Landscapes and Interdisciplinarity (Beth Cole)
09/23/22 • 50 min
A question of how to advance upon the ecosystem services concept leads to lessons learned about how to work collaboratively across disciplines.
Episode Links
- Lesson’s Learned Writing (a blog by Beth Cole
- Is interdisciplinarity a mashup?
- Beth Cole social media
- The Landscapes Decisions Program
Music: Kilkerrin by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue), Creative Commons license Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)
A question of how to advance upon the ecosystem services concept leads to lessons learned about how to work collaboratively across disciplines.
Episode Links
- Lesson’s Learned Writing (a blog by Beth Cole
- Is interdisciplinarity a mashup?
- Beth Cole social media
- The Landscapes Decisions Program
Music: Kilkerrin by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue), Creative Commons license Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)
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An article in Scientific American bringing a science and technology studies lens to Genetically Modified Organisms, provoked louder than normal responses from the pro biotech crowd. What can we learn from the exchange? Dr Andrew Flachs, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Purdue University, studied the role of seeds on farmer livelihoods in rural India as part of his book, Cultivating Knowledge. We discuss the arguments of the article and its malcontents to try and reach a broader understanding of what this debate is really about.
Episode Links
- Andrew Flachs personal website. On Twitter
- Cultivating Knowledge: Biotechnology, Sustainability, and the Human Cost of Cotton Capitalism in India, By Andrew Flachs.
- How Biotech Crops Can Crash and Still Never Fail, by Aniket Aga and Maywa Montenegro de Wit, Scientific American.
- Is Biotechnology Just New Colonialism? Talking Biotech Podcast, Dr. Kevin Folta.
- 'Woke' Scientific American Goes Anti-GMO, American Council on Science and Health, Cameron English.
- Whose Science? Whose Knowledge? Sandra Harding.
- A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things, Jason Moore and Raj Patel.
- Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital, Jason Moore
- Works of Sidney Mintz.
- R. Vasavi’s work on the Green Revolution: Harbingers of Rain: Land and life in South Asia. Shadow Space: Suicides and the Predicament of Rural India.
- Paul Robbins’ contributions to the Intended Consequences
- Rock, J. (2019). “We are not starving:” challenging genetically modified seeds and development in Ghana. Culture, Agriculture, Food and Environment, 41(1), 15-23.
- Dowd-Uribe, B. (2014). Engineering yields and inequality? How institutions and agro-ecology shape Bt cotton outcomes in Burkina Faso. Geoforum, 53, 161-171.
- Andrew Flachs and Paul Richards on the role of performance on agricultural systems.
- Indian millet hunger reduction program.
- Learning to Love G.M.O.s, by Jennifer Kahn, The New York Times
- Montenegro de Wit, M., Kapuscinski, A. R., & Fitting, E. (2020). Democratizing CRISPR? Stories, practices, and politics of science and governance on the agricultural gene editing frontier. Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, 8.
- Genetically Modified Democracy, by Aniket Aga.
- Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resilience and the Black Freedom Movement
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Nature's Vote
Episode Description
Rescinding the practice of human-exceptionalism may be required to treat animals and other non-human species with more grace. But it might also be required to re-orient how we understand how the non-human world operates and thus the decisions we make that may disrupt the order of the multi-species communities we are all part of. Dr. Emma Gardner proposes an "ecological permission structure", or a parallel planning process that takes into account the needs and desires of multi-species communities.
Episode Notes
Raymond Williams, Problems in Materialism and Culture: Selected Essays
Safina, C. (2015). Beyond words: What animals think and feel.
Andrew Balmford's summary of land sparing
Gardner, E., Sheppard, A., & Bullock, J. (2022). Why biodiversity net gain requires an ecological permission system. Town and Country Planning Association Journal, 391-402.
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Landscapes is produced by Adam Calo. A complete written transcript of the episode can be found on Adam’s newsletter: Land Food Nexus. Send feedback or questions to [email protected]. Music by Blue Dot Sessions: “Kilkerrin” by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue).
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