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The Human Tide: Hydraulic Engineering and the Aesthetic of Corporeal Infrastructure in Socialist China

Yuan Gao
Radical History Review (2023) 2023 (147): 77–102.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-10637175
Published: 01 October 2023
...Yuan Gao Abstract This article investigates how cultural workers from the 1950s to the 1970s served China’s hydraulic engineering campaign in artworks depicting human resource extraction. Focusing on Tian Han’s drama The Caprice of the Ming Tombs Reservoir (1958) and Jiang Yunchuan’s documentary...
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The Biological Enterprise: Sex, Mind, and Profit from Human Engineering to Sociobiology

Donna Haraway
Radical History Review (1979) 1979 (20): 206–237.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1979-20-206
Published: 01 May 1979
...Donna Haraway 1979 The Biological Enterprise : Sex, Mind, and Profit from Human Engineering to Sociobiology Donna Haraway Life can be moulded into any conceivable form. Draw...
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The Aswan Dam and Egyptian Water Control Policy, 1882 – 1902

Claire Cookson-Hills
Radical History Review (2013) 2013 (116): 59–85.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1965693
Published: 01 May 2013
..., in order to enact a concrete imperial priority: growing cotton. One way the occupiers implemented this policy objective was through the design and construction of the Aswan Dam (1898 – 1902) by British engineers and British engineering firms. The engineers followed nineteenth-century hydraulic engineering...
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The Political Economy of Regions: Climate Change and Dams in Guyana

Sarah E. Vaughn
Radical History Review (2018) 2018 (131): 105–125.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-4355157
Published: 01 May 2018
...Sarah E. Vaughn This article charts the role damming practices play in rescaling the geopolitical interests of engineers in Guyana. It focuses on engineers’ responses to a disastrous flood in 1934, the first flood in their recorded history to compromise the East Demerara Water Conservancy. I argue...
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A Dream Deferred: UNESCO, American Expertise, and the Eclipse of Radical News Development in the Early Satellite Age

Sarah Nelson
Radical History Review (2021) 2021 (141): 30–59.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-9170696
Published: 01 October 2021
...Sarah Nelson Abstract International news, and the technological infrastructures required to collect, distribute, and publish it, have long been battlegrounds of imperial ambition and anticolonial contestation. In the early 1960s, press professionals, engineers, and telecom officials from the global...
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A Moonless Night

Solveig Qu Suess
Radical History Review (2023) 2023 (147): 103–110.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-10637190
Published: 01 October 2023
... as an optical engineer, expelled from the Chinese state in 1987 for marrying a Western colleague. “A Moonless Night” offers a reflection on memory, belonging, Cold War politics, and state power. 5. Bazdyrieva and Suess, “Future Forecast.” 6. Haraway, “Situated Knowledges,” 585 . 7. Parikka...
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Getting by in the Foreverscape

Colin Matthes
Radical History Review (2014) 2014 (118): 139–152.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-2350921
Published: 01 January 2014
...Colin Matthes Getting by in the Foreverscape is a survey of Colin Matthes's artwork from 2010 to 2013. His work revolves around economic and environmental calamity. He finds a beauty in individuals and small groups with limited means creating their own solutions to larger problems. He engineers...
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Debating Data Science: A Roundtable

Brian Beaton, Amelia Acker, Lauren Di Monte, Shivrang Setlur, Tonia Sutherland ...
Radical History Review (2017) 2017 (127): 133–148.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-3690918
Published: 01 January 2017
... architecture engineering teams. In this sense, for those working at the intersection of history and STS to concern themselves with the origins of a scientific field, and with the early stages of a scientific profession, is hardly groundbreaking. This roundtable, organized for the 2015 and 2016 meetings...
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Industrial Archeology and Industrial Ecology

T.E. Leary
Radical History Review (1979) 1979 (21): 171–182.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1979-21-171
Published: 01 October 1979
... construction, RADICALHISTORY REVIEW 21 FALL1979 PAGES171-182 172 RADICAL HISTORY REVIEW and transportation by means of the internal combustion engine. Industrial archeology, then, concerns itself with illustrations of a particular stage in the human struggle...
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Traffic Logic and Political Logic

Don Mitchell
Radical History Review (2012) 2012 (114): 165–173.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1598051
Published: 01 October 2012
... engineer was unsure what else a sidewalk could be used for. An engineer in Burnaby [British Columbia] was genuinely surprised to be questioned on what was served by the facilitation of mobility, suggesting that people had always needed to get from point A to point B”; for them (and innumerable other...
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“There Are Lives Here”: The African and African American Cemeteries of the Bonnet Carré Spillway

