6 March, 2018
“Arado de Tubo” Planting Implement
Robert V. Burke – Green Revolution Technologies and Farm Class in Mexico
Robert V. Burke, “Green Revolution Technologies and Farm Class in Mexico,” Economic Development and Cultural Change 28, no. 1 (Oct. 1979), [...]
6 March, 2018
Clifton R. Wharton Jr. – The Green Revolution: Cornucopia or Pandora’s Box
Clifton R. Wharton Jr., “The Green Revolution: Cornucopia or Pandora’s Box,” Foreign Affairs 47, no. 3 (Apr. 1969), 464-476. Notes 464 [...]
2 March, 2018
James H. Street – The Technological Frontier in Latin America: Creativity and Productivity
James H. Street, “The Technological Frontier in Latin America: Creativity and Productivity,” Journal of Economic Issues 10, no. 3 (Sep. 1976), [...]
2 March, 2018
Jorge Martinez Rios – Las Invasiones Agrarias en Mexico (o la Crisis del Modelo de Incorporacion-participacion Marginal)
Ríos, Jorge Martínez. “Las Invasiones Agrarias En México: (O La Crisis Del Modelo De Incorporación-participación Marginal).” Revista Mexicana [...]
1 March, 2018
Ernest Feder – Notes on the New Penetration of the Agricultures of Developing Countries by Industial Nations
Ernest Feder, “Notes on the New Penetration of the Agricultures of Developing Countries by Industial Nations,” Boletin de Estudio [...]
1 March, 2018
E.C. Stakman, Richard Bradfield, Paul C. Mangelsdorf – Campaigns Against Hunger
E.C. Stakman, Richard Bradfield, Paul C. Mangelsdorf, Campaigns Against Hunger (Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1967). Notes Note militaristic language of the title [...]
28 February, 2018
Karin Matchett – At Odds over Inbreeding: An Abandoned Attempt at Mexico/United States Collaboration to ‘Improve’ Mexican Corn, 1940-1950
Karin Matchett, “At Odds over Inbreeding: An Abandoned Attempt at Mexico/United States Collaboration to ‘Improve’ Mexican Corn, [...]
27 February, 2018
Billie R. DeWalt – Alternative Adaptive Strategies in a Mexican Ejido: A New Perspective on Modernization and Development
Billie R. DeWalt, “Alternative Adaptive Strategies in a Mexican Ejido: A New Perspective on Modernization and Development,” Human Organization [...]
27 February, 2018
William I. Jones – Mexico’s Puebla Project: Is there Hope for the Minifundias?
William I. Jones, “Mexico’s Puebla Project: Is there Hope for the Minifundias?,” Ekistics 36, no. 217 (Dec. 1973), 395-397. Notes 395 [...]
26 February, 2018
Carlos A. Benito – Peasants’ Response to Modernization Projects in “Minifundia” Economies
Carlos A. Benito, “Peasants’ Response to Modernization Projects in “Minifundia” Economies,” American Journal of Agricultural [...]
25 February, 2018
Harry M. Cleaver Jr. – Contradictions of the Green Revolution
Harry M. Cleaver Jr., “Contradictions of the Green Revolution,” The American Economic Review 62, no. 1/2 (Mar. 1972), 177-186. Notes 180-181 [...]
25 February, 2018
Harry M. Cleaver Jr. – Las Contradicciones de la “Revolucion Verde”: Algunas Contradicciones del Capitalismo
Harry M. Cleaver Jr., “Las Contradicciones de la “Revolucion Verde”: Algunas Contradicciones del Capitalismo,” Investigacion [...]
24 February, 2018
“Hybrid corn was the invention of a method of inventing, a method of breeding superior corn for specific localities. It was not a single invention immediately adaptable everywhere. The actual breeding of adaptable hybrids had to be done separately for each area.” From Zvi Griliches, “Hybrid Corn: An Exploration in the Economics of Technological Change” […]
22 February, 2018
Zvi Griliches – Hybrid Corn: An Exploration in the Economics of Technological Change
Zvi Griliches, “Hybrid Corn: An Exploration in the Economics of Technological Change,” Econometrica 25, no. 4 (Oct. 1957), 501-522. Notes 501 [...]
