{"id":1434,"date":"2026-08-17T11:57:33","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T15:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cienciasysaberes.org\/?p=1434"},"modified":"2026-08-17T11:57:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T15:57:33","slug":"stefan-pohl-valero-publishes-chapter-in-edited-volume-on-popular-science-during-the-cold-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cienciasysaberes.org\/pt-br\/stefan-pohl-valero-publishes-chapter-in-edited-volume-on-popular-science-during-the-cold-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Stefan Pohl Valero Publishes Chapter in Edited Volume on Popular Science during the Cold War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Stefan Pohl Valero from the Universidad del Rosario, Colombia, has recently published a chapter in the edited volume <em>Science Popularisation as Cultural Diplomacy in Cold War UNESCO<\/em>. The volume, published by Routledge, was edited by Andr\u00e9e Bergeron, Agusti Nieto-Galan, Jaume Sastre-Juan. Dr. Pohl&#8217;s chapter is entitled &#8220;\u2018Food and People\u2019 or How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love International Development: A Global South Narrative.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>From the author: &#8220;This chapter analyzes UNESCO\u2019s Food and People project by situating it within the organization\u2019s early commitment to scientific humanism and within broader U.S. agendas for international development. It argues that the project also reflected transnational entanglements from the Global South that shaped how UNESCO articulated science, education, and technical assistance. The chapter reconstructs how the initiative emerged from expert discussions on popularizing the social implications of science. Although initially influenced by leading figures such as Julian Huxley and Joseph Needham\u2014associated with scientific humanism and population concerns\u2014it soon incorporated the perspectives of lesser-known contributors. American sociologists, for instance, reframed its aims toward shaping public attitudes about technological change and international aid. With the arrival of Mexican educator Jaime Torres Bodet as UNESCO\u2019s director-general in 1948, the Food and People project became embedded in the agency\u2019s fundamental education program, designed to promote community development and improve living standards in poor countries. As a result, the project took on a more explicitly educational character and drew on the experience of Latin American experts for its final design and implementation. Ultimately, the chapter broadens dominant themes in the history of science, the Cold War, and international development, while complicating North-centric narratives of these relationships.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You can learn more about the edited volume <a href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/Science-Popularisation-as-Cultural-Diplomacy-in-Cold-War-UNESCO-1946\/Agusti-Nieto-Galan-Bergeron-Sastre-Juan\/p\/book\/9789048562961\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Stefan Pohl Valero from the Universidad del Rosario, Colombia, has recently published a chapter in the edited volume Science Popularisation as Cultural Diplomacy in Cold War UNESCO. The volume, published by Routledge, was edited by Andr&eacute;e Bergeron, Agusti Nieto-Galan, Jaume Sastre-Juan. Dr. Pohl&rsquo;s chapter is entitled &ldquo;&lsquo;Food and People&rsquo; or How We Learned to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":1437,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"language":[],"class_list":["post-1434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cienciasysaberes.org\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cienciasysaberes.org\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cienciasysaberes.org\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cienciasysaberes.org\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cienciasysaberes.org\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1434"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cienciasysaberes.org\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1450,"href":"https:\/\/cienciasysaberes.org\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434\/revisions\/1450"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cienciasysaberes.org\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cienciasysaberes.org\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cienciasysaberes.org\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cienciasysaberes.org\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1434"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cienciasysaberes.org\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=1434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}