Harro Maat
Biographic Data
| ID | 125250 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Harro Maat |
| GIVEN NAMES | Harro |
| FAMILY NAME | Maat |
| SIGNATURE | MAAT H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wageningen University & Research |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7338-7910 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 78 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Moving Crops and the Scales of History by Francesca Bray et al (review)
Maroon Women in Suriname and French Guiana: Rice, Slavery, Memory
Given the few written documents left behind by those who escaped slavery, the analysis of African agency in the transfer of crops and knowledge in the successful establishment of Maroon communities benefits from other disciplines, such as oral history, ethnobotany and linguistics. In this article, we report the way stories of enslaved women, who escaped in the early periods of slave rebellion in Suriname, live on in the names of specific rice var…
Vernacular Names of Traditional Rice Varieties Reveal the Unique History of Maroons in Suriname and French Guiana
Rice is a keystone crop in all Maroon communities in Suriname and French Guyana today and they cultivate hundreds of traditional varieties. Historically, rice can be considered an indicator crop for successful marronnage in the Guianas. Unraveling local variety names can reveal the history, farming systems, spiritual significance and probably the diversity of rice in Maroon communities. We interviewed 67 rice farmers (96% female), collected over …
The Dutch see Red: (In)formal science advisory bodies during the Covid-19 pandemic
We analyse the roles, dynamics and logic of science advice in structuring the Dutch response to the COVID-19 pandemic, from January 2020 to December 2020. We address how the Dutch government responded by paying attention to styles of governance and expert advice. We argue that the Dutch response was shaped by the interplay of corporatist, deliberative and neoliberal forms of governance, in particular, how early corporatist tendencies seemed to cr…
It's not the market, stupid: On the importance of non-market economies in sustainability transitions
It has been widely assumed that market mechanisms are central in incentivizing the development of sustainable innovations and that market formation is critical for the diffusion of innovations. We challenge the centrality of markets in understanding and promoting the development and diffusion of sustainable innovations using the case of the System of Rice Intensification. This innovation for sustainable rice cultivation was developed and diffused…
The legacy of traditional rice cultivation by descendants of Indian contract laborers in Suriname
BackgroundSome 35,000 indentured laborers from India were recruited to work on plantations in Suriname between 1868 and 1916. It is likely that most were familiar with farming before they were shipped to this former Dutch colony in the Caribbean. Around 1900, those who did not return received a piece of land where most of them started growing rice as a staple crop. Agronomists characterized their traditional landraces as inferior and infested wit…
Poverty-related diseases: Factors that predict coping in two Cameroonian settings
In this paper, we explore the connection between poverty and health (poverty-related diseases: PRDs) by investigating the factors that play a role in how two groups of people in Cameroon cope with health challenges: workers in a large agro-industrial organization (living in 'camps') and students in two major universities (living on 'campuses'). We investigated factors reported in the literature as being associated with coping, summarized under th…
The history of the rice gene pool in Suriname: Circulations of rice and people from the eighteenth century until late twentieth century
Alongside the trans-Atlantic slave trade, plant species travelled from Africa to the Americas and back. This article examines the emerging rice gene pool in Suriname due to the global circulation of people, plants and goods. We distinguish three phases of circulation, marked by two major transitions. Rice was brought to the Americas by European colonizers, mostly as food on board of slave ships. In Suriname rice started off as a crop grown only b…
Group compositions: The Politics of Technology Implemented in Smallholder Farming
This article investigates the connection between performance, group, and society. The argument is that group formation around particular farm operations and the details of the activities they engage in are an expression of the preferred way of technology implementation. The argument is developed using Paul Richards' notion of agriculture as performance. Two cases are presented. The first is the composition of a spraying team for weed control in s…
The Introduction of SRI in Uttarakhand, India: Technopolitical Mythologies and Sociotechnical Flexibility
Cet article discute les représentations du système de riziculture intensive (SRI) – un ensemble de principes agronomiques promus comme méthode de riziculture durable – vis-à-vis de trois notions clés du développement agricole: rendements, durabilité et adoption par les agriculteurs. Nous soutenons que c’est par le biais d’affirmations exagérées (qu’elles soient positives ou négatives) sur le lien entre SRI et ces trois notions, que le SRI a acqui…