22 February, 2018
Elihu Katz, Martin Levin and Herbert Hamilton – Traditions of Research on the Diffusion of Innovation
Elihu Katz, Martin Levin and Herbert Hamilton, “Traditions of Research on the Diffusion of Innovation,” American Sociological Review 28, no. 2 [...]
22 February, 2018
V. W. Ruttan and Yujiro Hayami – Technology Transfer and Agricultural Development
V. W. Ruttan and Yujiro Hayami, “Technology Transfer and Agricultural Development,” Technology and Culture 14, no. 2 (April 1973), 119-151. [...]
22 February, 2018
How do we deal with an episode of epistemic colonialism invited by the to-be-colonized? Must we establish that the invitation of the Rockefeller Foundation program by the Mexican government does not represent an autonomous decision by every denizen of that government? Can we establish, somehow, that to indigenous groups within Mexico, the Mexican federal government […]
22 February, 2018
Alfonso Gonzalez – Problems of Agricultural Development in a Pioneer Region of Southwestern Coastal Mexico
Alfonso Gonzalez, “Problems of Agricultural Development in a Pioneer Region of Southwestern Coastal Mexico,” Revista Geografica 64 (June 1966), [...]
19 February, 2018
David Jones – The Green Revolution in Latin America: Success or Failure?
David M. Jones, “The Green Revolution in Latin American: Success or Failure?,” Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers Publication Series 6 [...]
19 February, 2018
Diffusion of the Mexican Wheat Revolution
19 February, 2018
Donald Freebairn – The Dichotomy of Prosperity and Poverty in Mexican Agriculture
Donald K. Freebairn, “The Dichotomy of Prosperity and Poverty in Mexican Agriculture,” Land Economics 45, no. 1 (Feb. 1969), 31-42. Notes 31-2 [...]
18 February, 2018
Private Sector Land Holdings and Their Crop Values in Mexico
18 February, 2018
L. M. Roberts – The Rockefeller Foundation Program in the Agricultural Sciences
L. M. Roberts, “The Rockefeller Foundation Program in the Agricultural Sciences,” Economic Botany 15, no. 4 (Fall 1961), 296-301. Notes 299-300 [...]
18 February, 2018
A. T. Mosher – A Review and Criticism of United States Participation in Agricultural Programs of Technical Cooperation
A. T. Mosher, “A Review and Criticism of United States Participation in Agricultural Programs of Technical Cooperation, Journal of Farm Economics 38, [...]
18 February, 2018
Translation – Fernando Paz Sanchez – Mexico: Agricultura y Subdesarrollo
Fernando Paz Sanchez, “Mexico: Agricultura y Subdesarrollo,” Problemas del Desarrollo 1, no. 2 (Jan. – Mar. 1970), 17-42. Notes 17 [...]
12 February, 2018
David Clawson and Don Hoy – Nealtican, Mexico: A Peasant Community That Rejected the ‘Green Revolution’
David Clawson and Don Hoy, “Nealtican, Mexico: A Peasant Community That Rejected the ‘Green Revolution’,” The American Journal of [...]
11 February, 2018
As long as the story of science, technology, and medicine is told with the language of colonialism, it should be written using the methodologies of colonial, anti-colonial, and post-colonial history; as long as the story of science, technology, and medicine is told with the language of management, bureaucracy, and control, it should be written using […]
10 February, 2018
From Jonathan Murdoch – Post-Structuralist Geography: A Guide to Relational Space
“Limits to representation derive ultimately from ‘our’ embodiment in space (and time). Following recognition of embodiment, and the [...]
8 February, 2018
Tariq Banuri – Development and the Politics of Knowledge
Tariq Banuri, “Development and the Politics of Knowledge,” in Dominating Knowledge: Development, Culture, and Resistance, eds. Frederique [...]
4 February, 2018
The Green Revolution was first brought to Mexico and only later to India. Why is there such an imbalance in the number of scholarly treatments of the ecological, economic, and cultural ramifications of the Green Revolution in favor of India? This paper seeks to provide some small amount of ballast, and gratefully acknowledges and utilizes […]
4 February, 2018
Stephen A. Marglin – Towards the Decolonization of the Mind
Stephen A. Marglin, “Towards the Decolonization of the Mind”, in Dominating Knowledge: Development, Culture, and Resistance, eds. Frederique [...]
