{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Contested GM Worldviews - (Andrew Flachs)","description":"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\u2019s 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\u2019 contributions to the  Intended Consequences Rock, J. (2019).  \u201cWe are not starving:\u201d challenging genetically modified seeds and development in Ghana.&amp;nbsp;Culture, Agriculture, Food and Environment,&amp;nbsp;41(1), 15-23. Dowd-Uribe, B. (2014).  Engineering yields and inequality? How institutions and agro-ecology shape Bt cotton outcomes in Burkina Faso.&amp;nbsp;Geoforum,&amp;nbsp;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., &amp;amp; Fitting, E. (2020).  Democratizing CRISPR? Stories, practices, and politics of science and governance on the agricultural gene editing frontier.&amp;nbsp;Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene,&amp;nbsp;8.  Genetically Modified Democracy, by Aniket Aga. Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resilience and the Black Freedom Movement  Researchers can restore the American chestnut through genetic engineering. But at what cost? The Counter  Landscapes is produced by&amp;nbsp;Adam Calo. A complete written transcript of the episode can be found on Adam\u2019s newsletter:&amp;nbsp;Land Food Nexus.&amp;nbsp; Send feedback or questions to&amp;nbsp;adamcalo@substack.com.&amp;nbsp;Music by Blue Dot Sessions: \u201cKilkerrin\u201d by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue). ","author_name":"Landscapes","author_url":"https:\/\/landscapes.libsyn.com\/site","html":"<iframe title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/22636037\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/88AA3C\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/content\/124461164"}