Vulnerability assessments as a political creation: Tsunami management in Portugal
Vulnerability assessments are a cornerstone of contemporary disaster research. This paper shows how research procedures and the presentation of results of vulnerability assessments are politically filtered. Using data from a study of tsunami risk assessment in Portugal, the paper demonstrates that approaches, measurement instruments, and research procedures for evaluating vulnerability are influenced by institutional preferences, lines of communi…
Research Design and the Politics of Abstraction: Unpacking the Environmentality of Scientific Practice in Socioecological Assessments
Local Subversions of Colonial Cultures: Commodities and Anti-Commodities in Global History
The book brings together original, state-of-the-art historical research from several continents and examines how mainly local peasant societies responded to colonial pressures to produce a range of di
Contested hydrosocial territories and disputed water governance: Struggles and competing claims over the Ilisu Dam development in southeastern Turkey
Development and Environmental Politics Unmasked: Authority, Participation and Equity in East Timor by Christopher Shephard
Reviewed by: Development and Environmental Politics Unmasked: Authority, Participation and Equity in East Timor by Christopher Shephard Harro Maat (bio) Development and Environmental Politics Unmasked: Authority, Participation and Equity in East Timor. By Christopher Shephard. New York: Routledge, 2014. Pp. 281. $160. Popular historical narratives in East Timor consider the country to have experienced 450 years of neglect, Chris Shephard writes i…
On heretics and God’s blanket salesmen: Contested claims for Conservation Agriculture and the politics of its promotion in African smallholder farming
Conservation agriculture (CA) has captured the imagination of an impressive array of organisations including the FAO, DFID, the EU, international research and development organisations (CIMMYT, CIRAD, ICRAF and ICRISAT) and numerous NGOs. Defined by FAO (2008a) as having three essential components – (1) zero or minimal soil disturbance, (2) a permanent soil cover provided by a growing crop or a mulch of organic residues, and (3) crop rotation – C…
Introduction: How Participation Relates to Science and Technology and How Science and Technology Shapes Participation
Science and technology need society. Research and technology have little chance of influencing development if they do not anticipate societal effects and responses. Universities, research centres and technology institutes invest in a good relationship with the public. Engaging citizens creates a wider acceptance of (potentially) controversial scientific and technological developments. Policymakers therefore create platforms and processes for publ…
Is Participation Rooted in Colonialism? Agricultural Innovation Systems and Participation in the Netherlands Indies
Participation is connected to technology through the notion of innovation systems. To make the connection work, it is argued, the focus has to shift from a framing of participation in terms of democratic entitlement to a framing in terms of the settlement of issues (i.e. politics from below), The innovation system is an appropriate notion to see where issues are likely to lock on to processes of technological change. Drawing on material from colo…
Contested hydrosocial territories and disputed water governance: Struggles and competing claims over the Ilisu Dam development in southeastern Turkey
It's not the market, stupid: On the importance of non-market economies in sustainability transitions
It has been widely assumed that market mechanisms are central in incentivizing the development of sustainable innovations and that market formation is critical for the diffusion of innovations. We challenge the centrality of markets in understanding and promoting the development and diffusion of sustainable innovations using the case of the System of Rice Intensification. This innovation for sustainable rice cultivation was developed and diffused…
Maroon Women in Suriname and French Guiana: Rice, Slavery, Memory
Given the few written documents left behind by those who escaped slavery, the analysis of African agency in the transfer of crops and knowledge in the successful establishment of Maroon communities benefits from other disciplines, such as oral history, ethnobotany and linguistics. In this article, we report the way stories of enslaved women, who escaped in the early periods of slave rebellion in Suriname, live on in the names of specific rice var…
Local Subversions of Colonial Cultures: Commodities and Anti-Commodities in Global History
The book brings together original, state-of-the-art historical research from several continents and examines how mainly local peasant societies responded to colonial pressures to produce a range of di
Vernacular Names of Traditional Rice Varieties Reveal the Unique History of Maroons in Suriname and French Guiana
