| Journal: | Ludus vitalis |
| Database: | CLASE |
| System number: | 000365473 |
| ISSN: | 1133-5165 |
| Authors: | Mateos, Gisela1 Suárez Díaz, Edna1 |
| Institutions: | 1Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Facultad de Ciencias, México, Distrito Federal. México |
| Year: | 2012 |
| Volumen: | 20 |
| Number: | 37 |
| Pages: | 47-69 |
| Country: | México |
| Language: | Inglés |
| Document type: | Artículo |
| Approach: | Histórico, descriptivo |
| English abstract | This paper aims to offer a programmatic agenda for a social history of science and technology of Mexico during the Cold War period (from 1950 to the mid-1980s). We take into account recent trends in the field of science studies, such as the inclusion of postcolonial studies and a robust attention to the circulation of knowledge, understood as the traveling of scientific practices, people, tools and materials. After a brief survey on the international literature on Cold War science, including Latin America and Mexico, we introduce two requirements: a symmetrical treatment of global and local (Mexican) historical trajectories, and the necessity to write interconnected stories to account for the co-construction of the US scientific and technological hegemony after World War II. Finally, we provide a set of specific questions to be answered by historians of Mexican physics and life sciences during this period |
| Disciplines: | Ciencia y tecnología, Historia |
| Keyword: | Ciencia, Historia de la ciencia, Historia regional, Tecnología, América Latina, México, Estados Unidos de América, Dependencia, Siglo XX, 1950-1980 |
| Full text: | Texto completo (Ver PDF) |
