Contents
Acknowledgments
Map of Latin America and Featured Sites of Expertise
Introduction-Andra B. Chastain and Timothy W. Lorek
1. Border Crossings and the Remaking of Latin American Cold War Studies-Gilbert M. Joseph
I. Agrarian Antecedents and Rural Development
2. Transplanting “El Tenesí”: Mexican Planners in the US South during the Cold War Era-Tore C. Olsson
3. Strange Priests and Walking Experts: Nature, Spirituality, and Science in Sprouting the Cold War’s Green Revolution-Timothy W. Lorek
4. “Communication for Change”: Radio Sutatenza/Acción Cultural Popular, the Catholic Church, and Rural Development in Colombia during the Cold War-Mary Roldán
II. Cold War Scientific Exchanges
5. Challenging Climate and Geopolitics: Cuba, Canada, and Intensive Livestock Exchange in a Cold War Context, from the 1960s to the 1980s-Reinaldo Funes-Monzote and Steven Palmer
6. A Tale of Four Laboratories: Animal Disease, Science, and Politics in Cold War Latin America-Thomas Rath
7. NASA in Chile: Technology and Visual Culture-Pedro Ignacio Alonso and Hugo Palmarola
III. Infrastructures of the Built Environment
8. Planning, Politics, and Praxis at Colombia’s Inter-American Housing Lab, 1951–1966-Mark Healey
9. Dams and Hydroelectricity: Circulation of Knowledge and Technological Imaginaries in South America, 1945–1970-Fernando Purcell
10. Planning the Santiago Metro in Cold War Chile-Andra B. Chastain
IV. Toward New Regimes of Expertise
11. Middle Modernisms: Collecting and Measuring Nature in the Peruvian Amazon-Emily Wakild
12. Privatizing Expertise: Environmental Scientists and Technocrats in Chile’s Transition to Democracy-Javiera Barandiarán
Conclusion. New Narratives of Technology, Expertise, and Environment in Latin America: The Cold War and Beyond-Eden Medina and Mark Carey
Contributors
Index