Rice is a keystone crop in all Maroon communities in Suriname and French Guyana today and they cultivate hundreds of traditional varieties. Historically, rice can be considered an indicator crop for successful marronnage in the Guianas. Unraveling local variety names can reveal the history, farming systems, spiritual significance and probably the diversity of rice in Maroon communities. We interviewed 67 rice farmers (96% female), collected over …
The legacy of traditional rice cultivation by descendants of Indian contract laborers in Suriname
BackgroundSome 35,000 indentured laborers from India were recruited to work on plantations in Suriname between 1868 and 1916. It is likely that most were familiar with farming before they were shipped to this former Dutch colony in the Caribbean. Around 1900, those who did not return received a piece of land where most of them started growing rice as a staple crop. Agronomists characterized their traditional landraces as inferior and infested wit…
The history of the rice gene pool in Suriname: Circulations of rice and people from the eighteenth century until late twentieth century
Alongside the trans-Atlantic slave trade, plant species travelled from Africa to the Americas and back. This article examines the emerging rice gene pool in Suriname due to the global circulation of people, plants and goods. We distinguish three phases of circulation, marked by two major transitions. Rice was brought to the Americas by European colonizers, mostly as food on board of slave ships. In Suriname rice started off as a crop grown only b…
Vulnerability assessments as a political creation: Tsunami management in Portugal
Vulnerability assessments are a cornerstone of contemporary disaster research. This paper shows how research procedures and the presentation of results of vulnerability assessments are politically filtered. Using data from a study of tsunami risk assessment in Portugal, the paper demonstrates that approaches, measurement instruments, and research procedures for evaluating vulnerability are influenced by institutional preferences, lines of communi…
Introduction: How Participation Relates to Science and Technology and How Science and Technology Shapes Participation
Science and technology need society. Research and technology have little chance of influencing development if they do not anticipate societal effects and responses. Universities, research centres and technology institutes invest in a good relationship with the public. Engaging citizens creates a wider acceptance of (potentially) controversial scientific and technological developments. Policymakers therefore create platforms and processes for publ…
Is Participation Rooted in Colonialism? Agricultural Innovation Systems and Participation in the Netherlands Indies
Participation is connected to technology through the notion of innovation systems. To make the connection work, it is argued, the focus has to shift from a framing of participation in terms of democratic entitlement to a framing in terms of the settlement of issues (i.e. politics from below), The innovation system is an appropriate notion to see where issues are likely to lock on to processes of technological change. Drawing on material from colo…
On heretics and God’s blanket salesmen: Contested claims for Conservation Agriculture and the politics of its promotion in African smallholder farming
Conservation agriculture (CA) has captured the imagination of an impressive array of organisations including the FAO, DFID, the EU, international research and development organisations (CIMMYT, CIRAD, ICRAF and ICRISAT) and numerous NGOs. Defined by FAO (2008a) as having three essential components – (1) zero or minimal soil disturbance, (2) a permanent soil cover provided by a growing crop or a mulch of organic residues, and (3) crop rotation – C…
Research Design and the Politics of Abstraction: Unpacking the Environmentality of Scientific Practice in Socioecological Assessments
Local Subversions of Colonial Cultures: Commodities and Anti-Commodities in Global History
The book brings together original, state-of-the-art historical research from several continents and examines how mainly local peasant societies responded to colonial pressures to produce a range of di
Contested hydrosocial territories and disputed water governance: Struggles and competing claims over the Ilisu Dam development in southeastern Turkey
Development and Environmental Politics Unmasked: Authority, Participation and Equity in East Timor by Christopher Shephard
Reviewed by: Development and Environmental Politics Unmasked: Authority, Participation and Equity in East Timor by Christopher Shephard Harro Maat (bio) Development and Environmental Politics Unmasked: Authority, Participation and Equity in East Timor. By Christopher Shephard. New York: Routledge, 2014. Pp. 281. $160. Popular historical narratives in East Timor consider the country to have experienced 450 years of neglect, Chris Shephard writes i…
The Introduction of SRI in Uttarakhand, India: Technopolitical Mythologies and Sociotechnical Flexibility
Cet article discute les représentations du système de riziculture intensive (SRI) – un ensemble de principes agronomiques promus comme méthode de riziculture durable – vis-à-vis de trois notions clés du développement agricole: rendements, durabilité et adoption par les agriculteurs. Nous soutenons que c’est par le biais d’affirmations exagérées (qu’elles soient positives ou négatives) sur le lien entre SRI et ces trois notions, que le SRI a acqui…
