@misc{10481/75405,
year = {2015},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10481/75405},
abstract = {The five papers included in this dossier aim to contribute to a further
understanding of the role of across-the-border travels, itineraries, and
transactions that characterized technoscientific practices during the Cold
War. They do so by broadening the geographical scope of historical studies,
and contextualizing the local within the global events, concerns, and policies
of the period, especially through the role of international agencies in the
construction of almost-global networks of science. The papers also share
a way of seeing, of interrogating the global projects and goals in their local
happening and the tensions produced between them. The result, we must
say, is not a triumphalist view of science and technical assistance, but one of
mixed results. Personal agendas are furthered, development programs fail,
the scientific community is seldom truly international, while at the same
time the growth of international networks allowed the training of a new
generation of scientists around the world, and the incorporation of places,
technologies, and actors transformed Cold War technoscientific practices
by introducing different local priorities and ways of doing.},
publisher = {Universidad de Granada},
title = {Across borders: science and technology during the Cold War. An introduction},
author = {Suárez Díaz, Edna and Mateos, Gisela and Barahona, Ana},
}