/isis/citation/CBB486458390/)

Book Sara Lorenzini; (2019)
Global Development: A Cold War History (/p/isis/citation/CBB748985654/)

Thesis Lleras-Muney, Adriana; (2001)
The relationship between education and mortality: An analysis for the United States using a unique social experiment (/p/isis/citation/CBB001562578/)

Article Austin R. Cooper; (2022)
The Tunisian request: Saharan fallout, US assistance and the making of the International Atomic Energy Agency (/p/isis/citation/CBB191669430/)

Book Scott Rozelle; (2020)
Invisible China : How the urban-rural divide threatens China's rise (/p/isis/citation/CBB539796489/)

Article Vincenzo d’Alessandro; Santolo Daliento; Marco Di Mauro; Salvatore Esposito; Adele Naddeo; (2019)
Searching for a response: the intriguing mystery of Feynman’s theoretical reference amplifier (/p/isis/citation/CBB851931003/)

Article Penner, Barbara; (January 2018)
The Cornell Kitchen: Housing and Design Research in Postwar America (/p/isis/citation/CBB727529048/)

Article Michele Alacevich; (2016)
Not a Knowledge Bank: The Divided History of Development Economics and Development Organizations (/p/isis/citation/CBB886334028/)

Article Rebecca Lemov; (2017)
Anthropology’s Most Documented Man, Ca. 1947: A Prefiguration of Big Data from the Big Social Science Era (/p/isis/citation/CBB445879282/)

Book Sven Beckert; (2014)
Empire of Cotton: A Global History (/p/isis/citation/CBB590014542/)

Book John Tutino; (2018)
The Mexican Heartland: How Communities Shaped Capitalism, a Nation, and World History, 1500–2000 (/p/isis/citation/CBB767890902/)

Article Bradley J. Bond; (2016)
Fairy Godmothers > Robots: The Influence of Televised Gender Stereotypes and Counter-Stereotypes on Girls’ Perceptions of STEM (/p/isis/citation/CBB609740404/)

Article Downs, Gregory P.; (2009)
University Men, Social Science, and White Supremacy in North Carolina (/p/isis/citation/CBB001030728/)

Book Evans, Ronald W.; (2011)
The Hope for American School Reform: The Cold War Pursuit of Inquiry Learning in Social Studies (/p/isis/citation/CBB001231191/)

Thesis Tabby Grabowski; (2018)
Reading Strategies in High School Social Studies: Implementation of Common Core Requirements (/p/isis/citation/CBB441989628/)

Thesis Elisabeth M. Yang; (2022)
Constructing Moral Babies: The Medical and Scientific Enterprise of Infancy in America, 1850s–1920s (/p/isis/citation/CBB171852329/)

Book Catherine Reno Alexander; (2012)
Economies of recycling: The global transformation of materials, values and social relations (/p/isis/citation/CBB654046678/)

Article Gerstenberger, Debora; (2014)
Gilberto Freyre: um teórico da globalização? (/p/isis/citation/CBB001420710/)

Article Sigrid Irene Wentzel; (December 2020)
State of Uncertainty: Educating the First Railroaders in Central Sakha (Yakutiya) (/p/isis/citation/CBB714125377/)