Abstract
Review: Cultivating Science, Harvesting Power: Science and Industrial Agriculture in California
Highlights
This volume offers a critical addition to the archive of scholarly work on the science and politics of agriculture and the contentious state of the science-agriculture interface in California’s Salinas Valley
Amid a string of chapters Christopher Henke executes his mission of exposing “the interface of commodities, knowledge, and power” (p.19) within California’s agricultural sector, a sector that has been informed by a long history of state-sponsored farm advising, the development of land-grant universities and cooperative extension services, and other offshoots of Progressive Era politics
This focus on practice separates him from risk society scholars like Ulrich Beck who are critical of ecological modernization theory—the preferred framework guiding Henke’s focus on “the ecological relationships between place, practice, institutions, and power” (p.180)
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Title Review: Cultivating Science, Harvesting Power: Science and Industrial Agriculture in California Review: Cultivating Science, Harvesting Power: Science and Industrial Agriculture in California By Christopher R.
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