Edwards, Paul N. (Author)
Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Volume: 21
Pages: 229--250
Publication date: 2006
Language: English
Edition Details: Volume title: Global Power Knowledge: Science and Technology in International Affairs
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 quasi-obligatory 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.
...MoreDescription On the history of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) from the19th century to the 1960s.
Article Krige, John; Barth, Kai-Henrik (2006) Introduction: Science, Technology, and International Affairs. Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 1).
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