Please join us for an upcoming STEPS lunchtime seminar on ‘The Making and Unmaking of Agricultural Knowledge’, given by Professor Glenn Davis Stone, Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL), on Thursday, 10th December 2015, from 12.30-2pm, at the IDS Convening Space.

In this talk, Glenn Stone will draw on long-term research on various technological regimes in agriculture to advance our theory of agricultural decision-making and to stake out a set of key issues for upcoming research. In particular I focus on how different introduced technologies change farmer attitudes, decision-making, and understandings of agricultural phenomena. The talk will draw on Glenn’s long career of research in Nigeria and India as well as ongoing research in Philippines, looking at the technological regimes surrounding transgenic cotton and various types of rice – hybrid, heirloom, and transgenic Golden Rice.

All welcome! 

Glenn Stone is Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology and Environmental Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. He is known for his ethnographic work in Nigeria and India on small-scale farming and agricultural technology, and particularly in recent years for his longitudinal studies on the impacts on farmers’ systems of seeds, knowledge and learning (skilling) of transgenic Bt cotton in Andhra Pradesh (Telangana), India.
You can find more information about Glenn here:
https://anthropology.artsci.wustl.edu/stone_glenn
http://pages.wustl.edu/stone
http://fieldquestions.com/ – this is Glenn’s entertaining and informative blog offering ‘the rest of the story on food, farming and biotechnology’

Glenn is visiting Sussex on 10 & 11 December as a Visiting Fellow of the STEPS Centre, hosted by Dr. Dominic Glover ([email protected]). If you wish to meet Glenn during his visit please contact Dominic to request an appointment.