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Decentering Cold War social science : Alva Myrdal's social scientific internationalism at UNESCO, 1950–1955

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  • المؤلفون: Wisselgren, Per
  • نوع التسجيلة:
    Electronic Resource
  • الدخول الالكتروني :
    http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-451449
    Cold war social science : transnational entanglements, p. 287-313
  • معلومة اضافية
    • Publisher Information:
      Umeå universitet, Sociologiska institutionen Palgrave Macmillan 2021
    • نبذة مختصرة :
      Set up in 1946, UNESCO's Department of Social Sciences (DSS) quickly became one of the key promoters of international social science during the early Cold War era. This essay focuses on Alva Myrdal's "social scientific internationalism" in her role as DSS director from 1950 to 1955. By analyzing Myrdal's vision in the context of other contemporary ideas on international social science and with regard to the changing geopolitical landscape, I argue that her social scientific internationalism included a commitment to a modern, empirical, and U.S.-inspired style of social science. However, equally significant, she introduced a power-sensitive analysis of the geography of knowledge, according to which the case of Indian development emerged as an increasingly important exemplar in her call for a decentered international social science.
    • الموضوع:
      History; Historia; Social Sciences; Samhällsvetenskap; History of Ideas; Idé- och lärdomshistoria; Chapter in book; info:eu-repo/semantics/bookPart; text
    • الرقم المعرف:
      10.1007.978-3-030-70246-5_10
    • Availability:
      Open access content. Open access content
      info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess
    • Note:
      English
    • Other Numbers:
      UPE oai:DiVA.org:uu-451449
      0000-0001-5026-2795
      urn:isbn:9783030702465
      urn:isbn:9783030702458
      doi:10.1007/978-3-030-70246-5_10
      1280663597
    • Contributing Source:
      UPPSALA UNIV LIBR
      From OAIster®, provided by the OCLC Cooperative.
    • الرقم المعرف:
      edsoai.on1280663597
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