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Manufacturing hands: robot fingers and human labour in post-war Japan 制造业之手:战后日本的机器人手指和人类劳动力
IF 1.2 1区 历史学 Q1 HISTORY Pub Date : 2022-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/07341512.2022.2129279
Yulia Frumer
ABSTRACT This article argues that automation engineering in 1960s Japan was rooted in colonial attitudes towards human labour, which were tacitly present in Japan even decades after its defeat in World War II. I make this argument by examining the development of Japan’s first modern robot, a three-fingered mechanical hand designed by Tokyo University graduate student Yamashita Tadashi in 1963. Exploring Yamashita’s methods, the data he relied on, and the literature he drew inspiration from reveals that his design was modelled on human hands. Yamashita and his contemporaries were influenced by colonial assumptions about labour. Specifically, they accepted a tacit division of workers into two kinds: the engaged and cherished Japanese citizen; and the hardy, silent, colonial subject to whom fell the most dangerous and undesirable work. As Yamashita worked to make an autonomous and versatile robot, he recast its image as an engaged and cherished worker, paving the way for the Japanese reconceptualization of robots as friends. Retracing Yamashita’s process of making a robotic hand thus reveals that the automation of labour is predicated on the perceptions of humans whose labour robots are intended to replace.
摘要本文认为,20世纪60年代日本的自动化工程根植于对人类劳动的殖民态度,这种态度在日本二战战败几十年后仍然默认存在。我通过研究日本第一个现代机器人的发展来提出这个论点,这是一个三指机械手,由东京大学研究生山下忠在1963年设计。通过对山下的方法、他所依赖的数据和他从中获得灵感的文献的研究,我们发现他的设计是以人手为模型的。山下和他同时代的人受到殖民时期关于劳工的假设的影响。具体来说,他们接受了一种默认的劳动者分为两类:敬业和珍爱的日本公民;还有那些吃苦耐劳、沉默寡言的殖民地臣民,他们承担着最危险、最不受欢迎的工作。在Yamashita致力于制造一个自主、多功能的机器人的过程中,他将机器人重塑为一个敬业、受人珍视的工人形象,为日本人将机器人重新定义为朋友铺平了道路。因此,回顾Yamashita制造机械手的过程可以发现,劳动自动化是基于人类的感知,而人类的劳动是机器人要取代的。
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Making history: technologies of production and the estate of knowledge in East Asia 创造历史:东亚的生产技术和知识遗产
IF 1.2 1区 历史学 Q1 HISTORY Pub Date : 2022-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/07341512.2022.2159132
V. Seow, D. Schäfer
ABSTRACT How did production, the making of things, come to be regarded as an inferior part of the process from the conceptualization of a commodity to its consumption? And how did East Asia, which has long been a place of production, come concurrently to be dismissed by other global actors on account of that fact and denied the potential for innovation? Through detailed case studies of making and doing from the early modern and modern eras, our special issue critically engages with the division between production and knowledge that lies at the heart of those dominant narratives. In this introductory essay, we suggest that our effort to return attention to production elucidates its role as an ‘estate of knowledge’ – a site deemed by individuals and societies to be where knowledge lies, where innovation is believed to take place – and helps to explain the geography of difference that has defined the global history of manufacturing and East Asia’s place within it.
从商品的概念化到消费的过程中,生产,即制造物品的过程是如何被视为次等部分的?而长期以来作为生产基地的东亚,又是如何因此而遭到其他全球参与者的排斥,并被剥夺了创新的潜力?通过对早期现代和现代时代的制作和行为的详细案例研究,我们的特刊批判性地探讨了处于这些主导叙事核心的生产和知识之间的划分。在这篇介绍性的文章中,我们建议,我们将注意力回归到生产上的努力阐明了它作为“知识庄园”的角色——一个被个人和社会认为是知识所在的地方,创新被认为是发生的地方——并有助于解释定义了全球制造业历史和东亚在其中地位的地理差异。
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Disaster (continued): Sewol Ferry investigations, state violence, and political history in South Korea 灾难(续):世越号调查、国家暴力和韩国政治史
IF 1.2 1区 历史学 Q1 HISTORY Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/07341512.2022.2094700
C. Jeon, S. Knowles, Sang-Eun Park
ABSTRACT The Special Investigation Commission on the 4/16 Sewol Ferry Disaster offers a case in which the process of disaster investigation becomes a part, even a continuation, of the disaster for which it is created to bring closure. Placing the investigation in a longer temporality reveals obscured historical factors that shaped the investigation and its aftermath in surprising and crucial ways. Throughout the highly politicized process of deciding to investigate, what and whom to investigate, and how, disaster investigations can exacerbate the complexity of the disaster and the suffering of the victims and their families. What seems at first a technical and straightforward problem often turns out to be historically rooted and deeply contentious. In the case of the Sewol Ferry Disaster investigations, the process of creating an independent commission in a polarized political milieu unexpectedly formed a venue for evoking, drawing on, and re-experiencing state violence across generations. The Sewol Commission was modeled after earlier truth and reconciliation commissions in Korea, whose focus on individual ‘cases’ of political violence shaped how the Sewol investigation was conceptualized. As it turned out, the closure of the Sewol Commission closed nothing but the commission itself; the tragedy of the Sewol lingered.
