Governing rice: The politics of experimentation in global agriculture
نام عام مواد
[Thesis]
نام ساير پديدآوران
;supervisor: Jasanoff, Sheila
وضعیت نشر و پخش و غیره
نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره
Harvard University: United States -- Massachusetts
تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره
: 2008
مشخصات ظاهری
نام خاص و کميت اثر
251 pages
یادداشتهای مربوط به پایان نامه ها
جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن
Ph.D.
کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده
, Harvard University: United States -- Massachusetts
یادداشتهای مربوط به خلاصه یا چکیده
متن يادداشت
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.
موضوع (اسم عام یاعبارت اسمی عام)
موضوع مستند نشده
Cultural anthropology
موضوع مستند نشده
Science history
موضوع مستند نشده
Political science
اصطلاحهای موضوعی کنترل نشده
اصطلاح موضوعی
Rice
اصطلاح موضوعی
Agriculture
اصطلاح موضوعی
Science studies
اصطلاح موضوعی
Governance
اصطلاح موضوعی
Globalization
اصطلاح موضوعی
Biotechnology
اصطلاح موضوعی
Experimentation
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