Knowledge Flows in a Global Age: A Transnational Approach
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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Knowledge Flows in a Global Age: A Transnational Approach
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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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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780226820378
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 09/05/2022
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 368
File size: 1 MB

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction

   Writing the Transnational History of Knowledge Flows in a Global Age

   John Krige

Chapter 1

   Knowledge, State Power, and the Invention of International Science

   Jessica Wang


Part I: Regulating Transnational Knowledge Flows

Chapter 2

   Harnessing Invention: The British Admiralty and the Political Economy of Knowledge in the World War I Era

   Katherine C. Epstein

Chapter 3

   Culture Diplomacy: Penicillin and the Problem of Anglo-American Knowledge Sharing in World War II

   Michael A. Falcone

Chapter 4

   Dangerous Calculations: The Origins of the US High-Performance Computer Export Safeguards Regime, 1968–1974

   Mario Daniels

Chapter 5

   Regulating the Transnational Flow of Intangible Knowledge of Space Launchers between the United States and China in the Clinton Era

   John Krige


Part II: Facilitating Transnational Knowledge Flows

Chapter 6

   Beyond Borlaug’s Shadow: Mexican Seeds and the Narratives of the Green Revolution

   Gabriela Soto Laveaga

Chapter 7

   Moving Coffee from the Cloud Forests of Colonial Angola to the Breakfast Tables of Main Street America, 1940–1961

   Maria Gago

Chapter 8

   Statistics and Emancipation from New Deal America to Guerrilla Warfare in Guinea-Bissau

   Tiago Saraiva

Chapter 9

   Security versus Sovereignty in a Palestinian Seed Bank

   Courtney Fullilove

Chapter 10

   How Data Cross Borders: Globalizing Plant Knowledge through Transnational Data Management and Its Epistemic Economy

   Sabina Leonelli

Conclusion

   Decentering the Global North

   John Krige

Acknowledgments

Contributors

Index

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