Lawrence Busch
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3685977 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Lawrence Busch |
| PRENOMES | Lawrence |
| SOBRENOME | Busch |
| ASSINATURA | BUSCH L |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Michigan State University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 63 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 821 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 64 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1975 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 13 |
Towards a New Political Economy of Agriculture
Knowledge for Sale
Knowledge for Sale
Looking in the Wrong (La)place? The Promise and Perils of Becoming Big Data
Laplace once argued that if one could "comprehend all the forces by which nature is animated," it would be possible to predict the future and explain the past. The advent of analysis of large-scale data sets has been accompanied by newfound concerns about "Laplace's Demon" as it relates to certain fields of science as well as management, evaluation, and audit. I begin by asking how statistical data are constructed, illustrating the hermeneutic ac…
Agricultural Sciences and Technology
Le marché aux connaissances
Cet ouvrage tente de tracer les liens entre le néolibéralisme et la restructuration des universités et des instituts de recherche. Après avoir observé les nombreuses crises que l'enseignement supérieur et la recherche se doivent d’affronter, l’auteur montre la façon dont la version néolibérale des sciences économiques a été mise en œuvre pour modifier les moyens d'entreprendre et d’évaluer la recherche, l'enseignement et l'engagement publics. Il …
Individual choice and social values
In his celebrated 1951 work, Social Choice and Individual Values, economist Kenneth Arrow asked how the values of individuals might be aggregated into a social choice. Today, we live in a world in which choice is celebrated as a virtually undiluted good. Indeed, in the agrifood sector in much of the world, there is considerable evidence that the range of choices has increased markedly in the last 30 years. In much of the world today, we can choos…
Governance in the age of global markets
Bioenergy Futures
Sociotechnical imaginaries are collectively imagined forms of social life reflected in the design and fulfillment of technological projects. While it is implied that there may be contention around sociotechnical imaginaries, the literature on how that contention is manifested is scant. We use a frame‐analytic approach to demonstrate the potency of collective action frames for making sense of the national imaginaries underpinning siting proposals.…
Classifying, Constructing, and Identifying Life
Recent accounts of "the biological" emphasize its thoroughgoing transformation. Accounts of biomedicalization, biotechnology, biopower, biocapital, and bioeconomy tend to agree that twentieth- and twenty-first-century life sciences transform the object of biology, the biological. Amidst so much transformation, we explore attempts to stabilize the biological through standards. We ask: how do standards handle the biological in transformation? Based…
On the Peculiarity of Standards
Justifying the Art Critique
Art critics straddle the boundaries between art worlds and the public. To legitimate and maintain this role, critics must be able to justify their standing as judges of the creation and display of art. This article draws on Boltanski's and Thévenot's work on the sorts of justifications which arise when joint action is interrupted. Specifically, we look at the justifications embedded in two seemingly disparate critiques - one from Clement Greenber…
Standards
An investigation into standards, the invisible infrastructures of our technical, moral, social, and physical worlds. Standards are the means by which we construct realities. There are established standards for professional accreditation, the environment, consumer products, animal welfare, the acceptable stress for highway bridges, healthcare, education—for almost everything. We are surrounded by a vast array of standards, many of which we take fo…
Introduction to symposium on private agrifood governance
Fighting for the Future of Food
Standards, techno-economic networks, and playing fields
This paper explores the construction of what the authors term a ‘tripartite standards regime’ (TSR) by looking at the pragmatic emergence of standards development organizations (SDOs) and national accreditation bodies (NABs). The authors explain how, through their network of audit, the TSR is entangling intermediaries and processes into specific supply chains. Moreover, they argue that the emphasis placed on the role of ‘metrology’ is overstated …
Food Fights
Can Fairy Tales Come True? The Surprising Story of Neoliberalism and World Agriculture
The last half century has witnessed dramatic socio-technical changes in the agrifood sector, restructuring both city and countryside in radical ways. On the one hand, new genetic, genomic, transport and information technologies have become commonplace. On the other hand, new forms of intellectual property and new institutional structures have emerged. In particular, supply chain management and certification of suppliers have become commonplace ac…
