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How Knowledge Moves - Writing the Transnational History of Science and Technology (Paperback)
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How Knowledge Moves - Writing the Transnational History of Science and Technology (Paperback)
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Knowledge matters, and states have a stake in managing its movement
to protect a variety of local and national interests. The view that
knowledge circulates by itself in a flat world, unimpeded by
national boundaries, is a myth. The transnational movement of
knowledge is a social accomplishment, requiring negotiation,
accommodation, and adaptation to the specificities of local
contexts. This volume of essays by historians of science and
technology breaks the national framework in which histories are
often written. Instead, How Knowledge Moves takes knowledge as its
central object, with the goal of unraveling the relationships among
people, ideas, and things that arise when they cross national
borders. This specialized knowledge is located at multiple sites
and moves across borders via a dazzling array of channels, embedded
in heads and hands, in artifacts, and in texts. In the United
States, it shapes policies for visas, export controls, and nuclear
weapons proliferation; in Algeria, it enhances the production of
oranges by colonial settlers; in Vietnam, it facilitates the
exploitation of a river delta. In India it transforms modes of
agricultural production. It implants American values in Latin
America. By concentrating on the conditions that allow for
knowledge movement, these essays explore travel and exchange in
face-to-face encounters and show how border-crossings mobilize
extensive bureaucratic technologies.
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