عنوان
پدید آورنده
موضوع
رده
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER
Country Code
IR
Number
262T
LANGUAGE OF THE ITEM
.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc
انگلیسی
COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION OR PRODUCTlON
Country of publication
IR
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
Governing rice: The politics of experimentation in global agriculture
General Material Designation
[Thesis]
Subsequent Statement of Responsibility
;supervisor: Jasanoff, Sheila
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Harvard University: United States -- Massachusetts
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
: 2008
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
251 pages
DISSERTATION (THESIS) NOTE
Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree
Ph.D.
Body granting the degree
, Harvard University: United States -- Massachusetts
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
Drawing on approaches in science studies and anthropology, this dissertation is a contemporary history and ethnography of rice experimentation and of agricultural life sciences more broadly. It identifies the politics and policy choices that are integral to the work of science and technology, and that occur through the efforts of non-state actors, using rice as a case study. In these spaces, the exercise of power comprises a form of gover nance that is both more diffuse and more pervasive than the work of govern ments .Rice technosciences and governance strategies are evolving and shaping one another at multiple sites and scales, from the national to the global. I analyze power flows in global policy-making for science and technology by examining a range of non-state institutions across time periods, from the development of molecular biology in the early to mid-twentieth century through developments in agricultural biotechnology from the 1980s to the present.I argue that the emergence of governance through technoscience can be seen particularly through social and technoscientific representations and through shifting conceptions of the boundary between "public" and "private" domains. This dissertation shows that governance will be troubled from a democratic standpoint if it occurs without explicit awareness of how the production of new scientific knowledge extends the exercise of power into non-transparent and non-reflexive domains of policy-making.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Cultural anthropology
Science history
Political science
UNCONTROLLED SUBJECT TERMS
Subject Term
Rice
Subject Term
Agriculture
Subject Term
Science studies
Subject Term
Governance
Subject Term
Globalization
Subject Term
Biotechnology
Subject Term
Experimentation
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Smith, Elta C.
PERSONAL NAME - SECONDARY RESPONSIBILITY
Jasanoff, Sheila, supervisor
ORIGINATING SOURCE
Country
ایران
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