Homenaje a Susan Leigh Star
et de quelque manire que ce soit, est interdite sauf accord pralable et crit de l'diteur, en dehors des cas prvus par la lgislation en vigueur en France. Il est prcis que son stockage dans une base de donnes est galement interdit
Hommage to Susan Leigh Star
Leigh and I met in Paris in 1988 and since that time we intertwined our careers, love, friendship and of course cats. I address here my own appreciation of three dimensions of her legacy: residual categories, methods and poetry. I will leave to her the last words on boundary objects for the new paper in this journal (the last she completed). Leigh was deeply aware of the suffering caused by information systems of all kinds as they conjure real pe…
Hommage à Susan Leigh Star
J’ai rencontré Leigh à Paris en 1988 et depuis nous n’avons cessé d’entremêler nos carrières, notre amour, notre amitié et, bien sûr, nos chats. Je voudrais ici fournir mon sentiment sur trois dimensions parmi tout ce qu’elle nous laisse en héritage : son intérêt pour les catégories résiduelles, ses méthodes et sa poésie. Je lui laisserai le dernier mot sur les objets‐frontière qui font l’objet de son article dans cette Revue (le dernier article …
What Kind of Agriculture? What Might Science Deliver
Until recently, nearly all agricultural research was unified by a focus on increased production. Arguably, production subsidies in Europe and the US made that approach viable. But today, paradoxically, we are faced with both growing fragmentation and integration in agricultural research. Agricultural research is now seen as the solution to problems of global warming, rural development, environmental improvement, economic growth, sustainability, a…
The private governance of food
Nanotechnologies, food, and agriculture
Third-Party Certification in the Global Agrifood System
Third-party certification (TPC) is becoming an integral component of the global agrifood system. However, little is known about its functions, structures and practices. In this article we examine the emergence of TPC as a governance mechanism, its organisational structure, and its practices. Distinguishing between two forms of 'independence'- organisational and operational - we argue that TPC exhibits organisational, but not operational independe…
New! Improved? The Transformation of the Global Agrifood System
The last decade has witnessed a dramatic rise in global trade in food and agricultural products. While much analysis has focused on the role of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in this process, we argue that other forms of regulation are of far greater consequence. In this paper, we examine changes in the agrifood systemmade possibleby the WTO and we assess the rise of global private standards. We argue that the new global rules, regulations, a…
The moral economy of grades and standards
Bioenergy Futures
Sociotechnical imaginaries are collectively imagined forms of social life reflected in the design and fulfillment of technological projects. While it is implied that there may be contention around sociotechnical imaginaries, the literature on how that contention is manifested is scant. We use a frame‐analytic approach to demonstrate the potency of collective action frames for making sense of the national imaginaries underpinning siting proposals.…
Beyond political economy
This article provides a critical assessment of the traditional political economy approaches in analysis of agricultural globalization. The use of the actor network perspective is suggested to enhance our understanding of the globalization process. To illustrate the applicability of actor network theory to political economy studies, the globalization of the Canadian rapeseed (Brassica rapa and B. napus) industry is analyzed. It is shown that the g…
"What We Now Know About "I Don't Knows
Journal Article WHAT WE NOW KNOW ABOUT "I DON'T KNOWS" Get access JOE D. FRANCIS, JOE D. FRANCIS Joe D. Francis is Assistant Professor of Rural Sociology at Cornell University and Lawrence Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar LAWRENCE BUSCH LAWRENCE BUSCH Busch is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Kentucky Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinio…
Standards, techno-economic networks, and playing fields
This paper explores the construction of what the authors term a ‘tripartite standards regime’ (TSR) by looking at the pragmatic emergence of standards development organizations (SDOs) and national accreditation bodies (NABs). The authors explain how, through their network of audit, the TSR is entangling intermediaries and processes into specific supply chains. Moreover, they argue that the emphasis placed on the role of ‘metrology’ is overstated …
Performing the economy, performing science
