Mexican science during the cold war: an agenda for physics and the life sciences



Título del documento: Mexican science during the cold war: an agenda for physics and the life sciences
Revue: Ludus vitalis
Base de datos: CLASE
Número de sistema: 000365473
ISSN: 1133-5165
Autores: 1
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Instituciones: 1Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Facultad de Ciencias, México, Distrito Federal. México
Año:
Volumen: 20
Número: 37
Paginación: 47-69
País: México
Idioma: Inglés
Tipo de documento: Artículo
Enfoque: Histórico, descriptivo
Resumen en inglés 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
Disciplinas: Ciencia y tecnología,
Historia
Palabras clave: Ciencia,
Historia de la ciencia,
Historia regional,
Tecnología,
América Latina,
México,
Estados Unidos de América,
Dependencia,
Siglo XX,
1950-1980
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