4·16世越号事故特别调查委员会提供了一个案例,在这个案例中,灾难调查过程成为灾难的一部分,甚至是灾难的延续,而它的成立是为了结束灾难。把调查放在一个较长的时间点上,揭示了一些模糊的历史因素,这些因素以令人惊讶和关键的方式塑造了调查及其后果。在决定调查、调查什么、调查谁以及如何调查的高度政治化的过程中,灾难调查可能会加剧灾难的复杂性以及受害者及其家属的痛苦。起初看似简单的技术问题,结果往往是历史根源和深刻的争议。就世越号惨案调查而言,在两极化的政治环境中,成立独立调查委员会的过程出人意料地成为了唤起、借鉴和重新体验几代人之间国家暴力的场所。世越号调查委员会是以韩国早期的真相与和解委员会为蓝本的,后者关注的是政治暴力的个别“案例”,形成了世越号调查的概念。事实证明,世越号调查委员会的关闭只关闭了委员会本身。世越号的悲剧挥之不去。
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‘Sovereignty of the air’: The Indian princely states, the British Empire and carving out of air-space (1911–1933) “空中主权”:印度土邦、大英帝国与空域分割(1911-1933)
IF 1.2 1区 历史学 Q1 HISTORY Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/07341512.2022.2079370
P. Mirza
ABSTRACT Who owns the skies? Under British colonialism, the ownership of the skies of India was a contested matter. The onset of aviation presented a challenge to the territorial understanding between the British and semi-sovereign Indian princes, Paramountcy (1858–1947). Technology itself was a tricky area: roadways, railways, telegraphs, and the wireless were nibbling away at the sovereign spheres which Paramountcy had put in place. This paper looks at the history of aviation in princely India, from aviation enthusiasts such as the rulers of Kapurthala, Jodhpur and Bikaner to subversive princes like the Maharaja of Patiala who worked towards a military air force. The paper tracks the three stages of the journey of aviation in princely India, from individual consumption, to the historical context of World War One which aided its access and usage, and finally, the collective princely legal assertion over the vertical air above them in the position, ‘sovereignty of air’. The government’s civil aviation policy in India remained ambiguous about the princes’ rights over the air till 1931 when their sovereignty of the sky was finally recognised. The paper focuses on the Indian princes varied engagement with aviation, modernity and their space in the world.
谁拥有天空?在英国殖民统治下,印度的天空所有权是一个有争议的问题。航空的出现对英国和半主权的印度君主之间的领土理解提出了挑战,即paramounity(1858-1947)。技术本身就是一个棘手的领域:公路、铁路、电报和无线都在蚕食着最高统制所确立的主权领域。本文考察了印度王公的航空历史,从卡普尔塔拉、焦特布尔和比卡内尔的统治者等航空爱好者,到像帕蒂拉王公这样致力于建立军事空军的颠覆性王子。这篇论文追踪了印度王子式航空旅行的三个阶段,从个人消费,到第一次世界大战的历史背景,这有助于它的获取和使用,最后,集体王子式的法律主张,在他们之上的垂直空中,“空中主权”。直到1931年,印度政府的民航政策对王子的空中权利一直模棱两可,直到他们对天空的主权最终得到承认。本文主要关注印度王子对航空、现代化及其在世界上的空间的不同参与。
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The training in France of Spanish nuclear personnel, c. 1950s–1990s 约1950 - 1990年在法国培训西班牙核人员
IF 1.2 1区 历史学 Q1 HISTORY Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/07341512.2022.2076402
Esther M. Sánchez Sánchez
ABSTRACT Foreign assistance was decisive in the formation of the teams in charge of nuclear science, technology and industry in Spain. France played a key role from the end of World War Two, assisting Spanish expertise in all stages of the uranium cycle, from mining to disposal. In this paper, after examining the configuration of the French nuclear complex and the start of French-Spanish cooperation, we will focus on the training of Spanish nuclear personnel, in both the scientific-technical and the industrial side. We will try to prove the importance of France in the whole Western nuclear assistance, and also that, though France was unable to supplant the United States, it was able to grab significant projects and influence in Spain. In the end, nuclear learning proved to be a cumulative and mutual (not symmetrical) process, which far exceeded the temporal, geographical and sectorial limits initially marked out.
