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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820401403321

Titolo

Entangled geographies : empire and technopolitics in the global Cold War / / edited by Gabrielle Hecht

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2011

ISBN

1-283-14812-9

9786613148124

0-262-29571-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (348 p.)

Collana

Inside technology

Altri autori (Persone)

HechtGabrielle

Disciplina

325/.309045

Soggetti

Cold War

Decolonization

Geopolitics

Technology - Political aspects

Technology and state

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction / Gabrielle Hecht -- Islands : the United States as a networked empire / Ruth Oldenziel -- The uses of portability : circulating experts in the technopolitics of Cold War and decolonization / Donna Mehos and Suzanne Moon -- On the fallacies of Cold War nostalgia : capitalism, colonialism, and South African nuclear geographies / Gabrielle Hecht -- Rare earths : the Cold War in the annals of travancore / Itty Abraham -- Nuclear colonization? : Soviet technopolitics in the second world / Sonja D. Schmid -- The techonpolitical lineage of state planning in Hungary, 1930-1956 / Martha Lampland -- Fifty years' progress in five : Brasilia -modernization, globalism, and the geopolitics of flight / Lars Denicke -- Crude ecology : technology and the politics of dissent in Saudi Arabia / Toby C. Jones -- A plundering tiger with its deadly cubs? The USSR and China as weapons in the engineering of a 'Zimbabwean Nation," 1945-2009 / Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga -- Cleaning up the Cold War : global humanitarianism and the infrastructure of crisis response / Peter Redfield.



Sommario/riassunto

This work 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.