Abstract
Abstract This chapter explores the role of knowledge circuits as a category of analysis in the techno-scientific developments of tropical products within the history of science and environmental and commodity histories. It uses the terms ‘domestic knowledge circuits’ and ‘tropical scientific knowledge’ to understand the intimate connection between the advances of science and the clearly practical and productivist objectives of knowledge applied to basic goods. This suggests complex and changing dynamics within the chain and life cycle of goods and illustrates areas of encounter, negotiation, and hybridity in the production and circulation of knowledge. This is exemplified with a case study of the control and eradication of the sugar cane mosaic virus in Cuba and Puerto Rico, highlighting the necessary interconnections between local and global strategies for the generation of new scientific knowledge. The chapter concludes with suggestions as to how such analytical frameworks may further research into the knowledge circuits of commodities.
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