Science Studies During the Cold War and Beyond: Paradigms Defected by Aronova, Elena

Science Studies During the Cold War and Beyond: Paradigms Defected (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781137578167)

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Science Studies During the Cold War and Beyond: Paradigms Defected by Aronova, Elena

Science Studies During the Cold War and Beyond: Paradigms Defected

$139.99
Science Studies During the Cold War and Beyond: Paradigms Defected by Aronova, Elena

Science Studies During the Cold War and Beyond: Paradigms Defected

$139.99
Format: Hardcover
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In the past two decades, scholars in the cross-disciplinary field known as 'science studies, ' or STS (Science and Technology Studies), have illuminated the ways in which the social, political, and conceptual developments of science and technology in the 20th century were shaped by the symbiotic relationships of science with the state and politics, demonstrating that political ambitions and intellectual/scientific production are inseparable. But this kind of analysis has hardly ever led to the self-reflexive effort to understand science studies as it was informed and shaped by political tensions. As a professional community, science studies scholars themselves are, of course, no exception to dynamics of interaction between experts, politicians and the state. However, so far few existing accounts have examined the social, political, and intellectual developments that laid its foundation. This volume seeks to add historical depth to the existing historiographic reflections on the post-WWII developments in history, philosophy and sociology of science, reconsidering conceptual and political origins of science studies as an academic discipline. In particular, it illuminates the ways in which the confrontation between superpowers informed significant transitions in this field in different national contexts. Since the Cold War defined a bipolar regime founded on opposing ideologies, it created the circumstances for designing different, alternative and at times conflicting interpretations of what science was or should be

Author: Elena Aronova
ISBN-10: 1137578165
ISBN-13: 9781137578167
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 09/26/2016
Pages: 328
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.17lbs
Size: 8.51h x 6.12w x 0.93d
By Elena Aronova
By Elena Aronova
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Elena Aronova is an Assistant Professor at the History Department of the University of California at Santa Barbara, USA. She is completing her book, which examines the ways in which ideas about science have become a sphere of Cold War competition, on both sides of the "iron curtain." Her current project, Doing Things with Data, examines the politics of environmental data collection, archiving, and exchange during the Cold War.

Simone Turchetti is Lecturer at the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine at the University of Manchester, UK. His research focuses on the interplay between scientists, intelligence officers and diplomats during the Cold War period. He is the author of The Pontecorvo Affair: A Cold War Defection and Nuclear Physics (2012), and more recently he has co-edited The Surveillance Imperative. Geosciences during the Cold War and Beyond.

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