Cold War Social Science: Transnational Entanglements Hardcover ? May 8, 2021

ISBN 10: 3030702456 / ISBN 13: 9783030702458

Published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2021

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Cold War Social Science: Transnational Entanglements Hardcover ? May 8, 2021
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3030702456
• ISBN 13: 9783030702458
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This book explores how the social sciences became entangled with the global Cold War. While duly recognizing the realities of nation states, national power, and national aspirations, the studies gathered here open up new lines of transnational investigation. Considering developments in a wide array of fields – anthropology, development studies, economics, education, political science, psychology, science studies, and sociology – that involved the movement of people, projects, funding, and ideas across diverse national contexts, this volume pushes scholars to rethink certain fundamental points about how we should understand – and thus how we should study – Cold War social science itself. 

About the Author

Mark Solovey is Associate Professor in the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at the University of Toronto, Canada.

Christian Dayé is a sociologist at the Science, Technology and Society (STS) Unit of Graz University of Technology, Austria.