The Greenhouse: Gender, Race, and the Green Revolution

For this session we'll be reading about gender, race, and the Green Revolution.

Aaron Eddens. ‘White Science and Indigenous Maize: The Racial Logics of the Green Revolution.’ The Journal of Peasant Studies 46, no. 3 (2019): 653–673.

Timothy W Lorek. ‘The Puerto Rican Connection: Recovering the “Cultural Triangle” in Global Histories of Agricultural Development.’ Agricultural History 94, no. 1 (2020): 108–40. 

Moses Mosonsieyiri Kansanga, Roger Antabe, Yujiro Sano, Sarah Mason-Renton, and Isaac Luginaah. ‘A Feminist Political Ecology of Agricultural Mechanization and Evolving Gendered On-farm Labor Dyanmics in Northern Ghana.’ Gender, Technology and Development 23, no. 3 (2019): 207–233.

The Greenhouse is a meeting place for students and researchers interested in 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 12-1pm on Tuesdays 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 reading group mailing list. Write to us at hps-greenhouse@lists.cam.ac.uk to subscribe.

This term's theme is the Green Revolution.