Meteorology as Infrastructural Globalism
نویسنده
چکیده
This chapter explores the history of a global governance institution, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), from its nineteenth-century origins through the beginnings of a planetary meteorological observing network, the WMO’s World Weather Watch (WWW), in the 1960s. This history illustrates a profoundly important transition from voluntarist internationalism, based on shared interests, to quasiobligatory globalism, based on a more permanent shared infrastructure. The WMO and the WWW thus represent infrastructural globalism, by which “the world” as a whole is produced and maintained (as both object of knowledge and unified arena of human action) through global infrastructures.
منابع مشابه
The Contradictions of Techno-Nationalism and Techno-Globalism: A Historical Perspective
Techno-nationalism and techno-globalism are descriptive and prescriptive categories for understanding the impact of technology on society and vice versa. They reflect the underlying assumptions made by analysts of the place of technology in the world, and denote ideologies, rather than technological policies or realities. They also help us to realize that standard accounts of the nation and glo...
متن کاملRocks and hard places: development research between neoliberal globalism and global neoliberalism
متن کامل
Intellectual Responsibility for an Ecology Agenda
After Auschwitz and Hiroshima—using these words as labels and signifiers of many phenomena and issues—I think we all would agree that technoscience (in Bruno Latour's sense of 1987) is not only the contested ground for debates informed by technophobia and technophilia (see, e.g., Hickman, 1985, Part I), but is also the site where personal and public responsibility should be scrutinized under a ...
متن کاملZoning of physical - infrastructural Vulnerabilities to landslides using GIS, case study: settlements in Tehran and Alborz provinces
Background and objectives: Tehran and Alborz provinces are important zones from an economic, social and political activities point of views in the country; most of the habitations in these provinces were built in areas which are in the risk of landslide. This research, studied the damages and physical-infrastructural vulnerabilities in these areas, considering the landslide hazardous zones base...
متن کامل