Itineraries of expertise : science, technology, and the environment in Latin America's long Cold War / edited by Andra B. Chastain and Timothy W. Lorek.

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[2020]
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Science, technology, and the environment in Latin America's long Cold War

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"Itineraries of Expertise contends that experts and expertise played fundamental roles in the Latin American Cold War. While traditional Cold War histories of the region have examined diplomatic, intelligence, and military operations and more recent studies have probed the cultural dimensions of the conflict, the experts who constitute the focus of this volume escaped these categories. Although they often portrayed themselves as removed from politics, their work contributed to the key geopolitical agendas of the day. The paths traveled by the experts in this volume not only traversed Latin America and connected Latin America to the Global North, they also stretch traditional chronologies of the Latin American Cold War to show how local experts in the early twentieth century laid the foundation for post-World War II development projects, and how Cold War knowledge of science, technology, and the environment continues to impact our world today. These essays unite environmental history and the history of science and technology to argue for the importance of expertise in the Latin American Cold War."-- Provided by publisher.

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Pittsburgh, PA : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2020]

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x, 347 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Border Crossings and the Remaking of Latin American Cold War Studies / Gilbert M. Joseph -- Agrarian Antecedents and Rural Development -- Transplanting "El Tenesí" : Mexican Planners in the US South during the Cold War Era / Tore C. Olsson -- Strange Priests and Walking Experts : Nature, Spirituality, and Science in Sprouting the Cold War's Green Revolution / Timothy W. Lorek -- "Communications for Change" : Radio Sutatenza/Acción Cultural Popular, the Catholic Church, and Rural Development in Colombia during the Cold War / Mary Roldán -- Cold War Scientific Exchanges -- Challenging Climate and Geopolitics : Cuba, Canada, and Intensive Livestock Exchange in a Cold War Context, from the 1960s to the 1980s / Reinaldo Funes-Monzote and Steven Palmer -- A Tale of Four Laboratories : Animal Disease, Science, and Politics in Cold War Latin America / Thomas Rath -- NASA in Chile : Technology and Visual Culture / Pedro Ignacio Alonso and Hugo Palmarola -- Infrastructures of the Built Environment -- Planning, Politics, and Praxis at Colombia's Inter-American Housing Lab, 1951-1966 / Mark Healey -- Dams and Hydroelectricity : Circulation of Knowledge and Technological Imaginaries in South America, 1945-1970 / Fernando Purcell -- Planning the Santiago Metro in Cold War Chile / Andra B. Chastain -- Toward New Regimes of Expertise -- Middle Modernisms : Collecting and Measuring Nature in the Peruvian Amazon / Emily Wakild -- Privatizing Expertise : Environmental Scientists and Technocrats in Chile's Transition to Democracy / Javiera Barandiarán -- Conclusion. New Narratives of Technology, Expertise, and Environment in Latin America : The Cold War and Beyond / Eden Medina and Mark Carey.

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    History of Medicine
    AC.U.78
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  • 9780822945963
  • 0822945967