Republic of plants
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20182648 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Barbara Hahn (0000-0002-4594-609X, Texas Tech University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 229-237 |
| Publication date | 2025-10-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History and Technology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0734-1512 • E-ISSN: 1477-2620 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/07341512.2026.2613458 |
| OpenAlex | W7128163568 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 12 |
The Republic of Plants network researches the histories of agricultural technologies through the conceptual framework of cropscape, a method that breaks open boundaries of periodization and place, direction of historical flow and any limitations on who and what matters in global historical processes. Cropscape denotes the ever-mutating assemblages of non-humans and humans, material, social, and symbolic elements, within which a particular crop in a particular place and time flourishes or fails. Authors choose which elements to include, playing with historical scales and creating narratives to challenge received teleologies of global history: that production and cultivation (methods, products, markets) have grown from small to large scale, from local to global, from pre-modern to modern behavior and interests, from underdevelopment to development; that human history has resulted in the triumph of the West over the Rest, while the Global North has superseded the South, and causes of human history can still be found in the metropole rather than the periphery. Republic of Plants authors investigate well-known crops such as sugar but also entries like millets, milpas, and pineapples. They invite readers into a worldwide, cross-disciplinary conversation among the history of technology and agriculture, economic development and history of capitalism, and global history literatures
Agriculture · Conversation · History of technology · Narrative · Periodization · The Republic · Underdevelopment · World history · Earthquake and Disaster Impact Studies · Plant Molecular Biology Research · Plant Reproductive Biology
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |