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HISTORY, SCIENCE & SOCIETY in the solar assemblage Dr. Jamie Cross Social Anthropology University of Edinburgh
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GLOBAL HISTORIES Bell Laboratories, United States 1954
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HUMIDITY & THE TROPICS
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‘What to do with our new baby?’ - Daryl Chapin
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“We must embark on a bold new program for making the benefits of our scientific advances and industrial progress available for the improvement and growth of underdeveloped areas.” - Harry S. Truman 1949 ‘DEVELOPMENT’
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WEST AFRICA
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GONDEL, NIGER 1968
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1973 THE SAHEL
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1973 CORSICA, FRANCE
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1978 KONI & NABASSO, MALI
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THE FIELD LABORATORY
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DETERIORATIONORGANISATION
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“Technical objects have political strength…They may change social relationships but they also stabilize, naturalise, depoliticise and translate these into other media… technical objects build our history for us.” - Madelaine Akrich (1992) HISTORY, SCIENCE AND SOCIETY
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THE 100 th OBJECT
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