The Co-Production of Technoscience and Social Science in Green Revolution Mexico, 1956-1979

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dc.contributor.advisorPandora, Katherine
dc.contributor.authorVieth, Paul
dc.contributor.committeeMemberRios, Gabriela
dc.contributor.committeeMemberSoppelsa, Peter
dc.date.accessioned2018-08-16T21:46:56Z
dc.date.available2018-08-16T21:46:56Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.date.manuscript2018-07-12
dc.description.abstractIn 1943 the Rockefeller Foundation, nominally in partnership with the Mexican government, initiated its Mexican Agriculture Program (MAP). Over the subsequent decades, a complex network of worldwide inter-governmental/NGO relationships was formalized along the model developed in Mexico. The dissemination of this research-educational model of agronomic “rationalization” to much of the Global South became retroactively known as the “Green Revolution.” This paper argues that this imposition of “rational” agronomy and agricultural economics through mechanization, monoculture, and synthetic inputs is constitutive of “epistemic colonialism.” Despite the attention paid to the Green Revolution as an agronomic undertaking, using economics and anthropology case studies (1965-1979), this thesis argues that the Green Revolution was a both a technoscientific intervention and a social scientific intervention in indigenous Mexican agricultural knowledge making that combined to form a development regime. This co-produced development regime was embedded in a hierarchical set of nested co-productive relationships with Mexico’s desire to modernize through urbanization and national identity formation and with the United States’ Cold War geo-political strategy of pseudo-territorialization for the creation of a liberal-democratic capitalist bastion against Soviet expansion.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11244/301423
dc.languageen_USen_US
dc.subjectMexicoen_US
dc.subjectAgricultureen_US
dc.subjectCold Waren_US
dc.subjectSocial Science -- Historyen_US
dc.subjectGreen Revolutionen_US
dc.thesis.degreeMaster of Arts in History of Science, Technology and Medicineen_US
dc.titleThe Co-Production of Technoscience and Social Science in Green Revolution Mexico, 1956-1979en_US
ou.groupCollege of Arts and Sciences::Department of History of Scienceen_US

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