Callon and Hilgartner, respectively, have argued that the economy and technoscience are performed and that neoclassical economics (NE) and scientific reports should be interpreted as performances. Building on that theme, it is argued here that the ongoing transformations collectively known as globalization signal a new way of thinking about and performing both economics and technoscience: supply chain management (SCM). A comparison of SCM with NE…
Networks and Agricultural Development
Diffusion theory and political economy are the two most common ways by which rural sociologists have explained the widespread use of agricultural innovations. In this paper, we argue, borrowing from science studies and using the empirical case of soybeans in Brazil, that the use of agricultural innovations is better understood as the result of the construction of networks of people and things. Thirty years ago soybean production in Brazil was ins…
Can Fairy Tales Come True? The Surprising Story of Neoliberalism and World Agriculture
The last half century has witnessed dramatic socio-technical changes in the agrifood sector, restructuring both city and countryside in radical ways. On the one hand, new genetic, genomic, transport and information technologies have become commonplace. On the other hand, new forms of intellectual property and new institutional structures have emerged. In particular, supply chain management and certification of suppliers have become commonplace ac…
Third-Party Certification in the Global Agrifood System
Third-party certification (TPC) is becoming an integral component of the global agrifood system. However, little is known about its functions, structures and practices. In this article we examine the emergence of TPC as a governance mechanism, its organisational structure, and its practices. Distinguishing between two forms of 'independence'- organisational and operational - we argue that TPC exhibits organisational, but not operational independe…
Inquiry for the public good
The private governance of food
Seeds of Change
Seed saving is a historical cultural phenomenon that dates back to the beginning of agriculture itself. Seeds, because of their unique characteristics – the seed contains within itself the means for its own reproduction – have offered a particularly large stumbling block to capital accumulation. In the US, intellectual property rights legislation and Supreme Court decisions have played a profound role in overcoming these unique characteristics an…
Fighting for the Future of Food
Standardization as a Means for Globalizing a Commodity
Not all commodities are things, nor are all things available in society commodities. Then, what are commodities? Using the case of rapeseed and its products in China, this paper examines the role of grades and standards (G&S) in simultaneously determining the life of things as commodities and the position of humans as market participants. In the first section, we summarize our conceptual understandings of commodities. Next, the paper examines tes…
Rites of Passage
This article extends the concept of symmetry to ethics. Using the case of canola in Canada, the authors argue that grades and standards simultaneously subject humans and nonhumans to rites of passage that test their "goodness. " Then, they further develop a tentative typology of standards. The authors argue that these standards allow something resembling the neoclassical market to be established, create the conditions for economic analysis, and a…
Introduction to symposium on private agrifood governance
The Production of Knowledge and the Production of Commodities
A crucial issue in the theory of technological change-the transformation of knowledge into commodities in agriculture-is examined through the role that technoscience played in the transformation of rapeseed (Brassica campestris and B. napus) from a minor crop used largely for marine lubricants into a major global competitor in edible oil markets. The study is based on a content analysis of the worldwide bibliography of rapeseed. A network approac…
History, Negotiation, and Structure in Agricultural Research
Irony, tragedy, and temporality in agricultural systems, or, how values and systems are related
Looking in the Wrong (La)place? The Promise and Perils of Becoming Big Data
Laplace once argued that if one could "comprehend all the forces by which nature is animated," it would be possible to predict the future and explain the past. The advent of analysis of large-scale data sets has been accompanied by newfound concerns about "Laplace's Demon" as it relates to certain fields of science as well as management, evaluation, and audit. I begin by asking how statistical data are constructed, illustrating the hermeneutic ac…
Governance in the age of global markets
Beyond Politics
The problem of order is central to all societies. Bacon, Hobbes and Smith each proposed to resolve the problem of order by investing moral authority in a 'Leviathan' that would guarantee order: science, state and market, respectively. Later scholars adapted their works to other ends. But putting the Leviathans into practice had the unintended effect of relieving individuals of moral responsibility and creating wide-spread disorder. Widespread net…
Science, Technology, and the Restructuring of Agriculture
