Knowledge Flows in a Global Age: A Transnational Approach - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0226819949 ISBN 13: 9780226819945

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 2022

Synopsis

A 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 commodities―like hybrid wheat seeds, penicillin, Robusta coffee, naval weaponry, seed banks, satellites and high-performance computers―to the more conceptual apparatuses of plant phenotype data and  statistics. Moreover, this volume decenters the Global North, tracking how knowledge moves along multiple paths across the borders of Mexico, India, Portugal, Guinea-Bissau, the Soviet Union, China, Angola, Palestine and the West Bank, as well as the United States and the United Kingdom. An important new work of transnational history, this collection recasts the way we understand and analyze knowledge circulation.

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About the Author

John Krige is the Kranzberg Professor Emeritus in the School of History and Sociology at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is the coauthor, most recently, of Knowledge Regulation and National Security in Postwar America, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0226819949
• ISBN 13: 9780226819945
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 368
• Editor: Krige John