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Science Studies during the Cold War and Beyond - Paradigms Defected (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
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Science Studies during the Cold War and Beyond - Paradigms Defected (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
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This book examines the ways in which studies of science intertwined
with Cold War politics, in both familiar and less familiar
"battlefields" of the Cold War. Taken together, the essays
highlight two primary roles for science studies as a new field of
expertise institutionalized during the Cold War in different
political regimes. Firstly, science studies played a political role
in cultural Cold War in sustaining as well as destabilizing
political ideologies in different political and national contexts.
Secondly, it was an instrument of science policies in the early
Cold War: the studies of science were promoted as the underpinning
for the national policies framed with regard to both global
geopolitics and local national priorities. As this book
demonstrates, however, the wider we cast our net, extending our
histories beyond the more researched developments in the Anglophone
West, the more complex and ambivalent both the "science studies"
and "the Cold War" become outside these more familiar spaces. The
national stories collected in this book may appear incommensurable
with what we know as science studies today, but these stories
present a vantage point from which to pluralize some of the visions
that were constitutive to the construction of "Cold War" as a
juxtaposition of the liberal democracies in the "West" and the
communist "East."
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