4 February, 2018
Can this taxonomic scheme (techne, episteme, and technai) apply to the interactions between Western-mode agronomists and Oaxaca’s indigenous population? What does it mean that Marglin’s essay employs the attitude and technique of episteme in order to make these claims? “But what is culture? We are all accustomed to thinking of culture as a set of rules, largely tacit […]
4 February, 2018
“Another reason why choice sets contract is that many activities are indivisible and require a minimum scale to be feasible. The substitution of mass-produced articles for local craft products is conventionally seen as an enlargement of choice. And for many consumers this is exactly right: plastic buckets win out over clay pots in the market […]
3 February, 2018
From Stephen Marglin’s “Towards the Decolonization of the Mind”: What is the nature of choice for the indigenes of Oaxaca in the implementation of agricultural modernization? Are they left with the choice of retaining traditional agricultural techniques and philosophies? What choices did they make? What do their ‘revealed preferences’ (see Marglin) indicate about both agricultural […]
3 February, 2018
“However, under both criteria well-being may be said to improve if people opt for the new alternative. Either way, a sufficient condition for welfare improvement is that people vote with their feet or their pocketbooks or their ballots for the modern over the traditional. Under the intrinsic criterion, the choice of new alternatives is evidence […]
3 February, 2018
Patricia Fara – Pandora’s Breeches: Women, Science and Power in the Englightenment
Patricia Fara, Pandora’s Breeches: Women, Science and Power in the Englightenment (London: Pimlico, 2004). Notes 16 – “Because experimental [...]
3 February, 2018
“English Baconianism suited men who aimed to govern. ‘For knowledge itself is power,’ Bacon had declared, a memorable slogan that was often repeated during the following centuries. For the scientific programme that he launched, knowledge meant not only power over nature, but also power over people — including aristocrats exploiting their workers, England ruling her […]
1 February, 2018
Andrew Mathews – Unlikely Alliances: Encounters between State Science, Nature Spirits, and Indigenous Industrial Forestry in Mexico, 1926-2008
Andrew S. Mathews, “Unlikely Alliances: Encounters between State Science, Nature Spirits, and Indigenous Industrial Forestry in Mexico, [...]
31 January, 2018
Kim Todd – Chrysalis: Maria Sibylla Merian and the Secrets of Metamorphosis
Kim Todd, Chrysalis: Maria Sibylla Merian and the Secrets of Metamorphosis (Orlando: Harcourt, 2007). Notes 2 – “Conches, plump beetles, limp birds [...]
28 January, 2018
Perig Pitrou – Life As a Process of Making in the Mixe Highlands (Oaxaca, Mexico): Towards a “General Pragmatics” of Life
Perig Pitrou, “Life As a Process of Making in the Mixe Highlands (Oaxaca, Mexico): Towards a “General Pragmatics” of Life,” Journal [...]
25 January, 2018
Vandana Shiva – Monocultures of the Mind – in The Vandana Shiva Reader
Shiva, Vandana, “Monocultures of the Mind,” in The Vandana Shiva Reader (Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 2015), 71-112. Notes 71 – SECTION: [...]
10 January, 2018
Vandana Shiva – Science and Politics in the Green Revolution
Shiva, Vandana, “Science and Politics in the Green Revolution,” in The Vandana Shiva Reader (Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 2015), 15-39. Notes 16 [...]
8 January, 2018
“As Anderson and Morrison have observed: ‘Running through all these measures, whether major or minor in their effect, was the concern to stabilize the countryside politically. It was recognised internationally that the peasantry were incipient revolutionaries and if squeezed too hard could be rallied against the new bourgeois-dominated governments in Asia. This recognition led many […]
8 January, 2018
“The knowledge and power nexus is inherent to the reductionist system because the mechanistic order, as a conceptual framework, was associated with a set of values based on power that was compatible with the needs of commercial capitalism. It generates inequalities and domination by the way knowledge is generated and structured, the way it is […]
7 January, 2018
Geology Participatory Museum Exhibits
Response Geologic “Antiquities” Participatory Exhibit I have to assume there are many lazy persons who, like myself, often pass under a tree and wonder [...]
4 December, 2017
Nick Wilding – Reviews of Galileo’s O (3 Volumes)
Response For this week, in addition to the “Making of a (Forged) Book” video, the Anatomy of a Book exercise, and the introduction to A Galileo Forgery: [...]
1 December, 2017
