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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.
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