国外援助在西班牙组建负责核科学、技术和工业的团队方面起了决定性作用。从第二次世界大战结束起,法国就发挥了关键作用,在铀循环的各个阶段,从开采到处置,都向西班牙提供了专业帮助。在本文中,在审查了法国核综合设施的结构和法国-西班牙合作的开始之后,我们将集中讨论在科学技术和工业方面培训西班牙核人员的问题。我们将努力证明法国在整个西方核援助中的重要性,而且,尽管法国无法取代美国,但它能够在西班牙获得重大项目和影响力。最后,核学习被证明是一个累积和相互(非对称)的过程,远远超出了最初划定的时间、地理和部门限制。
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About the Cover 关于封面
IF 1.2 1区 历史学 Q1 HISTORY Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/07341512.2022.2101831
A. Slaton, Tiago Saraiva
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Turning DDT into ‘Didimac’: Making insecticide products and consumers in British farming after 1945 把DDT变成“Didimac”:1945年后英国农业生产杀虫剂产品和消费者
IF 1.2 1区 历史学 Q1 HISTORY Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/07341512.2022.2085492
Sabine Clarke, T. Lean
ABSTRACT This paper examines the adoption of DDT and other insecticides in British farming after 1945 to consider the notion that new synthetic insecticides were taken up rapidly. It shows that the uptake of chemical insecticides during the 1940s and 1950s was slower in many agricultural sectors than accounts have often suggested, and slower than the uptake of other agrochemicals, such as herbicides. Importantly, this paper shows that the extent of use before 1965 varied a great deal according to crop or farming sector and also according to the type of insecticide product. Historians have not sufficiently engaged with the fact that farmers did not purchase the raw chemicals, DDT or BHC, they bought insecticide products – a diverse range of formulations for spraying, dusting or the treatment of seeds. This paper shows how the adoption of insecticidal products on a large scale in the post-war period resulted from various types of work by business and government. The very close relationship between state and business gained its legitimacy from its location in a historical moment in which greater output and efficiency in farming had become a national goal.
本文考察了1945年后英国农业中滴滴涕和其他杀虫剂的使用情况,以考虑新型合成杀虫剂被迅速采用的概念。报告显示,在20世纪40年代和50年代期间,许多农业部门的化学杀虫剂的吸收比经常提出的说法要慢,而且比除草剂等其他农用化学品的吸收要慢。重要的是,这篇论文表明,1965年以前的使用程度根据作物或农业部门以及杀虫剂产品的类型有很大的不同。历史学家没有充分认识到这样一个事实,即农民没有购买原料化学品,滴滴涕或六六六,他们购买的是杀虫剂产品——用于喷洒、撒粉或处理种子的各种配方。本文说明了在战后时期杀虫剂产品的大规模使用是由企业和政府的各种工作造成的。国家和企业之间非常密切的关系从它所处的历史时刻获得了合法性,在这个时刻,提高农业产量和效率已成为国家的目标。
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Wind power and rural modernization: wind-powered water supply systems in northern Germany and southern France, 1880–1950 风力发电和农村现代化:德国北部和法国南部的风力供水系统,1880-1950
IF 1.2 1区 历史学 Q1 HISTORY Pub Date : 2021-10-02 DOI: 10.1080/07341512.2022.2033388
Nicole Hesse
ABSTRACT The article analyzes mechanical wind-powered water supply systems situated in southern France and northern Germany in the time period between 1880 and 1950, when wind energy was not yet framed as a renewable, but as a rural, decentralized, and manageable solution to generate energy. Using a local approach, I highlight wind energy use in rural areas of Western societies as part of the non-synchronical process of technological modernization that unfolded at the same time as electrification, industrialization, and the implementation of large technological systems. I develop my argument in two steps. First, I provide the micro-historical case studies to examine socio-technological contexts that motivated people to advocate for the use of wind energy in times of electrification and industrialization. Second, I show the connection to general and specific contemporary discourses about wind energy and energy futures in order to provide evidence that the wind projects were part of rural modernization processes.
