The Cold War Context Of Knowledge Production And American Studies In The Ussr

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
American Studies ◽  
The Cold War

Latin American Studies in China during the Cold War

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 141-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mao Xianglin ◽  
Shi Huiye
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Cultural Revolution ◽  
American Studies ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Mao Zedong ◽  
Latin American Studies ◽  
New Era ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Five Phases

China’s Latin American studies during the Cold War can be divided into five phases. Chairman Mao Zedong and Premier Zhou Enlai showed concern for the development of Latin American studies in China. These studies were suspended during the Great Cultural Revolution. The field developed significantly in the 1970s and 1980s, with three academic associations being established and the five major systems of Latin American studies beginning to take shape. After 2000, Sino–Latin American relations entered a new era, and the first 10 years of the century saw their rapid development, opening broad perspectives for the field. Los estudios latinoamericanos en China durante la Guerra Fría se pueden dividir en cinco fases. El presidente Mao Zedong y el primer ministro Zhou Enlai mostraron interés en el desarrollo de dichos estudios, pero estos se suspendieron durante la Revolución Cultural. Posteriormente, el campo se desarrolló de manera significativa durante los años setenta y ochenta gracias al establecimiento de tres asociaciones académicas y conforme se consolidaron los cinco sistemas principales de estudios latinoamericanos. Después del año 2000, las relaciones entre China y Latinoamérica entraron en una nueva fase, y la primera década del nuevo siglo atestiguó un rápido desarrollo que expandió las posibilidades en el campo.

The emergence of lethal surveillance: Watching and killing in the history of drone technology

2016 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 223-238 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katharine Hall Kindervater
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Archival Research ◽  
Targeted Killing ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
History Of ◽  
Drone Warfare ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
And Control

This article examines the history of the development of drone technology to understand the longer histories of surveillance and targeting that shape contemporary drone warfare. Drawing on archival research, the article focuses on three periods in the history of the drone: the early years during World Wars I and II, the Cold War, and the 1990s. The history of the drone reveals two key trends in Western warfare: the increasing importance of intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) and the development of dynamic targeting. These trends converge today in a practice of lethal surveillance where ISR capabilities are directly linked to targeted killing, effectively merging mechanisms of surveillance and knowledge production with decisions on life and death. Taking this history of lethal surveillance into account not only reframes current debates on drone warfare, but also connects the drone to other practices of security and control.

The “kgb People,” Soviet Americanists and Soviet-American Academic Exchanges, 1958–1985

2017 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sergei Zhuk
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Social History ◽  
American Studies ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
American Academic

Using various case studies – from Oleg Kalugin to Grigorii Sevostianov and Nikolai Sivachev in Russia, and Askold Shlepakov in Ukraine, this article examines different instrumental functions of the KGB people among Soviet Americanists, specialists in the US history, politics, literature and films. It focuses on the KGB influences in the field of American studies in the Soviet Union since the beginning of Soviet-us academic exchanges programs in 1958 till the beginning of perestroika. This article is a part of the larger project about cultural and social history of Soviet Americanists during the Cold War.

IMPERIAL LIBERALISM? RELIGION, EDUCATION, AND THE COLD WAR

2010 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 185-195
Author(s):  
FRANCIS G. COUVARES
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
American Politics ◽  
American Studies ◽  
Christian Right ◽  
High Point ◽  
Military Band ◽  
Band Music ◽  
The World ◽  
Armed Services ◽  
The Cold War

A few years ago I found myself at the Ogden, Utah rodeo with thirty schoolteachers from all over the world. They were participants in a Fulbright-supported American studies institute, and the trip to Utah was part of a weeklong foray into a part of America quite different from Amherst, MA, where the bulk of lectures and discussions had taken place in the previous three weeks. Our visit happened to coincide with “Armed Services Day,” and the spectacle my students encountered proved even more impressive than the riding and roping they had expected. The principle feature of that spectacle had to do with the organizers’ almost total confounding of religion and patriotism. At the high point of the event, over the roar of military band music and military helicopters passing overhead, the booming voice of the announcer declared that “God's helicopters” were protecting America and the rest of the world from tyranny. The books under review here endeavor to explain the spectacle in Ogden on that summer day—along with the train of events that, over sixty years ago, launched a crusade against “godless communism” and, a few decades later, made “the Christian right” a major force in American politics.

