Knowledge flows in a global age : a transnational approach /
"Viewing knowledge as travelling between sites, rather than flowing like currents through them or diffusing out from them, the contributors to this collection stress the human intention which shapes and drives how knowledge is processed, mobilized, and repurposed to serve differing and uneven i...
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Chicago ; London :
The University of Chicago Press,
2022.
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| ISBN: | 9780226820378, 0226820378 |
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Introduction : Writing the transnational history of knowledge flows in a global age / Knowledge, state power, and the invention of international science / Part I: Regulating transnational knowledge flows. Harnessing invention : the British Admiralty and the political economy of knowledge in the World War I era / Culture diplomacy : penicillin and the problem of Anglo-American knowledge sharing in World War II / Dangerous calculations : the origins of the US high-performance computer export safeguards regime, 1968-1974 / Part II: Facilitating transnational knowledge flows. Beyond Borlaug's shadow : a Mexican seeds and the narratives of the Green Revolution / Moving coffee from the cloud forests of colonial Angola to the breakfast tables of main street America, 1940-1961 / Statistics and emancipation from New Deal America to guerrilla warfare in Guinea-Bissau / Security versus sovereignty in a Palestinian seed bank / How data cross borders : globalizing plant knowledge through transnational data management and its epistemic economy / Conclusion : decentering the global North /