Robin McDowell
Radical History Review (2023) 2023 (147): 35–54.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-10637147
Published: 01 October 2023
... . Chicago Tribune . “ The Crevasse at Bonnet Carré .” May 12 , 1871 . Concerned Citizens for Ancestors’ Lineages . The Stories the Bones Will Tell . Self-published flyer, 2012 . Earth Search Inc. and United States Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans District . “ Background Research...
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Editors' Introduction

Simon Schaffer, David Serlin, Jennifer Tucker
Radical History Review (2017) 2017 (127): 1–12.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-3690834
Published: 01 January 2017
... studies at the University of California, San Diego. His books include Replaceable You: Engineering the Body in Postwar America (2004); Imagining Illness: Public Health and Visual Culture (2010); and Window Shopping with Helen Keller: Architecture and Disability in Modern Culture (forthcoming). He...
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Technocratic Liberalism and Social Science

Dennis Bryson
Radical History Review (1996) 1996 (64): 118–122.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1996-64-118
Published: 01 January 1996
...Dennis Bryson Copyright © 1996 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 1996 Technocratic Liberalism and Social Science Dennis Bryson John M. Jordan, Machine-Age Ideology: Social Engineering and American Liberalism...
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Circuits of State: Water, Electricity, and Power in Chihuahua, 1905–1936

Jonathan Hill, Jr.
Radical History Review (2017) 2017 (127): 13–38.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-3690846
Published: 01 January 2017
... concrete to trans- form the falling waters of the Conchos River into heat, light, and motor force on a scale that caught the attention of engineers and planners across the globe.1 The reservoir, known as Lago Toronto (Lake Toronto), was equally impressive, eventu- ally stretching fifteen miles...
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Premodern Streams of Thought in Twenty-First-Century Water Management

Ruth A. Morgan, James L. Smith
Radical History Review (2013) 2013 (116): 105–129.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1965748
Published: 01 May 2013
... and engineering thought on twenty-­first-­century water governance.18 The developing dialogue has benefited greatly from the extensive literature on the many imaginings of water, which has fos- tered fresh historical perspectives on water management in the twenty-­first century. We see the dominance...
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Uneven Mobilities: Infrastructural Imaginaries on the Hope–Princeton Highway

Desiree Valadares
Radical History Review (2023) 2023 (147): 158–185.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-10637232
Published: 01 October 2023
... in the wide-scale dispersal of populations of Japanese descent from Canada’s West Coast. At road camps, men were grouped into work gangs, each led by a foreman who reported to supervising engineers. The foreman was typically a white man with experience in the military and the police force. They likely had...
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A Workers Nightmare: Taylorism and the 1962 Yarur Strike in Chile

Peter Winn
Radical History Review (1994) 1994 (58): 4–34.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1994-58-4
Published: 01 January 1994
... Chile, bringing controversy and conflict in its wake. TAYLORISM IN CHILE/ll The father of "scientific management," Taylor was a North American industrial engineer who had developed his ideas while working for the Midland Steel Company during the late...
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A Workers Nightmare: Taylorism and the 1962 Yarur Strike in Chile

Peter Winn
Radical History Review (1994) 1994 (58): 5–34.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1994-58-5
Published: 01 January 1994
... Chile, bringing controversy and conflict in its wake. TAYLORISM IN CHILE/ll The father of "scientific management," Taylor was a North American industrial engineer who had developed his ideas while working for the Midland Steel Company during the late...
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Confronting African Histories of Technology: A Conversation with Keith Breckenridge and Gabrielle Hecht

David Serlin
Radical History Review (2017) 2017 (127): 87–102.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-3690870
Published: 01 January 2017
...: Engineering the Body in Postwar America (2004); Imagining Illness: Public Health and Visual Culture (2010); and Window Shopping with Helen Keller: Architecture and Disability in Modern Culture (forthcoming). He is a member of the editorial collective for the Radical History Review and a founding co...
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Black Labor And Technological Change At A National Historic Landmark: Sloss Furnaces, Birmingham, Alabama.

Alex Lichtenstein
Radical History Review (1993) 1993 (56): 119–126.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1993-56-119
Published: 01 May 1993
... a day from the ”notch at the base of the furnace was a product of a complex process depend- ent on a vast assemblage of machinery to harness the raw energy needed to put a furnace “in blast.” Rail line spurs and hoists for iron ore and coke, enormous engines to pump air, twelve tall...
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