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SUMMARY:The dream of orderly development: selling the importance of scienc
 e in Arctic North America after 1945 - Peder Roberts (University of Stavan
 ger)
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CONTACT:Lewis Bremner
DESCRIPTION:(Part of a joint project with Lize-Marié van der Watt)\n\nTow
 ards the end of the Second World War\, individuals in Canada and the Unite
 d States saw environmental information collected by the US military as a r
 esource for the economic and social development of Arctic North America. F
 rom this agitation arose the Arctic Institute of North America (AINA)\, a 
 private US-Canadian organization founded in 1944 to encourage and direct n
 orthern research within a broader framework of 'orderly development'. The 
 term presumed a dichotomy not between development and its absence\, but be
 tween more or less application of knowledge to optimise development. My ai
 m is to explore how AINA asserted the importance of orderly development wi
 thin the context of expanded state funding for science – but also anxiet
 ies (particularly in the Canadian government) toward the value of academic
  research for state administration\, and continued US power over Canadian 
 spaces. Wider debates over the importance of curiosity-driven over mission
 -oriented research met more local debates over who (and what) constituted 
 a socially and politically appropriate source of expertise. Not uniquely\,
  orderly development guided by science increasingly became a justification
  for maintaining spending on northern research projects as an end in itsel
 f. I conclude with reflections on how its apostles scrambled to retain aut
 hority in the late 1960s when environmental concerns grew\, and when the P
 rudhoe Bay oil strike sparked massive interest in the North American Arcti
 c – despite rather than because of science-backed planning.
LOCATION:Arts School Lecture Theatre A
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