In 1943 the Rockefeller foundation, nominally in partnership with the Mexican government, initiated its Mexican Agriculture Program (MAP). Over the [...]
31 October, 2017
Thesis Abstract – 31 October, 2017
Rene Descartes – Principles of Philosophy
Rene Descartes, A Discourse on Method, Meditations on the First Philosophy, Principles of Philosophy, trans. John Veitch (New York: Dutton, 1975). Response [...]
30 October, 2017
Schaffer and Shapin’s “playing the stranger” to eschew the “self-evident method” as a methodology for questioning the basic assumptions of the Western episteme on behalf of indigenous epistemes
22 October, 2017
Description of John Gadbury – De Cometis (1665)
John Gadbury, De Cometis, 1665. John Gadbury’s 1665 publication De Cometis, written in response to the three comets that appeared between 1664 and 1665, [...]
18 October, 2017
Anthony Bebbington – Modernization from below: An Alternative Indigenous Development?
Anthony Bebbington, “Modernization from below: An Alternative Indigenous Development?” Economic Geography 69, no. 3 (July 1993), 274-292. 274 [...]
18 October, 2017
Russel Barsch – Who Steals Indigenous Knowledge
Russel Lawrence Barsch, “Who Steals Indigenous Knowledge?” Proceedings of the Annual Meeting (American Society of International Law (April [...]
18 October, 2017
Vandana Shiva – Bioprospecting as Sophisticated Biopiracy
Vandana Shiva, “Bioprospecting as Sophisticated Biopiracy,” Signs 32, no. 2 (Winter 2007), 307-313. 307 – “Bioprospecting is a term that [...]
16 October, 2017
John Bainbridge Historiography
Setting John Bainbridge’s An Astronomicall Description of the Late Comet in its historiographic context is less a matter of recounting an obvious and [...]
16 October, 2017
Eugene Hunn – Meeting of minds: how do we share our appreciation of traditional environmental knowledge?
Eugene Hunn, “Meeting of minds: how do we share our appreciation of traditional environmental knowledge?,”The Journal of the Royal [...]
16 October, 2017
Erik Gomez-Baggethun & Victoria Reyes-Garcia – Reinterpreting Change in Traditional Ecological Knowledge
Erik Gomez-Baggethun & Victoria Reyes-Garcia, “Reinterpreting Change in Traditional Ecological Knowledge,” Human Ecology 41, no. 4 (August [...]
15 October, 2017
John Bainbridge – An Astronomicall Description of the late Comet
The 1619 Edward Griffin-published version of John Bainbridge’s An Astronomicall Description of the late Comet’s paratext is composed of a title page, a [...]
6 October, 2017
Miguel Altieri et al. – Agroecology: The Scientific Basis of Alternative Agriculture
Miguel Altieri, et al., Agroecology: The Scientific Basis of Alternative Agriculture (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1987). Notes Xiii – “Nevertheless, [...]
2 October, 2017
Two Epistemic Conceptions – Mechanistic & Agroecological
1 October, 2017
