1st Edition
Science Popularisation as Cultural Diplomacy in Cold War UNESCO (1946-1958)
A Short Guide to UNESCO in its Early Years (1946-1958)
Introduction: Science Popularization as Cultural Diplomacy
Andrée Bergeron, Agustí Nieto-Galan and Jaume Sastre-Juan
Chapter 2. The International Politics of Science Popularization from the League of Nations to UNESCO
Jaume Sastre-Juan and Andrée Bergeron
Chapter 3. Julian Huxley, the Soviet “Other”, and the Objectives of Popularization of Science
Elena Aronova
Chapter 4. Staging Ecumenical Science for Peace: Science Popularization in Action at the UNESCO Month, 1946
Thomas Mougey
Chapter 5. UNESCO as Teacher of Norms in Science Popularization
Casper Andersen and Kristian Hvidtfelt Nielsen
Chapter 6. ‘Food and People’ or How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love International Development: A Global South Narrative
Stefan Pohl-Valero
Chapter 7. ‘É um abacaxi’: Continuity, Contention and Contingency of Cultural Diplomacy in UNESCO’s Traveling Scientific Exhibition for Latin America (1949-1953)
Adriana Minor
Chapter 8. ‘Man Measures the Universe’: Instruments, Experiments and Numbers Travelling through Cold War Europe
Agustí Nieto-Galan
Chapter 9. Postscript
John Krige
Biography
Andrée Bergeron is Associate Professor of History of Science at the Centre Alexandre-Koyré (EHESS-CNRS-MNHN) in Paris. Her research focuses on the articulation between science, culture and politics. She has recently coordinated with Charlotte Bigg a collective volume Les Sciences et leurs Mises en Scène (19e-21e) (forthcoming).
Agustí Nieto-Galan is Professor of History of Science at the Institut d’Història de la Ciència of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and ICREA Acadèmia Fellow. His research focuses on the relation between science and politics in the twentieth century, in particular on the role of refugee scholars and activists in the production of new knowledge.
Jaume Sastre-Juan is Serra-Húnter Professor at the Institut d’Història de la Ciència of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. His research focuses on the intersection between politics and the popularization of science and technology. He has published on the history of “interactivity” in science museums, on technological fun in amusement parks and on the banalization of nuclear technologies through display.
