Science Studies during the Cold War and Beyond
Paradigms Defected
Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology;
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Product details:
- Edition number 1st ed. 2016
- Publisher Palgrave Macmillan US
- Date of Publication 26 September 2016
- Number of Volumes 1 pieces, Book
- ISBN 9781137578167
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages328 pages
- Size 210x148 mm
- Weight 5459 g
- Language English
- Illustrations XIII, 328 p. 0
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Long description:
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.”
Table of Contents:
.Section one. Science Studies in the “West”.-.Chapter 1. George Reisch, Telegrams and Paradigms: On Cold-War Geopolitics and The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.-.Chapter 2. Ian James Kidd, “What’s So Great about Science?” Feyerabend on Science, Ideology, and the Cold War.-Chapter 3. Simone Turchetti, Looking for the Bad Teachers. Radicalism and the history of science in Western countries.-.Chapter 4. Hans-Joachim Dahms, Kuhn’s “Structure”: An Exemplary Document of the Cold War Era?.-. Section two. Studies of Science Behind the ‘Curtain’.-.Chapter 5. Gabor Pallo, Blind Isolation: History of Science behind the Iron Curtain.-.Chapter 6. Michał Kokowski, The Science of Science (naukoznawstwo) in Poland. Defending and removing the past in the Cold War.-.Chapter 7. Vítězslav Sommer, Scientists of the World, Unite! Radovan Richta’s Theory of Scientific and Technological Revolution.-. Section three. National Agendas of the Studies of Science Beyond the ‘Two Blocs’.-.Chapter 8. Aant Elzinga, Cold War and Academic Boundaries: Imprints on the origins and early development of science studies in Sweden.-.Chapter 9. Federico Vasen, What Does a “National” Science Mean? Science policy, politics and philosophy in Latin America.-.Chapter 10. Lu Gao, From Natural Dialectics to STS: The Historical Evolution of Science Studies in China.
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