{"616004":{"#nid":"616004","#data":{"type":"news","title":"John Krige Edits New Book on Transnational Movement of Knowledge","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJohn Krige edited the new book \u003Cem\u003EHow Knowledge Moves: Writing the Transnational History of Science and Technology\u003C\/em\u003E (University of Chicago Press).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAbout the book:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EKnowledge matters, and states have a stake in managing its movement to protect a variety of local and national interests.\u0026nbsp; The view that knowledge circulates by itself in a flat world, unimpeded by national boundaries, is a myth. The transnational movement of knowledge is a social accomplishment, requiring negotiation, accommodation, and adaptation to the specificities of local contexts.\u0026nbsp; This volume of essays by historians of science and technology breaks the national framework in which histories are often written. Instead,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EHow Knowledge Moves\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;takes knowledge as its central object, with the goal of unraveling the relationships among people, ideas, and things that arise when they cross national borders.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nThis specialized knowledge is located at multiple sites and moves across borders via a dazzling array of channels, embedded in heads and hands, in artifacts, and in texts. In the United States, it shapes policies for visas, export controls, and nuclear weapons proliferation; in Algeria, it enhances the production of oranges by colonial settlers; in Vietnam, it facilitates the exploitation of a river delta. In India it transforms modes of agricultural production.\u0026nbsp; It implants American values in Latin America.\u0026nbsp;By concentrating on the conditions that allow for knowledge movement, these essays explore travel and exchange in face-to-face encounters and show how border-crossings mobilize extensive bureaucratic technologies.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMore on the book can be found \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/press.uchicago.edu\/ucp\/books\/book\/chicago\/H\/bo34094209.html\u0022\u003Ehere.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"\u00a0By concentrating on the conditions that allow for knowledge movement, these essays explore travel and exchange in face-to-face encounters and show how border-crossings mobilize extensive bureaucratic technologies."}],"uid":"33693","created_gmt":"2019-01-07 19:08:38","changed_gmt":"2019-01-07 21:22:17","author":"Kayleigh Haskin","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-01-07T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2019-01-07T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"616003":{"id":"616003","type":"image","title":"How Knowledge Moves","body":null,"created":"1546888113","gmt_created":"2019-01-07 19:08:33","changed":"1546888113","gmt_changed":"2019-01-07 19:08:33","alt":"Cover of How Knowledge Moves, edited by John Krige","file":{"fid":"234475","name":"9780226605999.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/9780226605999.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/9780226605999.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":849283,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/9780226605999.jpg?itok=zeO-HL9V"}}},"media_ids":["616003"],"groups":[{"id":"473211","name":"_OLD: School of History and Sociology Student Blog"},{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1288","name":"School of History and Sociology"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"166849","name":"HSOC Blog"},{"id":"172801","name":"HSOC news"},{"id":"166851","name":"HSOC research"},{"id":"587","name":"John Krige"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}