For this session we'll be reading about agricultural technologies and postcolonial resistance.
Silva Garzón, Diego and Laura Gutiérrez Escobar. "Revolturas: resisting multinational seed corporations and legal seed regimes through seed-saving practices and activism in Colombia." The Journal of Peasant Studies 47, no. 4 (2020): 674–699. 10.1080/03066150.2019.1668780
Saraiva, Tiago. "California Cloning in French Algeria: Rooting Pieds Noirs and Uprooting Fellahs in the Orange Groves of the Mitidja". In How Knowledge Moves, edited by John Krige, 95–119. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019. https://idiscover.lib.cam.ac.uk/permalink/f/1nb04c1/TN_cdi_askewsholts_vlebooks_9780226606040
The Greenhouse is a meeting place for students and researchers interested the history and sociology of plants, food, agriculture and environment to explore how science and technology shape what we grow and eat. The regular programme of papers and discussions is curated in conjunction with the project From Collection to Cultivation, which is funded by the Wellcome Trust.
The reading group is open to all. We meet from 1-2pm on Thursdays, fortnightly during Cambridge term time, to discuss papers or presentations. We're currently meeting via Zoom, with access information circulated prior to the sessions via our mailing list. Write to us at hps-cultivation@lists.cam.ac.uk to subscribe.
This term's theme is "Histories of Biotechnology and Agriculture".
