From the History of Science to the Science of History: Scientists and Historians in the Shaping of British Marxist Theory
In: Science & society: a journal of Marxist thought and analysis, Band 69, Heft 4, S. 529-558
ISSN: 0036-8237
In: Science & society: a journal of Marxist thought and analysis, Band 69, Heft 4, S. 529-558
ISSN: 0036-8237
In: Science & Society, Band 69, Heft 4, S. 529-558
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: Writing the Transnational History of Science and Technology - John Krige -- Part I. The US Regulatory State -- Chapter 1. Restricting the Transnational Movement of "Knowledgeable Bodies": The Interplay of US Visa Restrictions and Export Controls in the Cold War - Mario Daniels -- Chapter 2. Export Controls as Instruments to Regulate Knowledge Acquisition in a Globalizing Economy - John Krige -- Part II. Colonial and Postcolonial Contexts -- Chapter 3. California Cloning in French Algeria: Rooting Pieds Noirs and Uprooting Fellahs in the Orange Groves of the Mitidja - Tiago Saraiva -- Chapter 4. Modalities of Modernization: American Technic in Colonial and Postcolonial India - Prakash Kumar -- Chapter 5. Transnational Knowledge, American Hegemony: Social Scientists in US- Occupied Japan - Miriam Kingsberg Kadia -- Chapter 6. Dispersed Sites: San Marco and the Launch from Kenya - Asif Siddiqi -- Chapter 7. Bringing the Environment Back In: A Transnational History of Landsat - Neil M. Maher -- Part III. Individual Identities in Flux -- Chapter 8. Manuel Sandoval Vallarta: The Rise and Fall of a Transnational Actor at the Crossroad of World War II Science Mobilization - Adriana Minor -- Chapter 9. The Officer's Three Names: The Formal, Familiar, and Bureaucratic in the Transnational History of Scientific Fellowships - Michael J. Barany -- Chapter 10. Scientific Exchanges between the United States and Brazil in the Twentieth Century: Cultural Diplomacy and Transnational Movements - Olival Freire Jr. and Indianara Silva -- Chapter 11. The Transnational Physical Science Study Committee: The Evolving Nation in the World of Science and Education (1945- 1975) - Josep Simon -- Part IV. The Nuclear Regime
It is well known that technological change causes social change, and vice versa. Using system and historical perspectives, this article examines that truth at a finer level of specificity, namely, that social perceptions of interconnectedness influence the progress of science and technology, and that conversely, as 21st-century technology makes us in fact more connected, society's anxieties shift. From the science/technology side, we look at interdisciplinary research, system and complexity theory, quantum tech, and the Internet, exploring how these interact and cause changes in social attitudes-fears, conspiracy theories, political polarization, and even entertainment trends-some of which are surprising, and some dangerous. The article's systems view helps make sense of current environmental, political, and psychological crises. It combines original ideas with those of several prominent thinkers, to suggest constructive actions.
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In: The social history of science 23
In: Science, technology and culture, 1700-1945
Notes on contributors -- Preface -- Barcelona historical timeline -- Map 1: Barcelona in 1888 -- Introduction / Oliver Hochadel and Agustø Nieto-Galan -- Control : elite cultures -- Civic nature : the transformation of the Parc de la Ciutadella into a space for popular science / Oliver Hochadel and Laura Valls -- Reconstructing the martorell : donors and spaces in the quest for hegemony within the natural history museum / Ferran Aragon and José Pardo-Tomás -- Laboratory medicine and surgical enterprise in the medical landscape of the eixample district / Alfons Zarzoso and Àlvar Martønez-Vidal -- Technological fun : the politics and geographies of amusement parks / Jaume Sastre-Juan and Jaume ValentineS-Álvarez -- Resistance counter-hegemonies -- La Rosa de Foc : anarchist culture, urban spaces, and the management of scientific knowledge in a divided city / Álvaro Girón Sierra and Jorge Molero-Mesa -- The city of spirits : spiritism, feminism and the secularization of urban spaces / Mònica Balltondre and Andrea Graus -- Anatomy of the urban underworld : medical geography of the Barrio Chino / Alfons Zarzoso and José Pardo-Tomás -- Networks : experts and amateurs -- The sky above the city : observatories, amateurs and urban astronomy / Antoni Roca-Rosell and Pedro Ruiz-Castell -- The city in waves : Radio Barcelona and urban everyday life / Carlos Tabernero and Meritxell Guzmán -- The city of electric light : experts and users at the 1929 international exhibition and beyond / Jordi Ferran and Agustø Nieto-Galan -- Map 2: Barcelona in 1929 -- Index
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In: Science Studies during the Cold War and Beyond, S. 129-148
In: The RUSI journal: publication of the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies, Band 159, Heft 2, S. 98-99
ISSN: 1744-0378
In: East Asian science, technology and society: an international journal, Band 8, Heft 2, S. 257-260
ISSN: 1875-2152
In: Science & society: a journal of Marxist thought and analysis, Band 71, Heft 3, S. 374-377
ISSN: 0036-8237
In: Slavic review: interdisciplinary quarterly of Russian, Eurasian and East European studies, Band 29, Heft 4, S. 682-687
ISSN: 2325-7784
This paper aims to revisit the intellectual tension in the River Plate region surrounding a dispute between the Hungarian philosopher Desiderio Papp and the Argentine-Uruguayan physicist Félix Cernuschi when they were contenders for the Chair of Scientific Thought at the School of Humanities and Sciences of the Universidad de la República in Uruguay. Their disagreement was personal, political, and philosophical and divided the waters among the emerging community of physicists in the region and a group of actors who, for some time, had been devoted to the History of Science in the universities of the region. The History of Science constituted the battleground out of which it would emerge how science should be understood in a Uruguayan university that, historically speaking, had been remiss in providing an appropriate space for its development. In revisiting this event, this paper seeks to throw light on the present situation of an almost non-existent History of Science in Uruguay.
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