Entangled geographies
Subtitle: empire and technopolitics in the global Cold War
By: edited by Gabrielle Hecht
Series: Inside technology
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 337
ISBN-13: 9780262515788
Subjects: Decolonization; Geopolitics; Cold War; Political aspects; Technology; Technology and state
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Gabrielle Hecht; title: Islands : the United States as a networked empire / Ruth Oldenziel; title: The uses of portablility : circulating experts in the technopolitics of Cold War and decoloniztion / Donna Mehos and Suzanne Moon; title: On the fallacies of Cold War nostalgia : captialism, colonialism, and South African nuclear geographies / Gabrielle Hecht; title: Rare earths : the Cold War in the annals of travancore / Itty Abraham; title: Nuclear colonization? : Soviet technopolitics in the second world / Sonja D. Schmid; title: The techonpolitical lineage of state planning in Hungary, 1930-1956 / Martha Lampland; title: Fifty years' progess in five : Brasilia -modernization, globalism, and the geopolitics of flight / Lars Denicke; title: Crude ecology : technology and the politics of dissent in Saudi Arabia / Toby C. Jones; title: 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; title: Cleaning up the Cold War : global humanitarianism and the infrastructure of crisis response / Peter Redfield.