本文分析了1880年至1950年期间位于法国南部和德国北部的机械风力供水系统,当时风能尚未被视为可再生能源,而是作为农村,分散和可管理的解决方案来产生能源。我采用当地的方法,强调西方社会农村地区的风能利用是与电气化、工业化和大型技术系统的实施同时展开的非同步技术现代化进程的一部分。我的论点分两步展开。首先,我提供了微观历史案例研究,以检查促使人们在电气化和工业化时代倡导使用风能的社会技术背景。其次,我展示了与风能和能源未来的一般和具体的当代话语的联系,以提供风能项目是农村现代化进程的一部分的证据。
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Eliminating fossil fuels: Iceland’s transition from coal and oil to geothermal district heating, 1930–1980 消除化石燃料:冰岛从煤炭和石油到地热区域供热的转变,1930-1980
IF 1.2 1区 历史学 Q1 HISTORY Pub Date : 2021-10-02 DOI: 10.1080/07341512.2022.2033386
Odinn Melsted
ABSTRACT Between 1930 and 1980, Iceland’s heating sector was decarbonized,as geothermal district heating utilities became the common form of heating. The ‘elimination’ of fuels in heating, as Icelanders called it,entailed the replacement of imported coal and oil with domestically available geothermal energy. Analyzing which natural, technological, social and economic factors helped – or hindered – the breakthrough of geothermal heating, I examine three phases: (1) the construction of the first urban geothermal utility in Reykjavík in 1930–1944, (2) the following phase of largely unsuccessful attempts to build similar utilities in the rest of the country, and (3) the complete elimination of fuels in heating during the 1970s. The central argument is that the shift to geothermal heating depended on geothermal resources being made available by applying suitable technologies and the societal will to both abandon the predominant forms of heating with fuels and invest in the construction of geothermal infrastructures.
1930年至1980年间,冰岛的供热部门脱碳,地热区域供热公用事业成为常见的供热形式。冰岛人所说的“消除”取暖燃料,需要用国内可用的地热能取代进口的煤炭和石油。分析哪些自然、技术、社会和经济因素帮助或阻碍了地热供暖的突破,我考察了三个阶段:(1)1930-1944年在Reykjavík建立第一个城市地热公用设施,(2)接下来的阶段,在全国其他地方建立类似的公用设施的尝试基本上不成功,(3)在20世纪70年代完全消除了供暖中的燃料。中心论点是,向地热供暖的转变取决于通过应用适当的技术获得地热资源和社会意愿,即放弃主要的燃料供暖形式和投资建设地热基础设施。
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Lessons from a forgotten fuel: assessing the long history of alcohol fuel advocacy and use in the United States 被遗忘的燃料的教训:评估美国酒精燃料倡导和使用的悠久历史
IF 1.2 1区 历史学 Q1 HISTORY Pub Date : 2021-10-02 DOI: 10.1080/07341512.2022.2026134
Jeffrey T. Manuel
ABSTRACT Debates over biofuels in the twenty-first century rarely consider the long history of producing and consuming biofuels. This article assesses that long history of biofuels in the United States. First, the article periodizes a century and a half of biofuels into six distinct eras: (1) the camphene era (1830s-1860s) when alcohol was used for illumination, (2) the early automobile era (1900–1920) when alcohol was pitted against gasoline in internal combustion engines, (3) the rural development era (1920s-1930s) when alcohol fuels were promoted to help farmers, (4) the energy crisis era (1970s-1980s) when alcohol fuels extended tight fuel supplies, (5) the environmentalism era (1990s-2001) when alcohol fuels were promoted as cleaner than gasoline, and (6) the energy security era (2001-present) when alcohol fuels were used to achieve energy security. Second, the article argues that biofuels’ history illustrates broader themes in the history (and likely future) of renewable energy.
21世纪关于生物燃料的争论很少考虑到生物燃料生产和消费的悠久历史。这篇文章评估了美国生物燃料的悠久历史。首先,这篇文章将一个半世纪的生物燃料划分为六个不同的时代:(1) camphene时代(19世纪30年代至19世纪60年代),酒精被用于照明;(2)早期汽车时代(1900年至1920年),酒精在内燃机中与汽油竞争;(3)农村发展时代(20世纪20年代至30年代),酒精燃料被推广以帮助农民;(4)能源危机时代(70年代至80年代),酒精燃料延长了紧张的燃料供应;(5)环保主义时代(90年代至2001年),酒精燃料被宣传为比汽油更清洁。(6)能源安全时代(2001年至今),使用酒精燃料来实现能源安全。其次,这篇文章认为,生物燃料的历史说明了可再生能源历史(以及可能的未来)中更广泛的主题。
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