Seed Schools in Colombia and the Generative Character of Sociotechnical Dissent

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ID19574644
AuthorsNathalia Hernández Vidal (0000-0001-5529-4083, Emory University), Kelly E Moore (0000-0003-3835-7358, Loyola University Chicago), Kelly Moore (0000-0003-0707-3766)
Year2022
Volume8
Issue1
Publication date2022-05-30
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEngaging Science Technology and Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2413-8053 • E-ISSN: 2413-8053
PublisherSociety for Social Studies of Science (4S) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.17351/ests2022.487
OpenAlexW4281832502
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited36

In STS, dissent has typically been understood as resistance, a way of saying “no” that is intended to generate change in discourses, material systems, and forms of law and rule that would then govern those who are aggrieved. Using the case of La Red de Semillas Libres de Colombia (RSL) [Network of Free Seeds of Colombia], this paper builds on another approach most visible in feminist, decolonial, and indigenous STS that examines rebuilding rather than direct resistance. Drawing from interviews and participant observation, we show that RSL’s practices of “generative dissent” are temporally distinctive in three ways. Firstly, RSL’s emphasize knowledge-making in the present, they address bio- and social tempos situated in understandings of both the past and the future. Secondly, RSL re-form the bios revitalizing emotional and social capacities. And finally, they reshape human and more-than-human worlds by invigorating biosocial kinships and university-community epistemic ties

Biosocial theory · Dissent · Epistemology · Generative grammar · Indigenous · Political science · Politics · Situated · Sociology · Sociotechnical system · Digital Education and Society · Feminism, Gender, and Social Issues · Law · Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology · Ecology

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