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Science Studies during the Cold War and Beyond: Paradigms Defected (Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology) by Elena Aronova and Simone Turchetti is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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This book examines the ways in which studies of science intertwined with Cold War politics, in both familiar and less familiar "battlefields" of the Cold War. Taken together, the essays highlight two primary roles for science studies as a new field of expertise institutionalized during the Cold War in different political regimes. Firstly, science studies played a political role in cultural Cold War in sustaining as well as destabilizing political ideologies in different political and national contexts. Secondly, it was an instrument of science policies in the early Cold War: the studies of science were promoted as the underpinning for the national policies framed with regard to both global geopolitics and local national priorities. As this book demonstrates, however, the wider we cast our net, extending our histories beyond the more researched developments in the Anglophone West, the more complex and ambivalent both the "science studies" and "the Cold War" become outside these more familiar spaces. The national stories collected in this book may appear incommensurable with what we know as science studies today, but these stories present a vantage point from which to pluralize s

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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Elena Aronova and Simone Turchetti
Publisher
This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by Springer Nature
Published
2016
Language
EN
ISBN
9781137559432
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
History, Political Science, Science

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