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, Jessica J. Lee and Ryan Nehring.
Lent Term 2022
Theme: Traditional Knowledges
1 February: Land, Crops and Sovereignty
- Emily Mourad Hanna, Katrine Gro Friborg, and Mazin B. Qumsiyeh. 'Temporal change in traditional knowledge and use of wild plants in Artas, Palestine.' Palestine Exploration Quarterly (2021).
- Anna Pigott. 'Hocus pocus? Spirituality and soil care in biodynamic agriculture.' Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space (November 2020).
- Valentina Fonseca-Cepeda, C. Julián Idrobo, and Sebastián Restrepo. 'The changing chagras: traditional ecological knowledge transformations in the Colombian Amazon.' Ecology and Society 24, no. 1 (2019).
15 February: Decolonising Knowledge
- Sarah A. Radcliffe and Isabella M. Radhuber. 'The Political Geographies of D/decolonization: Variegation and decolonial challenges of/in Geography.' Political Geography 78 (2020).
- T. Santiago-Vera, P.M. Rosset, A. Saldivar, B.G. Ferguson & V.E. Méndez. 'Re-conceptualizing and decolonizing resilience from a peasant perspective.' Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems 45 no. 10 (2021): 1422–1440.
1 March: Translation
- Liv Østmo and John Law. 'Mis/translation, Colonialism, and Environmental Conflict.' Environmental Humanities 10, no. 2 (2018): 349–369.
- Jairo Robles-Piñeros, David Ludwig, Geilsa Costa Santos Baptista, and Adela Molina-Andrade. 'Intercultural science education as a trading zone between traditional and academic knowledge.' Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 84 (2020).
15 March: Speaker Professor Andrew Curley, University of Arizona
Please note a change in timing to this session: time TBD
Professor Andrew Curley from the University of Arizona School of Geography, Development & Environment will speak to us about Native infrastructures and colonialism. The title of his talk and circulated reading are will be available shortly.