Classifying, Constructing, and Identifying Life
Recent accounts of "the biological" emphasize its thoroughgoing transformation. Accounts of biomedicalization, biotechnology, biopower, biocapital, and bioeconomy tend to agree that twentieth- and twenty-first-century life sciences transform the object of biology, the biological. Amidst so much transformation, we explore attempts to stabilize the biological through standards. We ask: how do standards handle the biological in transformation? Based…
"What We Now Know About "I Don't Knows
Journal Article WHAT WE NOW KNOW ABOUT "I DON'T KNOWS" Get access JOE D. FRANCIS, JOE D. FRANCIS Joe D. Francis is Assistant Professor of Rural Sociology at Cornell University and Lawrence Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar LAWRENCE BUSCH LAWRENCE BUSCH Busch is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Kentucky Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinio…
The Social Nature of Perception and Knowledge
Carving up the Social World
The use of areal units as units of analysis is widespread in the social sciences. Typically, however, studies employing areal units gloss over the way in which the units were chosen. After illustrating how different theoretical and policy conclusions can be drawn from different lattices, it is asserted that the problem is not methodological but epistemological. “True” relationships are not to be found due to the lack of correlation between proxim…
Property, Paternalism and Power
History, Negotiation, and Structure in Agricultural Research
Perceived Criteria for Research Problem Choice in the Agricultural Sciences-A Research Note
Agriculture policy
Science, Agriculture, and the Politics of Research
Practical Populism
Agricultural biotechnology research
Biotechnology
Irony, tragedy, and temporality in agricultural systems, or, how values and systems are related
Science, Technology, and the Restructuring of Agriculture
Plants, Power, and Profit
The Production of Knowledge and the Production of Commodities
A crucial issue in the theory of technological change-the transformation of knowledge into commodities in agriculture-is examined through the role that technoscience played in the transformation of rapeseed (Brassica campestris and B. napus) from a minor crop used largely for marine lubricants into a major global competitor in edible oil markets. The study is based on a content analysis of the worldwide bibliography of rapeseed. A network approac…
The Global Restructuring of Agro-Food Systems
From Columbus to ConAgra
Journal Article From Columbus to ConAgra: The Globalization of Agriculture and Food. Ed. by Alessandro Bonanno, Lawrence Busch, William H. Friedland, Lourdes Gouveia, and Enzo Mingione. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1994. viii, 294 pp. Cloth, $40.00, ISBN 0-70060660-2. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-7006-0661-0.) Get access David B. Danbom David B. Danbom North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota Search for other works by this author on:…
From Columbus to ConAgra
Rites of Passage
This article extends the concept of symmetry to ethics. Using the case of canola in Canada, the authors argue that grades and standards simultaneously subject humans and nonhumans to rites of passage that test their "goodness. " Then, they further develop a tentative typology of standards. The authors argue that these standards allow something resembling the neoclassical market to be established, create the conditions for economic analysis, and a…
From Columbus to ConAgra
Inquiry for the public good
Making Nature, Shaping Culture
Beyond political economy
This article provides a critical assessment of the traditional political economy approaches in analysis of agricultural globalization. The use of the actor network perspective is suggested to enhance our understanding of the globalization process. To illustrate the applicability of actor network theory to political economy studies, the globalization of the Canadian rapeseed (Brassica rapa and B. napus) industry is analyzed. It is shown that the g…
New Agriculture Biotechnologies
In the contemporary global agrifood system, the emergence of a plethora of new agricultural biotechnologies has radically merged questions of design at the molecular level with those of agricultural change, posing a series of far-reaching social, technical, and ethical consequences and contradictions. With more possible technological paths than ever before, the new biotechnologies have made technology choice central in the discourse over the futu…
Networks and Agricultural Development
Diffusion theory and political economy are the two most common ways by which rural sociologists have explained the widespread use of agricultural innovations. In this paper, we argue, borrowing from science studies and using the empirical case of soybeans in Brazil, that the use of agricultural innovations is better understood as the result of the construction of networks of people and things. Thirty years ago soybean production in Brazil was ins…
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