Vulnerability assessments as a political creation: Tsunami management in Portugal
Vulnerability assessments are a cornerstone of contemporary disaster research. This paper shows how research procedures and the presentation of results of vulnerability assessments are politically filtered. Using data from a study of tsunami risk assessment in Portugal, the paper demonstrates that approaches, measurement instruments, and research procedures for evaluating vulnerability are influenced by institutional preferences, lines of communi…
The history of the rice gene pool in Suriname: Circulations of rice and people from the eighteenth century until late twentieth century
Alongside the trans-Atlantic slave trade, plant species travelled from Africa to the Americas and back. This article examines the emerging rice gene pool in Suriname due to the global circulation of people, plants and goods. We distinguish three phases of circulation, marked by two major transitions. Rice was brought to the Americas by European colonizers, mostly as food on board of slave ships. In Suriname rice started off as a crop grown only b…
Group compositions: The Politics of Technology Implemented in Smallholder Farming
This article investigates the connection between performance, group, and society. The argument is that group formation around particular farm operations and the details of the activities they engage in are an expression of the preferred way of technology implementation. The argument is developed using Paul Richards' notion of agriculture as performance. Two cases are presented. The first is the composition of a spraying team for weed control in s…
Poverty-related diseases: Factors that predict coping in two Cameroonian settings
In this paper, we explore the connection between poverty and health (poverty-related diseases: PRDs) by investigating the factors that play a role in how two groups of people in Cameroon cope with health challenges: workers in a large agro-industrial organization (living in 'camps') and students in two major universities (living on 'campuses'). We investigated factors reported in the literature as being associated with coping, summarized under th…
The legacy of traditional rice cultivation by descendants of Indian contract laborers in Suriname
BackgroundSome 35,000 indentured laborers from India were recruited to work on plantations in Suriname between 1868 and 1916. It is likely that most were familiar with farming before they were shipped to this former Dutch colony in the Caribbean. Around 1900, those who did not return received a piece of land where most of them started growing rice as a staple crop. Agronomists characterized their traditional landraces as inferior and infested wit…
The Dutch see Red: (In)formal science advisory bodies during the Covid-19 pandemic
We analyse the roles, dynamics and logic of science advice in structuring the Dutch response to the COVID-19 pandemic, from January 2020 to December 2020. We address how the Dutch government responded by paying attention to styles of governance and expert advice. We argue that the Dutch response was shaped by the interplay of corporatist, deliberative and neoliberal forms of governance, in particular, how early corporatist tendencies seemed to cr…
It's not the market, stupid: On the importance of non-market economies in sustainability transitions
It has been widely assumed that market mechanisms are central in incentivizing the development of sustainable innovations and that market formation is critical for the diffusion of innovations. We challenge the centrality of markets in understanding and promoting the development and diffusion of sustainable innovations using the case of the System of Rice Intensification. This innovation for sustainable rice cultivation was developed and diffused…
Maroon Women in Suriname and French Guiana: Rice, Slavery, Memory
Given the few written documents left behind by those who escaped slavery, the analysis of African agency in the transfer of crops and knowledge in the successful establishment of Maroon communities benefits from other disciplines, such as oral history, ethnobotany and linguistics. In this article, we report the way stories of enslaved women, who escaped in the early periods of slave rebellion in Suriname, live on in the names of specific rice var…
Vernacular Names of Traditional Rice Varieties Reveal the Unique History of Maroons in Suriname and French Guiana
Rice is a keystone crop in all Maroon communities in Suriname and French Guyana today and they cultivate hundreds of traditional varieties. Historically, rice can be considered an indicator crop for successful marronnage in the Guianas. Unraveling local variety names can reveal the history, farming systems, spiritual significance and probably the diversity of rice in Maroon communities. We interviewed 67 rice farmers (96% female), collected over …
Moving Crops and the Scales of History by Francesca Bray et al (review)
Geography (11 works) · Political science (11 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Agriculture (5 works) · Colonialism (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Archaeology (4 works)