{"product_id":"knowledge-flows-in-a-global-age-9780226820385","title":"Knowledge Flows in a Global Age","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA 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 commoditieslike hybrid wheat seeds, penicillin, Robusta coffee, naval weaponry, seed banks, satellites and high-performance computersto the more conceptual apparatuses of plant phenotype data and statistics. Moreover, this volume decenters the Global North, tracking how knowledge moves\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Over the past decade, Krige has positioned himself as one of the foremost scholars investigating the seemingly simple yet, in truth, incredibly intricate and complicated issue of how and why knowledge moves around. Whereas his previous work focused on the power, utility and impact of scientific networks during the twentieth century, particularly in the nuclear field, Krige has now moved into the even broader field of knowledge mobility itself. . . . Similar to its predecessor, [\u003ci\u003eKnowledge Flows in a Global Age\u003c\/i\u003e] once again challenges us to rethink our taken-for-granted assumptions of how and why knowledge moves around, and what factors prevent it from doing so (or, more directly, what factors may deny the designation of knowledge in the first place). It is, for this reason, a richly stimulating collection the significance of which, true to its transnational outlook, transgresses standard disciplinary assumptions, disrupts interpretive frameworks and asks us to reconsider our own roles as academics in these processes.” * Annals of Science *\u003cbr\u003e“The volume shows clearly that the very idea of ‘progress’ is wrought with tension, where some actors are constricted by the liberal contractual framework and are expected to generate profits, while others seek to establish asymmetric relations in the contest for the military and technoscientific superiority. \u003ci\u003eKnowledge Flows in a Global Age\u003c\/i\u003e reads as a compendium of the complexities of transnational knowledge transfer questioning the notion of effortless globalization. It does important work that will certainly be useful for a wide range of scholarship.” * H-Diplo *\u003cbr\u003e\"Krige and his collaborators have assembled a powerful array of studies that reconfigure conventional narratives about how knowledge flows. Divided among historical case studies related in some way or another to national and economic security, on the one hand, and agricultural exchanges, on the other, the volume avoids the usual binaries of Global North and Global South—or of guns and butter—emphasizing the efforts to block, shape, or redirect the flow of knowledge. The cast of characters and the variety of regions is massively expanded, to excellent effect.\" -- Michael D. Gordin, Princeton University\u003cbr\u003e“For too long, ‘global’ histories of science have envisioned an antiquated hydraulic mechanism, pumping out authorized knowledge from northern laboratories to southern deserts. At last, this book reveals instead the densely and intricately reticulated worldwide networks transmitting the concepts and practices of modern science. Abandoning the imperial optic for such multi-sited transnational perspectives makes global science look truly different and far more compelling.\" -- Warwick Anderson, University of Sydney\u003cbr\u003e\"An excellent, absorbing, and refreshingly revisionist collection of cutting-edge studies by eminent scholars in the transnational history of modern science and technology, organized and edited by a pioneer in the field. Integrating enlightening empirical examinations with penetrating analyses, the volume illuminates brilliantly forces that both propelled and blocked knowledge flow across national borders.\" -- Zuoyue Wang, California State Polytechnic University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e    Writing the Transnational History of Knowledge Flows in a Global Age\u003cbr\u003e    John Krige\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1\u003cbr\u003e    Knowledge, State Power, and the Invention of International Science\u003cbr\u003e    Jessica Wang\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part I: Regulating Transnational Knowledge Flows\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2\u003cbr\u003e    Harnessing Invention: The British Admiralty and the Political Economy of Knowledge in the World War I Era\u003cbr\u003e    Katherine C. Epstein\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3\u003cbr\u003e    Culture Diplomacy: Penicillin and the Problem of Anglo-American Knowledge Sharing in World War II\u003cbr\u003e    Michael A. Falcone\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4\u003cbr\u003e    Dangerous Calculations: The Origins of the US High-Performance Computer Export Safeguards Regime, 1968–1974\u003cbr\u003e    Mario Daniels\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5\u003cbr\u003e    Regulating the Transnational Flow of Intangible Knowledge of Space Launchers between the United States and China in the Clinton Era\u003cbr\u003e    John Krige\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part II: Facilitating Transnational Knowledge Flows\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6\u003cbr\u003e    Beyond Borlaug’s Shadow: Mexican Seeds and the Narratives of the Green Revolution\u003cbr\u003e    Gabriela Soto Laveaga\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7\u003cbr\u003e    Moving Coffee from the Cloud Forests of Colonial Angola to the Breakfast Tables of Main Street America, 1940–1961\u003cbr\u003e    Maria Gago\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8\u003cbr\u003e    Statistics and Emancipation from New Deal America to Guerrilla Warfare in Guinea-Bissau\u003cbr\u003e    Tiago Saraiva\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 9\u003cbr\u003e    Security versus Sovereignty in a Palestinian Seed Bank\u003cbr\u003e    Courtney Fullilove\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 10\u003cbr\u003e    How Data Cross Borders: Globalizing Plant Knowledge through Transnational Data Management and Its Epistemic Economy\u003cbr\u003e    Sabina Leonelli\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e    Decentering the Global North\u003cbr\u003e    John Krige\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Contributors\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732927328599,"sku":"9780226820385","price":34.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780226820385.jpg?v=1719998983","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/knowledge-flows-in-a-global-age-9780226820385","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}