The Cold War and the Transformation of Latin American Studies in the United States

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 6-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald H. Chilcote
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cold War ◽  
Latin American ◽  
American Studies ◽  
Field Research ◽  
The United States ◽  
Latin American Studies ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
The University

The Cold War assumptions of mainstream Latin American studies in the United States were challenged in the 1960s by a new generation of academics that opened up the field to progressive thinking, including Marxism. West Coast intellectuals played a major role in this transformation. These new Latin Americanists rejected the university-government-foundation nexus in the field and emphasized field research that brought them into close relationships with Latin Americans struggling for change and engaging with radical alternatives to mainstream thinking. In the course of this work, they confronted efforts to co-opt them and to discourage and even prevent their field research. Despite this they managed to transform Latin American studies into a field that was intellectually and politically vibrant both in theory and in practice. Los supuestos de la Guerra Fría dominantes en los estudios latinoamericanos en los Estados Unidos fueron cuestionados en la década de 1960 por una nueva generación de académicos que abrió el campo al pensamiento progresista, incluso el Marxismo. Los intelectuales de la costa oeste jugaron un papel importante en esta transformación. Estos nuevos latinoamericanistas rechazaron el nexo universidad-gobierno-fundación que caracterizó el campo y enfatizaron la investigación en el terreno que los ubicó en una estrecha relación con los latinoamericanos que luchan por el cambio y se enfrentan con alternativas radicales al pensamiento dominante. En el curso de este trabajo, confrontaron esfuerzos para cooptarlos y desalentar e incluso prevenir su investigación en el terreno. A pesar de esto, lograron transformar los estudios latinoamericanos en un campo que era intelectualmente y políticamente vibrante tanto en la teoría como en la práctica.

scholarly journals TOWARDS A POSTCOLONIAL COMPARATIVE AND INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-34
Author(s):  
KEITA TAKAYAMA ◽  
ARATHI SRIPRAKASH ◽  
RAEWYN CONNELL
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
International Education ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
World Culture ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Comparative And International Education ◽  
The Cold War

This article, which serves to introduce the special issue on “Contesting Coloniality: Re- thinking Knowledge Production and Circulation in Comparative and International Edu- cation,” brings to the fore the rarely acknowledged colonial entanglements of knowledge in the field of comparative and international education (CIE). We begin by showing how colonial logics underpin the scholarship of one of the field’s founding figures, Isaac L. Kandel. These logics gainedlegitimacy through the Cold War geopolitical contexts in which the field was established and have shaped subsequent approaches including the much-debated world-culture approach to globalization in education. 

scholarly journals Southern Studies as Area Studies: Faulkner and Provincial Nationalism during the Cold War

2020 ◽  
pp. 29-48
Author(s):  
Jordan J. Dominy
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Southern Literature ◽  
American Studies ◽  
Southern Studies ◽  
Area Studies ◽  
Southern Identity ◽  
Culture Of Honor ◽  
The World ◽  
Political Problem ◽  
The Cold War

This chapter considers William Faulkner’s role as a literary giant and cultural ambassador during the Cold War and how his canonization into both American and southern literature reveals the usefulness of southern identity and values to the diplomatic ambitions of America on the world stage. His canonization help establish connections between area studies, American studies, and southern studies. This role is explored through close reading of Intruder in the Dust (1948), and Faulkner’s prominence in Louis D. Rubin, Jr. and Robert Jacob’s Southern Renascence (1953), the first published collection of scholarship on southern literature. Both cast the racial problems in the South as moral ones that can be solved by an exceptional culture of honor and tradition, which in turn bolsters American democratic values and dismisses race as a serious social and political problem at a moment when the country attempts to exert hegemonic influence on the world stage.

Americanists in Unexpected Places

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
George Blaustein
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Cold War ◽  
American Studies ◽  
American Exceptionalism ◽  
The United States ◽  
World War ◽  
International Diffusion ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Cold War

This chapter is a centrifugal history of American Studies in the United States and abroad. There have been many crises within American Studies, including calls to rename it, internationalize it, or abandon it altogether. But what was American Studies? What were the original preoccupations of this unusual field, and what were the historical conditions that enabled its establishment and international diffusion? American Studies operated in the knotty terrain of military occupation, reconstruction, and democratization after World War II, but the Americanist century has many points of origin, and it transcends the binaries of the Cold War. This chapter brings together the histories of American Studies in the United States with the less familiar histories of American Studies in Europe and Japan, stretching from the early twentieth century to the Cold War. It also offers a more cosmopolitan history of “American exceptionalism.”

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