Anmerkungen:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:
Introduction. Scientific bonanzas : infrastructures as places of knowledge production / Eike-Christian Heine and Martin Meiske -- A subversive bonanza : the construction of the Panama Canal, the biomedical and life sciences, and the birth of tropical ecology / Paul S. Sutter -- Exploring the earth through its anthropogenic scars : geology and the construction of the Panama Canal / Martin Meiske -- Hydropower and dams : an entangled history of academic engineers, local knowledge, and environmental features, 1880-1930 / Christian Zumbrägel -- Constructing dams' global success story : knowledge production, staging, and exchange in US American and Spanish dam building from the 1920s to the 1970s / Benjamin Brendel -- Autobahn and archaeology : intersections of infrastructure, knowledge, and ideology during the Third Reich / Eike-Christian Heine -- "From the stone age into socialism" : ethnographic expertise and sovietization at West Siberian oil deposits / Valentina Roxo -- Slaves to the yield : scientific bonanza and irrigation-megalomania in the Kuban River Basin / Timm Schönfelder -- NIMBY bonanzas : European tinfrastructures and local protest as system building / Vincent Lagendijk -- Detour along the way : obstacles and knowledge production at the Ayalon Highway / Neta Feniger and Roy Kozlovsky -- Landing strips and penguins : ecological oppositions to the scientific exploration of Antarctica / Christian Kehrt.