A transnational approach to understanding and analyzing knowledge
circulation. The contributors to this collection focus on what
happens to knowledge and know-how at national borders. Rather than
treating it as flowing like currents across them, or diffusing out
from center to periphery, they stress the human intervention that
shapes how knowledge is processed, mobilized, and repurposed in
transnational transactions to serve diverse interests, constraints,
and environments. The chapters consider both what knowledge travels
and how it travels across borders of varying permeability that
impede or facilitate its movement. They look closely at a variety
of platforms and objects of knowledge, from tangible
commodities-like hybrid wheat seeds, penicillin, Robusta coffee,
naval weaponry, seed banks, satellites and high-performance
computers-to the more conceptual apparatuses of plant phenotype
data and statistics. Moreover, this volume decenters the Global
North, tracking how knowledge moves along multiple paths across the
borders of Mexico, India, Portugal, Guinea-Bissau, the Soviet
Union, China, Angola, Palestine and the West Bank, as well as the
United States and the United Kingdom. An important new work of
transnational history, this collection recasts the way we
understand and analyze knowledge circulation.
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