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Title: Knowledge Flows in a Global Age
Condition: New
Subtitle: A Transnational Approach
Author: John Krige
Contributor: John Krige (Edited by)
Format: Hardback
ISBN-10: 0226819949
EAN: 9780226819945
ISBN: 9780226819945
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Genre: Language & Reference
Topic: Science Nature & Math, History
Release Date: 09/07/2022
Description: 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.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: UK
Item Height: 229mm
Item Length: 152mm
Item Width: 28mm
Item Weight: 567g
Type: Textbook
Release Year: 2022

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