The Greenhouse is a meeting place for students and researchers interested in the history and sociology of plants, food, agriculture and environment to explore how science and technology shape what we grow and eat.
The regular programme of papers and discussions is curated in conjunction with the project From Collection to Cultivation, which is funded by the Wellcome Trust.
The reading group is open to all. We meet fortnightly on Tuesdays, 12noon–1pm to discuss papers or presentations. We're currently meeting via Zoom, with access information circulated prior to the sessions via our reading group mailing list. Write to us at hps-cultivation@lists.cam.ac.uk to subscribe.
Organised by Helen Anne Curry and Jessica J. Lee.
Michalemas Term 2021
Theme: Green Revolution
19 October: New Perspectives on the Green Revolution
- Lídia Cabral, Poonam Pandery, and Xiaolu Xu. 'Epic narratives of the Green Revolution in Brazil, China, and India.' Agricultural and Human Values (2021).
- Prakash Kumar, Timothy Lorek, Tore C. Olsson, Nicole Sackley, Sigrid Schmalzer, and Gabriela Soto Laveaga. 'Roundtable: New Narratives of the Green Revolution.' Agricultural History 91, no. 3 (2017): 397–422.
Optional additional reading:
- Jonathan Harwood. 'Another Green Revolution? On the Perils of "Extracting Lessons" from History,' Development 61 (2018): 43–53.
2 November: Gender, Race, and the Green Revolution
- Aaron Eddens. 'White Science and Indigenous Maize: The Racial Logics of the Green Revolution.' The Journal of Peasant Studies 46, no. 3 (2019): 653–673.
- Timothy W Lorek. 'The Puerto Rican Connection: Recovering the "Cultural Triangle" in Global Histories of Agricultural Development.' Agricultural History 94, no. 1 (2020): 108–40.
- Moses Mosonsieyiri Kansanga, Roger Antabe, Yujiro Sano, Sarah Mason-Renton, and Isaac Luginaah. 'A Feminist Political Ecology of Agricultural Mechanization and Evolving Gendered On-farm Labor Dyanmics in Northern Ghana.' Gender, Technology and Development 23, no. 3 (2019): 207–233.
16 November: Crop Legacies of the Green Revolution
- Ann Raeboline Lincy Eliazer Nelson, Kavitha Ravichandran, and Usha Antony. 'The Impact of the Green Revolution on Indigenous Crops in India.' Journal of Ethnic Foods 6 (2019).
- Claiton Marcio da Silva and Claudio de Majo. 'Towards the Soyacene: Narratives for an Environmental History of Soy in Latin America's Southern Cone.' Historia Ambiental, Latinoamericana y Caribeña 11 no. 1 (2021): 329–356.
30 November: Speaker: Sigrid Schmalzer
For this session we'll be hearing from speaker Professor Sigrid Schmalzer, University of Massachusetts Amherst. Sigrid's talk title is TBD, with a text circulated closer to the time.